Many companies are now planning to bring staff back off furlough (at its peak there were 9.3 million people...
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Cash is King
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like we're in limbo at the moment? We are slowly adjusting to a post (high...
Post Lockdown – What are our predictions for the future?
It’s the end of the (old) world as we know it (and I feel fine) Now I have finished with my review of how...
The true costs of Pay & Display parking
During a recent Red Tiger team day in sunny Southport the team started discussing (slightly ranting) the costs and inconvenience of town centre parking charges. There are many well publicised factors driving the decline in our town centre retail and increased...
Is Your Business Data Driven?
I have been working in Data and Analytics for 17 years and have seen many different ways to manage data and analytics across a business. Working in mature data driven businesses you realise that the legacy of having a lot of data in a business can be as much of a...
Vietnam: A nation of Shopkeepers Going Digital
It is fast approaching 10 years when I was heading to China as part of a market exploratory team for Sainsbury's to see if the supermarket chain could create a sustainable & profitable proposition in the worlds second largest economy. Tesco, with an extensive...
The American Dream?
It is well publicised about the special relationship us Brits have with the United States but how easy does this translate when it comes to retail? Why do some retailers flourish both sides of the pond while others faulter? Do some retailers fall foul of poor economic...
Its Xmas, Xmas, Children Singing, Singing, Church Bells Ringing, Ringing…
I dream of a January 2019 where the news feeds are dominated by positive stories of retailers posting strong Xmas trading figures and looking forward to continued growth in the year ahead. 2018 has largely been dominated by negative stories of closures and the...
Everyone’s going Dark….
A few years ago, everyone was talking about “Dark Stores” and the Brits were the pioneers, before the concept spread to France, central Europe and more recently North America. The term was so widely coined that it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and joined...