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Follow a good retail diet: Where we have spoken before about the need to follow a good diet (in store)...
& Lidl to some extent. Whenever one visits a discount store, typically, I’m amazed at how hard working the colleagues...
The emergence of online shopping, digital and technological development meant that the stores were finished (or so I heard). Yet...
This is an example of a note on the new Mere discount store in Preston from our retail by email...
Boots is a business that has branches everywhere and the smaller stores don’t appear to have any less range than...
Our retail image of the day features Superdrug and their focus on sustainability. There’s a lot to like about Superdrug...
The challenge with living in a post-truth world is that lying, or bending the truth has become an art form,...
Today for our retail image of the day, we look at some elements of COVID19 that we’ll never see scenes...
Our subscribers recently had the privilege(*) of a two parter email that uncovered our particular tales of woe based on...
For today’s retail image of the day, we have Target and their Back to School event. The Minneapolis based outfit is...
Today we focus on Topshop for our retail image of the day. It’s a sad image of mannequins in the...
Today we feature Superdrug on our retail image of the day, with their relatively modern store on a retail park...
Boots has stores everywhere, from larger stores to the smaller pharmacies. Some of which are tiny and barely house a...
Our retail image of the day today features John Lewis and their store in Leeds, indeed, their baby category specifically...
Friday’s image is via Sainsbury’s with their impressive predicting of the future with their food waste reducing in store produced...
This image is via Cole Haan and their ‘sold out’ display in the store near the Rockefeller Centre, New York (no less) which ends...
We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing....
We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing....
We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing,...
I managed to stumble upon a Debenhams in the Bullring recently that was in the final throes of death, with...
Back in 2020, a year that no one wishes to remember, we produced our ‘retail’s best’ advent calendar, charting 25...
We produce a weekly newsletter, via email, entitled “Store Post” that covers all manner of industry issues, challenges, thoughts, and...
Some of you who have followed here for many, many moons will recall our original blog “UK-Retailers” which focused on...
As we enjoyed the yearly pilgrimage to Florida for Disney, Universal and a fair bit of retail therapy (visiting for...
When visiting the Reduced Plastic / Waitrose Unpacked store some weeks ago, I was struck by the customer feedback hub...
We have been busily recording a number of podcasts and building a base of support via Apple podcasts, Spotify and...
I think it’s perhaps indicative of the ‘who can run the least worst shops’ trend that we are seeing in...
So a top 10 from the Jack’s visit yesterday. Lots of press and indeed it’s major news(!) There will be...
Ref: Jack’s – This is a Twitter thread I wrote this morning. A twitter user ‘unrolled it’ to one piece...
A lot will be written this week about the venture by Tesco in to the discount world, by opening Jack’s...
Intriguing that both Andrew Higginson and Terry Leahy were compelled to speak about the past regime of Phillip Clarke in...
It is sad to read that Poundworld are potentially closing up to 100 of their stores as they battle the...
With a recent visit to New York under our belt, capturing another 2,000 images charting the latest and greatest added...
With the rather surprising news that former UK retail veteran Stuart Machin has returned to UK Food retailing after a...
Express Checkout: Toys R Us (UK) have entered administration today after struggling to pay a VAT demand. The chain has...
Express Checkout: Tesco and Booker have ratified their merger / takeover today, with 85% voting in favour of the deal....
Christmas 2017 The Grocery Insight view Introduction The week that was, a huge week of Christmas results and Grocery...
Our newsletter offers unique insight in to the sector and covers all the key headlines in the market, this week...
US Special – Week 35. This week was actually two weeks ago, confused? So am I, but read on! A...
Week 34. The week is slightly delayed thanks to the bank holiday and this being written on a different continent. Next...
Week 33. The week saw more terrible weather harming both BBQ and B&Q sales. Featured this week are Christmas 2016...
Week 32. As a youngster, I always enjoyed fantasy football with Baddiel and Skinner and in particular their feature at...
Quite the exclusive for the Grocery Insight blog and wider email subscribers; with the first look at the new Aldi...
This is an excerpt of the latest Grocery Insight newsletter which covers the UK food retail market extensively, with 2/3...
Here is a teaser of the email newsletter that was released this morning on the subject of Iceland, both their...
I never formally met Sir Ken Morrison, but he was always a bit of a hero of mine. Not only...
With the trends for 2017 out from most of the more professional outfits, it’s time for me to bring my...
This post originally appeared in the subscription-only Grocery Insight newsletter, and has been republished here in full. Happy new year!...
Noteworthy that M&S are row(e)ing back from their international ambitions, closing stores (some of which will be anchors in the...
Throwback Thursday will be a weekly feature trawling the Grocery Insight image archive (now standing at over 60,000 images). First...
Throwback Thursday! The weekly look at the Grocery Insight archives (we have 60,000 + images), today it’s Tesco Watford Extra...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn, and has been republished here in full. So Brexit, who expected that? I think...
Listen to Wednesday’s interview where I speak to Adam Parsons on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Wake Up To Money program...
Back to the future from Tesco? Around the time of the discount emergence and the recession, Tesco launched a number...
The 6Ps of Discount Retailing was developed by Grocery Insight as a model to analyse the Discount channel. Our presentation...
Firstly, credit to Mark Smith for this spot in his local Tesco, it literally is nearly beyond belief in terms...
So as we roll ahead to the second element of the alternative ‘year in store’ awards, the ‘most challenging store’...
So as we leave another year behind, it is time to review the year that was; celebrating the good, bad...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn, and has been republished here in full. Hero lines are quite the Christmas tradition...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn, and has been republished here in full. The Government’s laudable bandwagon jump of the...
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn, and has been republished here in full. A recent visit to Belgium and Holland...
Throwback Thursday (Friday) no.5 (after a brief period off) looks back into the archives from 2013 (August) with the Watford...
Throwback Thursday (Friday) no.4 looks back into the archives from 2011 (July) with the Kirkstall store of the future changes....
Following on from Bishop’s Stortford was a weekend trip ‘darn sarf’ to Chelmsford in July 2013, this was the ‘Super...
Due to the work pressure, finding time to write a good blog each week is becoming a near impossibility, however...
So, a shiny new website equals a shiny new blog too, and thanks to Kurt from the US who came...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Without trying to ensure the Grocery Insight blog becomes somewhat of a tragic obsession of writing solely about Dave Lewis...
Ahead of the strategical announcement by Dave Lewis which is expected within the results update, post Christmas on the blog...
Well done to the Co-Operative Lampeter for their Retail Halloween win for 2014! After the relative success of the Retail...
Plenty more talking to be done on Tesco, but its time to celebrate major events in the UK retail calendar...
Today is 39 (thirty-nine) 4 (four) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight...
Today is 39 (thirty-nine) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 40 (forty) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is ‘Dave-eve’ with one day until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are...
Today is 41 (forty-one) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 42 (forty-two) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 43 (forty-three) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 44 (forty-four) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
A minor break from the ’66’ for Dave Lewis (there are 3 blogs to come!) as the Netto signage has...
Today is 45 (forty-five) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 46 (forty-six) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 47 (forty-seven) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 48 (forty-eight) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 49 (forty-nine) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 50 (fifty) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 51 (fifty-one) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 52 (fifty-two) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 53 (fifty-three) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 54 (fifty-four) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting down to...
Today is 55 (fifty-five) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 56 (fifty-six) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
Today is 57 (fifty-seven) days until Dave Lewis takes the helm at the UK’s biggest retailer. Grocery Insight are counting...
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