Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
It’s fair to say that the last couple of months have delivered doom-laden retail headlines of a kind that we probably haven’t seen since the collapse of Woolworths. As ever, though, it’s not all bad news in bricks-and-mortar retail – and one retailer’s doom is often another’s opportunity.
Read more....From designer fashion store Psyche opening in Durham to the city’s M&S closing, April saw plenty of interesting developments in North East bricks-and-mortar retail. Read the latest updates here, as a sample of what you can find in the May issue of my monthly Soult’s Retail Report.
Read more....The news that Beales is to take over the ex-McEwens department store site in Perth, with an expected opening in November, was a surprise on various levels.
Read more....Polish fashion chain Reserved made its UK debut last week, opening in part of the ex-BHS in London’s Oxford Street at the same time as launching online.
Read more....Today – 28 August – represents the one-year anniversary of BHS disappearing from the British high street. So what’s become of its former North East stores?
Read more....In the last two years, we’ve seen Poundland-related openings, closures, rebrands and ownership changes. Here’s a summary of recent events and future plans.
Read more....More details are emerging about the new Days department store concept planned by EWM Group for Carmarthen’s former BHS. So, what do we know so far?
Read more....Decathlon has become the latest retailer to announce that it’s taking over ex-BHS space, with its 18,000 sq ft Intu Uxbridge store set to open this summer
Read more....These updates on October’s North East store openings are a sample of what’s in the upcoming (and inaugural!) issue of my monthly Soult’s Retail Report.
Read more....Value retailer B&M is taking over the prominent 24,000 sq ft ex-BHS in Hartlepool’s Middleton Grange shopping centre, with jobs being advertised from today.
Read more....What qualities have allowed stores like Rutherford’s, Barkers and Browns to thrive? New independent department store Sandersons offers some clues.
Read more....Value fashion retailer Pep&Co has increased its exposure thanks to ITV docusoap Bargain Shop Wars – and is now planning up to 15 new stores this autumn.
Read more....Retail development firm Dransfield invited me to visit its Fox Valley scheme in Sheffield, see the progress, and hear the latest on its plans and lettings.
Read more....Fashion chain Bank became the first major retail collapse of 2015 – but the brand looks to have made a surprise comeback in Ashton-under-Lyne and elsewhere.
Read more....Danish retailer Tiger has confirmed what I expected – the location of its new store in Newcastle’s Intu Eldon Square will indeed be the ex-Foot Locker unit.
Read more....Danish variety chain Tiger is opening a store in Newcastle’s Intu Eldon Square “around mid-November”, and is advertising for sales staff and supervisors.
Read more....Last month I wrote about the impending arrival of new value fashion and homewares chain Pep&Co – and its first store, in Kettering, has now...
Read more....Few consumers will have heard of it yet – for one thing, there’s no Twitter or Facebook presence that I can see – but new value...
Read more....Tesco has today revealed the list of 43 stores that it intends to close – with three North East branches among their number. Eighteen of...
Read more....If you follow my blogs and tweets religiously, you’ll know that I spend a fair chunk of my time travelling up and down the country,...
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The fight to be Woolworths’ heir
January 8, 2010
West Ealing’s surprising former Woolies building
December 13, 2010
