The Spanish indie retailer with a North East design connection
Many of you will have seen my retail column in the Bdaily last week, where I discussed some of the key ingredients that help to make a...
Read more....Many of you will have seen my retail column in the Bdaily last week, where I discussed some of the key ingredients that help to make a...
Read more....Dorchester’s famous Wellworths may have had to change its name to Wellchester at Shop Direct’s behest, but a store in the Herefordshire town of Ledbury...
Read more....For someone who makes a habit of visiting old Woolworths – and I’ve racked up about 140 so far – there can be few ex-Woolies...
Read more....In recent weeks, new developments in Newcastle, the collapse of TJ Hughes and the ongoing conversion of ex-Netto stores have given me plenty of topics...
Read more....Following on from yesterday’s news regarding Haldanes filing for administration, I understand that the four stores “subject to possible acquisition” [broken link removed] are those in...
Read more....The independent supermarket chain Haldanes looks set to become the latest retail casualty, after filing for an administration order today. In a statement this afternoon,...
Read more....Since first meeting them at the UGO launch press conference back in January, it’s been a pleasure to develop a really good relationship with the...
Read more....Many thanks to Bryan Roberts from Kantar Retail iQ, who let me know via Twitter that the old Woolworths in Pinner, north west London, has recently...
Read more....Following on from my 2009 visit to Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley in Derbyshire, I was able to pay a fleeting visit this festive season to...
Read more....With the collapse of Lewis’s and Robbs owner Vergo Retail being one of the year’s major stories at Soult’s Retail View, it seems fitting to mark...
Read more....Less than three months after acquiring Robbs of Hexham, indie department store operator Beales has wasted no time at all in sprucing up the store...
Read more....Passing through Newcastle city centre yesterday afternoon, I was able to see what was happening with several incoming stores that I’ve blogged about previously. In Clayton...
Read more....This post is something of a first for Soult’s Retail View – a proper book review! Before I talk about the book – which is the...
Read more....It can hardly have escaped anyone’s notice that Rothbury, in Northumberland, has been the news centre of the UK this week, for reasons entirely outside the control...
Read more....It’s always good to hear of a retailer that is rising from the ashes, Wellworths-style, so I was pleased to read in The Appointment magazine...
Read more....My coverage of the upcoming Wooly Minded store in Newcastle’s Clayton Street seems to have prompted quite a bit of interest on Twitter, so –...
Read more....One of the quirks of the recently opened Eldon Square South extension in Newcastle is the contrast in tenant mix between the main St Andrew’s...
Read more....One of the things I love about retail is the way that you can always find obscure links between apparently unrelated places, people and shops – such as...
Read more....A visit to the delightful County Durham market town of Barnard Castle always lifts the spirits, even if the weather when I was last there in...
Read more....It seems like it’s not just me who thinks that Beales taking over Robbs would be a good idea, with today’s Hexham Courant reporting that...
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