Wednesday, September 05, 2012

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Retail of woe: maybe it serves you right
Sydney Morning Herald
Walk into a department store, any department store, and you'll find they're becoming more like goods museums than retail spaces. Acres of products to gawp at, and plenty of time to get online to compare prices, because no one disturbs you. You'll find ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
OFT to scrutinise retail petrol market
Financial Times
The UK's £32bn retail petrol market will come under more regulatory scrutiny after the country's antitrust watchdog launched a preliminary inquiry to examine if consumers are getting a fair deal. The Office of Fair Trading said on Wednesday that it ...
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£360m retail complex given go-ahead
The Press Association
A huge £360 million retail development in the centre of Belfast which could mean up to 3,000 new jobs has been given the go-ahead. The Royal Exchange will be constructed in the rundown north-east quarter of the city, close to Royal Avenue, one of the ...
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Broker snap: UBS upgrades Home Retail to 'buy'
ShareCast
Nevertheless UBS said that it's "still early in the cycle" and upcoming results will likely be mixed: good growth is expected from Next and Dunelm but declines are expected at Kingfisher, Home Retail and Marks & Spencer. However, the broker reckons ...
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the retail organization of the future
Business Insider
One thing's for certain in retail today – it's a brand new world. The old way of doing things just isn't going to cut it. To be ready for newly empowered customers and further increases in costs, we need to think about – and operate – our businesses ...
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Shop vacancy rate monitors: Who is right?
Retail Week
Different shop vacancy rate monitors help illustrate the state of the retail market but when data differs how does the market know which to believe? Why are we talking about this now? The Association of Town Centre Management (ATCM) has accused the ...
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British Retail Narrows The Gap In Olympic Month
Fresh Business Thinking
Ipsos' Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which monitors the volume of shoppers in non-food stores across the UK, recorded a narrowing gap between this year and last. In August 2012, year-on-year figures were only 1.1% down for the country as a whole, much ...
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AutoNation Announces August 2012 Retail New Vehicle Unit Sales of 23213
Stockhouse
5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN), America's largest automotive retailer, today announced that its retail new vehicle unit sales in August 2012, as reported to the applicable automotive manufacturers, totaled 23,213, an increase of 28 ...
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Euro Zone Output Contracts, Retail Sales Drop
123Jump.com
Separately, retail sales in the euro zone declined 0.2% on a monthly basis in July, following a 0.1% gain in June, data released by Eurostat showed. From a month ago, food, drinks and tobacco decreased 0.9% and the non-food sector rose 0.9% in the euro ...
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FTSE100 food retail sector currently un-investable, says Panmure Gordon
Proactive Investors UK
"We estimate that market share capture online will reduce traditional non-food retail sales by £4.3 billion over the next five years, more than double that seen over the previous five. Therefore, adding yet more non-food space in large stores doesn't ...
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AVT Unveils VendStore24: Custom Designed, Self-Service Retail Stores
IT News Online
CORONA, Calif., Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AVT, Inc. (Ticker: AVTC) (www.autoretail.com) announced today that they have developed a new and improved VendStore24 system – an automated self-serve shop that allows brands and retailers to offer ...
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Hotel, retail proposed for 13-acre former theater site in Toledo
Bizjournals.com
The 13-acre site of a former theater in Toledo that has been closed since 2005 is in line for a $25 million redevelopment plan that could include a new hotel with about 114 rooms, the Toledo Blade reports. Key Hotel and Property Management Inc. bought ...
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Shoppers Embrace New Retail Awards
bdaily
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre in Hartlepool has launched The Embrace Retail Awards to recognise outstanding retail experience and customer service. Hundreds of people have already nominated their favourite store, window display or employee.
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Retail sales in Slovakia continue to fall
The Slovak Spectator
Retail sales in Slovakia dropped further in July. According to data from the Slovak Statistics Office (ŠÚ), retail sales in July totalled €1.5 billion, a year-on-year drop of 2 percent. It was the worst year-on-year development in retail sales since ...
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