Category: retail-regeneration
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“The Fight for Retail Independence or Multiple Monotony!”
An interesting article caught my eye today from online research company Onbuy.com. Their survey was comparing the opening and closing of retail outlets by region of the UK, for multiples & independents. It goes to show how things quickly change in life, and in retail in particularly, the most dynamic of industries. Because what…
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“Where there are People there is Retail”
“Where there are people there is retail” however every retail location needs a commercial strategy and an inspirational delivery. Customer traffic is now dictating the location of retail. Freedom to travel and freedom to choose between online and physical shopping, between town and out-of-town, between the familiar and the unusual is changing the landscape of…
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“The Independent Retailer Support Kit”
How town centres, high streets and independent retailers can evolve “Local Destination Stores” because being an independent retailer does not mean you have to be inefficient, unattractive, and uncompetitive. In fact in the fight for retail traffic between competing town centres the role of independents is more critical than ever in creating distinct flavour and personality.…
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“Is Bluewater’s expansion killing Kent’s High Streets?”
Tim Radley, interviewed on Radio Kent as part of its debate on retail in the county. Bluewater Shopping Centre has recently been given planning permission for a number of expansions including a leisure development around its lake complex and the arrival of a new Primark flagship. Already under pressure from the regional super-shopping centre…
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House of Hackney: passionate people producing amazing experiences
To step off Shoreditch High Street into the House of Hackney is a journey into such a wonderful world of sumptuous colour and texture that a visit to Narnia itself would be no more astounding. And that is not to sleight Shoreditch but to extoll the voluptuous virtues of this home emporium that it so…
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Creating a collaborative “Mind-set” to change retail locations
Who’s the real competitor? Who’s the real enemy? The massive changes that have swept across this land and others, the decimation of high streets, town centres and the taking away of the retail heart of communities, though tragic and physically real are the result of a shift in mind-set. The mind-set and shopping patterns of…
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Retail Locations Traffic Drivers: Trust, Friendship & Leadership
Traffic is the only thing that matters when it comes to creating successful and profitable retail destinations. It is the lifeblood that pumps money into the local community, creates vibrancy and confidence and attracts new and successful additional retailers to tempt yet more visitors into what rapidly becomes a positive traffic snowball. This traffic…
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From Independent Store to Local Destination Powerhouse!
Sometimes having your cake and eating it seems to be one of the few things that the retail customer can actually succeed in doing as they stroll the lengths and breadths of Britain’s struggling high streets. There are truly some inspiring and inventive concepts in the world of coffee shops and eateries or at the…
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Tim Radley at the “Placemaking Strategy Conference 2017”
The “Retail Strategy Planning & Physical Store Delivery” Workshop. Tim Radley, will be speaking and addressing specific retail planning problems and questions at the…”Placemaking Strategy Conference”Nottingham Conference Centre. For placemaking managers, city councillors, BID Directors, town planners and all those responsible for the regeneration of town centres & high streets – the simple truth of a…
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Town Centre Retail Regeneration: The Complexity of Delivering Simple Principles
The simple truth of a successful and thriving retail destination is that you need the right assortment of shops and you need each one to be as good as it possibly can be. It doesn’t take the proverbial brain surgeon but it does take a meeting of commercial minds, and the work of many…
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