Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
Background Back in April, Newcastle-based influence analysis platform Lissted prompted quite a lot of reaction when it published its list of the 250 most influential...
Read more....It was a pleasure to speak at Enterprise Made Simple’s Flippin’ Good Networking event in Stockton last week, sharing my online marketing tips – on web...
Read more....If you’ve read the news headlines over the last couple of days, you could be forgiven for thinking that Woolworths is about to come back...
Read more....A year and a half after 21 North East stores closed following Game’s collapse into administration, two of those shops – in Grainger Street, Newcastle and...
Read more....Newcastle’s iconic Fenwick department store is rightly known for its annual Christmas window – which can’t, scarily, be very far off making its appearance for 2013....
Read more....Regular readers will know that I visit a lot of British high streets – including more than 400 different ones in the last four years...
Read more....Though my consumer directory business, CannySites.com, showcases home, garden and holiday retailers from across the UK, I’m always particularly pleased when I get to work with successful...
Read more....On the same day as the ONS has revealed an unexpected fall in UK retail sales during a snowy January, one retailer – the Swedish hardware...
Read more....As you may have seen already, I was recently recruited as a Business Expert by the well-known Newcastle-based business software and services provider Sage. Set...
Read more....After sharing my practical tips on creating a great retail website at last year’s Autumn Fair, it was a pleasure to be invited back to the E-commerce...
Read more....After helping retailers “get content with their web content” at last year’s Autumn Fair International, I’m delighted to have been invited back to give the...
Read more....If one theme has emerged clearly from my Retailer Q&A series to date, it’s that modern retail businesses can’t really afford to ignore the Internet: whether...
Read more....Whether you’re running a high-street shop, an online store or both, what are the ingredients that you need to create a really effective content website...
Read more....Through both my work at CannySites.com and my blogging, I get to see an awful lot of independent retailers’ websites, including the good, the bad...
Read more....While former Woolworths up and down the country now play host to Poundland and B&M Bargains – with just the occasional Waitrose – the Surrey town...
Read more....I’ve often commented on Hexham’s very low retail vacancy rate, and the fact that the town’s empty units rarely stay empty for long. Arrivals in...
Read more....Think of online retail, and the chances are that the big-name players, such as Amazon and Asos – or perhaps a multichannel powerhouse like John...
Read more....Among all the retail gloom that the newspapers seem to like writing about, it was refreshing to read last week that Browns of York is to...
Read more....Clas Ohlson, the Swedish hardware retailer, has revealed that it is pushing on with plans for a UK transactional website, with an expected launch in the spring....
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What does 2012 hold for Newcastle city centre?
January 4, 2012
Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 2 – North Wales)
November 22, 2009
Durham – a rare blip in the Waitrose success story
October 7, 2009
