Category: retail strategy
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Defining your ‘Five-year’ Retail Strategy plan.
Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. Creating a balanced organisation, flexible process flows, and a culture for change will benefit you little, unless you channel these attributes correctly into the brightest opportunities. Every retailer will have different opportunities that will depend on the product…
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Build a beautiful customer focused retail proposition.
Extracts from Tim Radley’s 5-star book… ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ How to become an Essential Retailer. The customer used to buy products. Then they bought brands. Today, it is the proposition that the customer buys, and it is what they buy into. The proposition is the ‘complete package’ that the customer experiences with a…
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Are Trump’s tariffs a test of our true appetite for circularity?
in assortment structure planning, circular retailing, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion, fast fashion, internationalisation, meaning in the retail madness, product suppliers, re-sell, recycling, renting, repair, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, sustainabilityThe continuing trade wars led by Trump’s tariffs have the stock markets tumbling, whilst manufacturers, producers and retailers are re-calculating their plans to continue turning a profit, or even to survive. We have governments throwing out ethical & sustainable policies as they scramble to get the best trading deals for each country. And we have…
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Is it easier to sell as ‘a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ than to build a new reputation?
The recent announcement that the Boohoo fashion group is being re-launched as the Debenhams Group is riddled with more irony than a Shakespearean play. But firstly, the purchasing of the key assets of one of the UK’s most loved department stores was undoubtedly a stroke of genius by Boohoo. Even at its demise it was…
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