by Linda Ward | Nov 11, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Retail trading, Sustainability
We live in an uncertain world – and as every advertisement seems to say “these are challenging times.” The list of things we don’t have control over is long and a bit frightening: the pandemic, Brexit, the outcome of the US election to name but a few. Retailers...
by Linda Ward | Aug 5, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, Covid19, e-commerce, Marketing, Retail trading
Now that retailers have reopened, albeit in an altered way, will retailers drop their online efforts? How can you move your retail business from a bricks and mortar store to online? How do you decide what online elements will work for your business? And what are some...
by Linda Ward | Jul 15, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading
To say that the current retail environment is challenging is a huge understatement. Having been closed for nearly three months, most bricks and mortar fashion retailers only reopened a few weeks ago. Many non-essential retailers were closed for 12 weeks during the...
by Linda Ward | Jun 24, 2020 | Comment, Covid19, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability
The media have been reporting about the demise of bricks and mortar retail and the retail apocalypse for the last couple of years. The long anticipated retail apocalypse is definitely here now, it’s galloped up on us and has overtaken a lot of retailers. The global...
by Linda Ward | May 21, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, General, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Top Tips
Restarting Retail is a small phrase but has really big implications. As restrictions begin to lift over the next few weeks retailers are putting together their plans for reopening their shops and stores. There is a lot of talk about a “new normal” and that is what we...
by Linda Ward | Jan 24, 2020 | Comment, Consumers, Irish Retail, Retail trading, Sustainability, sustainablefashion
In November I attended the Westminster Business Forum on Sustainability, Ethics and the UK Fashion Industry. It was a really thought provoking morning. After the event I tweeted that my takeaway in three words are: Transparency Scalability Collaboration I’ll be...
