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Carphone confirms closure of its 11 UK Best Buy stores – so what went wrong?

Graham Soult November 07, 2011 Overseas, Property, Retail Parks, Specialist Retailers 4 Comments

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Best Buy, Rotherham (3 Nov 2011). Photograph by Graham Soult

Best Buy, Rotherham (3 Nov 2011)

Carphone Warehouse has this morning confirmed that it will close its 11 big-box Best Buy stores across the UK, subject to employee representative consultation, putting 1,100 jobs at risk.

The first store, in Thurrock, … Continue Reading

Newcastle retail in good health as design of 114,000 sq ft Primark is revealed

Graham Soult July 28, 2011 Fashion Stores, Property 5 Comments

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3DReid's proposal for the remodelled Primark/ex-BHS building

3DReid's proposal for the remodelled Primark/ex-BHS building

Interesting retail things always seem to happen on Tyneside while I’m on holiday! This time, I returned from Slovenia yesterday – hence the lack of recent blog posts – to find that the planning application for Newcastle’s new Primark flagship has been submitted while I’ve been away.

While the news of Primark’s … Continue Reading

Radical Dalziel & Pow design for four-level Newcastle BHS

Graham Soult June 22, 2011 Fashion Stores, Property, Retail History 3 Comments

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How the new BHS will look. Image by Dalziel & Pow

How the new BHS will look. Image by Dalziel & Pow

Plans for Northumberland Street’s new BHS store have been submitted to Newcastle City Council, and propose a more radical than expected transformation of the … Continue Reading

Newcastle city centre updates – Currys, Cotswold and Clinton’s

Graham Soult August 06, 2010 Property, Shopping Centres 5 Comments

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New Currys and PC World, Northumberland Street, Newcastle (6 Aug 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

New Currys and PC World, Northumberland Street, Newcastle (6 Aug 2010)

Heading into Newcastle today for a much-needed haircut, I had my usual wander around to see what was happening,  retail property-wise.

In Northumberland Street, the new combined Currys and PC World now boasts its signage ahead of its opening on Thursday (12 … Continue Reading

Newhaven in East Sussex set to be the next Alworths stop

Graham Soult August 05, 2010 Property, Shopping Centres, Woolworths 5 Comments

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Former Woolworths and new Alworths site, Newhaven (17 Mar 2010). Photograph by Paul Gillett

Former Woolworths and new Alworths site, Newhaven (17 Mar 2010). Photograph by Paul Gillett

The BT Phone Book is now listing an Alworths store at 14 High Street in Newhaven, East Sussex – the town’s former Woolworths unit. 

There is no further confirmation as yet, but the store … Continue Reading

Currys and B&Q think compact as the retail park heads to the high street

Graham Soult June 22, 2010 Brands, Home and DIY, Property 2 Comments

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Upcoming PC World and Currys store in Northumberland Street, Newcastle (17 Jun 2010). Photograph by Graham Soult

Upcoming PC World and Currys store in Northumberland Street, Newcastle (17 Jun 2010)

I was curious to read Retail Week’s recent article about the electricals retailer DSGi trialling a small-size dual fascia Currys and PC World store at Bluewater, following its successful introduction of two-in-one megastores … Continue Reading