How discounters are filling the spaces abandoned by supermarkets.
The UK’s cost-of-living crisis is familiar to us all now, but it continues to drive creativity among retailers.
Why even online brands reach out for physical space eventually.
A lot of the most visible innovation in retail over the last decade or so has been online.
A ray of sunshine from improved consumer confidence.
There has been some genuinely positive news for UK retailers this week in the shape of improved consumer confidence figures.
If retail reputations are damaged by a minimum wage scandal, just think what the next food safety crisis could mean.
It’s hard to credit, but some of the UK’s biggest retailers are at the top of a shameful list.
The five consumer behaviour changes that retailers need to know about.
Consumers are shopping less often. They may spend more on a ‘big shop’ but make fewer top-up visits, for example.
Theft is a growing problem for retailers – and not just because of the cost.
Retailers have a column marked ‘shrinkage’ on their profit & loss account. Shrinkage is shorthand for theft
Consumers are demanding that retailers cut back on plastic…
Mars Bars are getting new packaging, using paper-based wrappers that can be more easily recycled than plastic.
It’s fair to say that inflation has had retailers worried for some time. But it feels as though that concern is reaching something of a fever pitch right now.
There have been calls to take action to prevent retailers from ‘profiteering’ by raising prices further during the ongoing inflation crisis.
Have we seen the end of the big budget anchor store? Hopefully not – but they are having to change with the times and some are finding the process difficult.
In the pre-internet days of the 1990s, no shopping centre would be complete without a couple of anchor stores.
As a nation, we love to wring our hands in despair over what is happening to the high street.
This isn’t a new thing. While today we worry that online retailers are destroying the high street, we were already banging on 25 years ago.