Soult's Retail View

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  Soult's Retail View is a blog by me, Graham Soult, taking a wide-ranging look at the UK retail industry. I'm a retail consultant based in Gateshead, so my posts often (but not exclusively) have a North East flavour.
  
  Particular areas of interest include new developments and store openings, department stores, supermarkets, co-operatives and former Woolworths stores, usually discussed in the context of their retail history and illustrated with photographs from my travels. Interviews with retailers I know or work with feature in the Retailer Q&A thread.
  
  Alongside (and feeding into) the blog, I run CannySites.com, a web directory business that helps consumers and retailers find each other; and CannyInsights.com, offering retail-related research, consultancy, copywriting amd social media support. If you feel that my knowledge can help your business, do drop me a line.
  
  
  
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  • Asda’s sale of surplus Netto stores: who gets what in the North East (74)
  • Is this shop in Shields Road, Byker an old Woolies? (27)
  • Finding old Woolworths stores in unlikely places, courtesy of The New Bond (25)
  • From High Street Ken to High Holborn – more of London’s long-lost Woolies (25)
  • Will UGO back? Checking out Britain’s newest supermarket chain (21)
  • Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 1) (16)
  • How many former Woolworths can Graham visit in one day? (15)
  • Woolies Winter Wonderland… (15)
  • Putting Asda’s Price Guarantee to the test – in an ex-Netto Asda Supermarket (15)
  • I haven’t seen one of those in a while… (14)

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  In December 2009, global media intelligence company Cision ranked Soult’s Retail View at #2 in its list of the UK’s top ten retail blogs.
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