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: Save the High Street deserves a pat on the back for making so much useful information freely available to retailers, even if they aren’t members. Given that it costs nothing to join and there are special offers for those with independent local shops, I would have thought that being a part of
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Selfridges claims that the pre-Halloween launch of its Christmas window in London’s Oxford Street is a first for any department store worldwide. Some 1,000 metres of red velvet have been used for its ‘With Love From’ theme. Inflation has been blamed for a fall in UK retail sales in September. The Office for National Statistics
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According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), Christmas on the internet was alive with the sound of ringing tills. This boom time, according to Sales Commando, reinforces the need to have online sales and support staff suitably equipped to deal with an equivalent rise in customer enquiries and, inevitably, customer complaints. The time bomb, according
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