High street – Page 60
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News
10p-per-item supermarket secures permanent Dover high street site
The supermarket was created to bridge the gap between food poverty and normality
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Boots claims world first with Sales Assist sales app
IBM is also “talking to the big four” in UK grocery about its Quickpay app
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HMV and Tesco could soon get the entertainment rug pulled from under their feet
Physical media’s performance is almost entirely underpinned by music and video games
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Holland & Barrett to push through 5% supplier cost reduction
Retailer says reductions will fund growth in UK and overseas
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Home Retail Group profits slump but Argos digital up 7%
Company incurred an “exceptional goodwill impairment charge” of £852m
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High street retailers lack e-commerce guidance, says research
DHR International says just 5% of British high street retail chiefs have a background in e-commerce
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Analysis & Features
As BHS is saved, doesn't it just show rents are too high?
Blaming landlords isn’t fair. In fact, despite the growth of online shopping the high street is increasingly healthy
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WH Smith to install digital advertising screens in 100 stores
Retailer unveiled first 55” LCD screen in Harrow over Easter
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Comment & Opinion
Post Office changes are a mistake
Busy, viable and truly local businesses are having a gun held to their head
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Boots begins removing confectionery from its till areas
Sweets to be removed from all Boots’ checkouts from the middle of April
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Government suffers defeat on Sunday Trading reform
MPs voted 317 to 286 against the proposals to relax Sunday Trading laws
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Government faces Sunday Trading defeat as SNP opposes
Keep Sunday Special campaign says vote is still too close to call
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Keep Sunday Special campaign to mount legal challenge
KSS says it has not entered the prospect of legal action lightly but there were “fundamental flaws” in the process the government had taken
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Retail leaders slam government for business rates "bragging"
BRC warns 40,000 high streets stores will close by 2020 without rates reduction
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Costa Express chalks-up location number 5,000
Costa Express is growing at a rate of 70 new machines a month
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Retailers attack 'desperate' Sunday trading plans
Retail groups claim government has relied too heavily on evidence from 1970s Sweden
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Comment & Opinion
How will Black Friday evolve?
Black Friday poses opportunities for grocers in that it is an event that can provide a basis to sell complementary product
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News
Boots to axe up to 350 UK managerial jobs
Boots is proposing cuts to between 300 and 350 management roles in the UK as the high street chain continues its plans to simplify the business.
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Comment & Opinion
The Town That Took on the Taxman: SME tax pain, close up
The small business owners of Crickhowell were fuming in The Town That Took on the Taxman