On London’s Oxford Street yesterday a man was stood on a box with a loud hailer and a wearing a board proclaiming in big bold letters: “panic no more”. Through the loud hailer he was proclaiming to all the shoppers walking along the Street that “the recession was over” and that “it was safe to [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
What a difference a year makes
New York in early January would never seem to be the most hospitable of months to visit this great City. The winds that whip through the Avenues and Streets can cut right through you. A year ago, when retailers converged on New York for the NRF convention, the mood matched the weather as the full [...]
New beginnings?
Signing off my last blog before the Christmas holiday I said that prospects for the New Year could be made or broken by the consumer and their continuing capacity to surprise. And surprise they did here in the UK with retailers reporting very strong trading which got even stronger with the start of their clearance [...]
