Spare a thought today for retailers in the UK. Not just because at the time of writing the sun is shining and the England football team are due to play a critical game this afternoon, thus conspiring on both levels to keep people out of the stores. The main reason to feel sympathy for UK [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
Changing before our eyes
Visiting New York last week for the Global Department Store Summit there was no doubt that US retailing has its confidence back. Despite May’s retail sales figures falling back, the overall feeling at the conference and in other meetings with retailers was that the sector was moving out of the recession. As if to reinforce [...]
