Woolworths to make a high street return?
An interesting story in today’s Times about what it claims is Shop Direct’s plan to “bring Woolworths back to the high street”, with “room for...
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Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 2 – North Wales)
Last month I posted photographs of eight former Woolies stores as far apart as Tamworth in Staffordshire and Perth in Scotland. Now, as promised, I’m...
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Whitley Bay’s “upward trend in retail shopping”
Anyone who follows my blog posts will see how frequently I draw from the great resource that is local newspaper websites. With the downturn affecting...
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M&S’s gain is Morrisons’ loss
The news that the current boss of Morrisons, Marc Bolland, is to become the new Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer brings to an end...
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Photos from the 90s – Sheffield’s Castle House Co-op department store
I’ve been sorting through some of my old photos recently – for old, read ‘1990s’. Very few of them have much interest from a retail...
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Alworth the wait? The latest ‘Son of Woolworths’ opens its second shop
Following in the footsteps of Dorchester’s Wellworths, Stornoway’s Wee W and even Wallsend’s Well Worth It , the latest ‘son of Woolworths’ store – Alworths –...
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Hollister’s fictitious brand story – does it matter?
I can’t claim to know much about Abercrombie & Fitch’s sister brand, Hollister, and if I did, I suspect it’s somewhere that might be outside...
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Good shop, bad shop – a lunchtime jaunt in Newcastle city centre
An occasional feature in the print version of Retail Week is ‘Good shop, bad shop’, where a retail commentator writes about two contrasting stores that...
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Photo gallery: more former Woolies around the UK (part 1)
Though I can’t claim to make a habit of visiting six old Woolies stores in the same day (including Houghton-le-Spring, above), I have managed to build up...
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Durham – a rare blip in the Waitrose success story
By and large, Waitrose is very much in the habit of opening stores, rather than closing them – so went wrong with Waitrose’s now-closed Durham branch?
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Newcastle’s Millets among the 89 stores to be closed
Yesterday I commented on the fact that the Millets store at MetroCentre was having a closing down sale; today, I noticed that the branch in...
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Some observations from visiting MetroCentre today
I popped over to MetroCentre this afternoon, and spotted a few things that seemed worthy of blogging about. Millets: Following on from my post last...
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A busy day for retail – M&S, Blacks, and giving GIVe a look
Today’s retail news has arguably been dominated by Marks and Spencer revealing better than expected results, and Blacks Leisure (owner of Millets, as well as its...
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Nice Tucci you again
Wandering along Newcastle’s Grainger Street yesterday afternoon, I was quite surprised to see that the old Tucci fashion store – which closed down probably several...
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Is Apple Store coming to Newcastle’s Eldon Square?
It certainly looks like it, according to the latest, publically available version of the Eldon Square South letting plan.[broken link removed] What’s more, it also appears...
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How many former Woolworths can Graham visit in one day?
How about SIX? Stop one is High Street in Redcar, where the former Woolworths store has recently become a branch of the Yorkshire Trading Company....
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I haven’t seen one of those in a while…
Visiting Redcar today, I was amused to spot a little throwback to the past in the form of an old WHSmith fascia, featuring the once...
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A little bit of Newcastle retail history uncovered
Walking through Newcastle’s Bigg Market area last Sunday, I was interested to see that part of the William Hill bookmaker’s fascia appeared to have dropped off,...
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Retailers needs a web presence that informs and inspires
I was quite chuffed, this morning, to have a short article on web usability published in The Journal. Much of what I wrote is, or...
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Not what I had in mind for the old Newcastle Zavvi store…
When I remarked a couple of weeks ago that Newcastle’s “Monument Mall would surely welcome the arrival of a strong anchor store” following the closure...
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