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Is Charity Retail booming through investment in retail technology?
Recent reports have highlighted how well Charity Retail sector is doing. The numbers of shops are on the increase and sales are on the up, so what is fuelling this increase? Many charity shops have invested in ‘high street retail’
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Can High Street Events Change Retail?
The recent Record Store Day (that promotes independent record stores with in store gigs, exclusive releases and so forth) is becoming a common theme on the high street as different sectors of retail come together to promote their ‘cause’ and
Read the full storyTags Click and collect, Independent Retailer Month, Multi-Channel approach, Record Store Day
There’s More to Cloud Computing than Cost
This year’s Retail Business Technology Expo at Earls Court, in London, saw presentations from a variety of businesses and I used the show to discuss the use of cloud computing with Mike Pink, Head of Retail at Wembley Stadium, a
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Why today’s IT department is tomorrow’s marketing department
What will IT stand for in a few years time? Idea’s Team, Intelligence Team…or maybe marketing will be rebranded and swallow IT completely – ‘markiting’. Ok, this may sound extreme, but much of today’s IT department may well reside in
Read the full storyTags Catherine Middleton, Cloud computing, IT Department, Marketing, Reiss
Black Friday…changing UK retailing practices?
The wave of hype and excitement is palpable, even this side of the Atlantic, as Black Friday looms ahead! For those that don’t know, Black Friday is the first shopping day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Thanksgiving typically falls
Read the full storyTags Amazon, Black Friday, ecommerce, retailers
Multi-Channel Retail is finished
Multi-channel retail is fast becoming extinct as the lines blur between each sales channel, and as retailers evolve into cross-channel retailers. First there was retail, then mail order, then ecommerce. Some retailers managed to combine the three sales channels with
Read the full storyTags Argos, Aurora, Cloud Based Retail Systems, Cloud computing, cross channel retail, multi-channel retail, PayPal, Shutl
Censoring Charity Retailers on the High Street?
Should the government dictate what types and numbers of shops are on the high street? This may seem extreme but erstwhile saviour of Charity Retail, Mary Portas, has recently suggested that the number of charity shops on the high street
Read the full storyTags charity retail, Charity Retail Association, Civil Society, high street, Mary Portas, Primark, Selfridges
Plan for the Worst
It is hard to imagine that the riots that have been sweeping England could actually happen. So as individuals and businesses how can you plan for disasters like these, to ensure your retail business can have some continuity? There are
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Power to the People!
Is there anything as powerful as the internet? It has brought down governments, businesses and aided in major civil unrest. Look at the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa as governments fall and people are mobilised by the
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Can Charities Rely on Gift Aid to plug the funding shortfall?
Following the announcement that more than 2,000 charities across England are having their funding cut or withdrawn by local councils they now need to find new funding streams. Local government minister Bob Neil was quoted as saying the government was
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