Retail has hit the headlines again with the news of Mike Ashley taking over House of Fraser. His aspiration is to make it the “Harrods of the High Street”. Changing the direction of any big company is like plotting a new course for a super-tanker. It’s slow and takes...
Don’t you just love this brilliant weather we’re having? The sun is wonderful but if you are a shop owner, it shows up all the dusty, neglected corners that seem to have just appeared. However, good retail standards are not just about having a clean shop – although...
The retail apocalypse is being predicted by analysts on a depressingly frequent basis. Perhaps that’s why an article from the Retail Gazette in the UK caught my eye recently with the headline, “Independent retail store openings soar as major chains face downturn”. UK...
“Retail is not dead,” Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation (US) declared recently. Conor Pope’s article in last Saturday’s Irish Times had the opposite headline and prophecy – Death of the Irish Shop. However, I see the retail market as...
So what’s this event really about? Where did it spring from and why has it taken off? Black Friday was the term coined by the Philadelphia police to describe the day after Thanksgiving “when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded into the city in advance of...
Name a shop in Ireland and who do you think of? Penneys, Dunnes or Brown Thomas? Or TK Maxx, Marks and Spencer or Louis Vuitton? The first group are large well known Irish retailers, the second group are international companies or brands. But it may surprise you to...
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