All posts tagged "Shops & Shopping"
Shopping is History
A list of retailers and businesses with numerous branches that have entered administration and/or rescued and/or downsizing since 2003 and before. ABC and Year
The River Island Saga
(2025 Aug) – The River Island saga is a stark reminder of the risk run when large landlords relax their investment policies that they apply to small businesses. Small businesses that are incorporated are normally expected to provide a personal guarantor when leasing premises, yet somehow the same strict approach is not required of multiple […]
Brent Cross Shopping Centre
(2025 Jun ) – News that Hammerson have bought Standard Life’s (Abrdn) 95% interest in the Brent Cross Shopping Centre in NW London and are now working on buying from another a further 3% interest so as to own 100%, led me to read about the Centre on Wikipedia. I know a lot of about […]
Selling online: how to lose a customer
(2025 May) – Revenge is sweet. I have a natural talent for relationship marketing. Relationship is about help: help is instinctive. Helping yourself, helping others. We form, develop, and maintain relationships to help in some way, and at some level of understanding. Help is unconditional, but in business it is conditional, help usually in exchange […]
Negotiation – restoring the balance of power
(2013 Dec) Notwithstanding Reed Personnel Services plc v American Express Ltd [1996] wherein the court said it is “not good for the tenant to say what is good for the landlord” many tenants are fond of negotiating as if they were the landlord. Although technically cutting no ice, it’s an approach that can succeed when […]
High Street carnage
(2012 Sep) All this carnage on the High St must be causing problems for internet companies – where are people going to go in the future to look at stuff before they buy it?
The Future for Secondary Shops
(1984 Dec) – The historic development of shopping centres makes fascinating reading. Originally, as people went to market, so came permanent shops. In the post-war housing boom, shops started going to the people and even today, new council housing estates boast a block of shops. The radical change in socio-economic patterns, and the real decline […]
Company News
(1984 Dec) – It cannot come as much surprise to learn that Motorist Discount Centre, with some 300 shops selling motor accessories, has gone into receivership. With the notable exception of Kwik-Save, the northern-based supermarket group, nominal capital commitment to shop fitting is often a sign of a short-term trading philosophy. The acquisition of Cullens, […]