Archived blog posts (2009 to 2018) about shops on the high street and online, by North East-based retail consultant Graham Soult
Map blooper stories are always good value, whether it’s because they’ve erased Wales or located Shrewsbury in the middle of a river. Now, potential John Lewis Partners in Lincolnshire...
Read more....The much-blogged-about Swedish hardware retailer Clas Ohlson published its sales figures for June yesterday. What’s interesting is that sales for the UK are now being stripped out from those of Finland,...
Read more....Weekly updates on the status of Waitrose at Hopwood Park Services on the M42 have become something of a habit lately, thanks to the regular...
Read more....A few days ago, in talking about the closure of the adjacent Oil & Vinegar store, I referred to the Eldon Square Waitrose shop as...
Read more....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?
Read more....Well, installing WordPress was easy enough – thanks Matthew! I’ve just got to think of some interesting retail-related things to say now. Typically, I had...
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A little bit of Newcastle retail history uncovered
August 28, 2009
Familiar discount names in Staffordshire’s former Woolies stores
January 10, 2011
