Alan Monahan writes: If you run a small independent gift shop I’m sure you’ll have some customers who envy what you do. They figure that if you pass the time of day with nice people, selling them pretty things, it’s not a bad way to earn a living. They don’t know the half of it,
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Alan Monahan writes: Fed up with reading downbeat pre and post-holiday stories about footfall and predicted sales, I turned in desperation to Amazon Echo, my new Christmas toy, to find out if the future looked brighter for retailers. Surely the all-knowing Alexa would be able to tell me if shop owners could expect economic salvation
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Alan Monahan writes: I suppose that Janet Street-Porter could be placed in the Marmite category: you either love her or hate her. Me? I think she’s okay. In fact, I always read her column in the i newspaper on Saturdays. I’m not sure that Janet would class herself as a retail expert. But Clarion Events
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I was pleased to hear that the government is “committed to switching business rates indexation from RPI [retail prices index] to CPI [consumer prices index] from 2020”. More worrying is that legislation will be introduced “in due course”, so let’s hope these aren’t weasel words. The reform could save organisations £1 billion. As many large
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