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How can retailers make more cash? (Peter Blakemore interview)

Independent retailers can win against supermarket convenience stores by offering cafe-style food, connecting with their community and focusing on “shopper missions”. This advice comes from Peter...

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Can doctors stop people born after 2000 from buying tobacco?

Doctors have voted to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000. The British Medical Association (BMA) will now push the Government to bring in the ban, which would mean that in the...

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What can retailers learn from The Curve?

A few months ago Nick Shanagher reviewed The Curve by Nicholas Lovell. He said: “The Curve is a book that will help you to think about your business differently and particularly about how to think...

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Tomorrow’s world: explore the future of retail

How will you be running your store in 10 year's time? How will your customers pay you? And are Amazon drones and 3d printers set to change the face of UK retail? RN put these questions and more to...

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Come Shop With Me is back!

Next week Retail Newsagent’s Come Shop With Me competition returns to the magazine, pitting three great independent retailers and their stores against each other. Find out what happened in our 12...

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Scotland decides: exclusive interview with Labour’s small business minister...

Just had a fascinating conversation with Toby Perkins MP about the independence vote. Here’s the key points: He, like many, believes that economic chaos might be the consequence of a yes vote: “There...

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Give retailers more respect – they’ve earned it

At 6am on Monday, I spent an hour playing shopkeepers with my two-year-old daughter. It’s her favourite game and involves a trolley of plastic groceries, money, receipts and a till with a card reader...

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Growing sales by stepping back in time

Harj Dhasee, one of our expert retailer columnists, focuses on how he’ll be hitting this and next year’s sales targets. On February 16 for two weeks my shop is having a revamp as we switch it over to...

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Post Offices launch e-petitions to fight for survival

Retailers have taken to the virtual world in a desperate bid to save their very real post offices. Two retailers from two very different stores in Stoke-on-Trent are urging local residents to support...

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Lessons from Jim Sinegal

After starting work at FedMart as a bagger in 1954, Jim Sinegal discovered that he loved the retail business, and quickly worked his way up to become the company's executive vice president. He then...

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How can you find the hidden values of retail?

Christine Hope, one of our seven expert retailer columnists, asks how you can find the hidden values of retail. Your accountant vs. your community - I’m looking for retailers’ help to measure the...

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Follow Tesco’s lead and trim your wine range

“The idea is not to cut the range to a certain size…but ensure that Tesco has the right selection of wines for customers, in the right stores and at the right price”. So said Tesco last week,...

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How can retailers make more cash? (Peter Blakemore interview)

Independent retailers can win against supermarket convenience stores by offering cafe-style food, connecting with their community and focusing on “shopper missions”. This advice comes from Peter...

View Article


Can doctors stop people born after 2000 from buying tobacco?

Doctors have voted to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000. The British Medical Association (BMA) will now push the Government to bring in the ban, which would mean that in the...

View Article

What can retailers learn from The Curve?

A few months ago Nick Shanagher reviewed The Curve by Nicholas Lovell. He said: “The Curve is a book that will help you to think about your business differently and particularly about how to think...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tomorrow’s world: explore the future of retail

How will you be running your store in 10 year's time? How will your customers pay you? And are Amazon drones and 3d printers set to change the face of UK retail? RN put these questions and more to...

View Article

Come Shop With Me is back!

Next week Retail Newsagent’s Come Shop With Me competition returns to the magazine, pitting three great independent retailers and their stores against each other. Find out what happened in our 12...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Scotland decides: exclusive interview with Labour’s small business minister...

Just had a fascinating conversation with Toby Perkins MP about the independence vote. Here’s the key points: He, like many, believes that economic chaos might be the consequence of a yes vote: “There...

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Give retailers more respect – they’ve earned it

At 6am on Monday, I spent an hour playing shopkeepers with my two-year-old daughter. It’s her favourite game and involves a trolley of plastic groceries, money, receipts and a till with a card reader...

View Article

Growing sales by stepping back in time

Harj Dhasee, one of our expert retailer columnists, focuses on how he’ll be hitting this and next year’s sales targets. On February 16 for two weeks my shop is having a revamp as we switch it over to...

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