Soult's Retail View

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  Soult's Retail View is a blog by me, Graham Soult, a market researcher and online marketing specialist based in Gateshead.
  
  The blog's focus is analysis of the UK's retail industry and retail history, often with a North East flavour, and illustrated using my own photographs. Particular areas of interest include department stores, supermarkets, and former Woolworths stores. [more]
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• Most Commented

  • Is this shop in Shields Road, Byker an old Woolies? (14)
  • Finding old Woolworths stores in unlikely places, courtesy of The New Bond (11)
  • Woolies Winter Wonderland… (9)
  • Robbs and Joplings owner Vergo Retail in administration (9)
  • Vergo Retail – the saviour of unloved Co-op department stores? (8)
  • Alworth the wait? The latest ‘Son of Woolworths’ opens its second shop (8)
  • Newcastle gets Hollister, Tesco Express, new Next (8)
  • Former Woolworths stores – status update (7)
  • Hollister’s fictitious brand story – does it matter? (7)
  • From Stanley to Spennymoor – another gallery of North East former Woolies stores (7)

• In the News

  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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