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John Lewis Bristol and the city’s changing retail landscape
John Lewis Bristol. Photograph by Mattbuck4950 Perhaps it’s a reflection of my status as a retail nerd that one of the first things I usually do on Friday mornings is check out the John Lewis...
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Not what I had in mind for the old Newcastle Zavvi store…
Newcastle's Zavvi store in happier times. Photograph by Mankind 2k When I remarked a couple of weeks ago that Newcastle’s “Monument Mall would surely welcome the arrival of a strong anchor store”...
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Retailers needs a web presence that informs and inspires
Image by Zoran 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 at least should be, common sense: essentially, the need...
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A Woolies twist to every story
Former Zavvi, Newcastle (27 Sep 2009) Well, that’s a surprise! I’ve only just discovered that I’ve been photographing and blogging about a former Woolworths store – here, and more recently here –...
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Card Factory lined up for Newcastle’s Northumberland Street
Typical Card Factory fascia Newcastle City Council has recently received a planning application for the “display of internally illuminated fascia sign and non illuminated projecting sign to front...
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Newcastle’s Wooly Minded store opening – more details about “the knitter’s...
Wool display in the North Shields Wooly Minded (18 Jun 2010) My coverage of the upcoming Wooly Minded store in Newcastle’s Clayton Street seems to have prompted quite a bit of interest on Twitter, so –...
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Newcastle update: Wooly Minded and Card Factory open; Bank on the way
Wooly Minded, Clayton Street, Newcastle (24 Jul 2010) Passing through Newcastle city centre yesterday afternoon, I was able to see what was happening with several incoming stores that I’ve blogged...
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Putting today’s John Lewis sales drop in perspective
John Lewis Oxford Street, London Given how long it’s been since the weekly trading figures for John Lewis department stores last recorded a year-on-year fall in sales, it’s little wonder that the 2.2%...
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Celebrating Britain’s indie department stores: Atkinsons, Banburys and Barkers
Browns' iconic York store (17 Jul 2010) 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 open a new department...
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Twenty-one North East stores close immediately as Game collapses
Game in Sunderland's High Street West - now closed (13 Mar 2012) Twenty-one Game and Gamestation shops in the North East are among the 277 stores that have closed immediately following Game Group’s...
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L’Occitane en Provence heads to Newcastle’s Eldon Square
L’Occitane shop in Mestni trg, Ljubljana, Slovenia (26 Jul 2011) L’Occitane en Provence, the upmarket beauty products retailer, is to open a standalone shop in Newcastle’s Eldon Square next month....
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Newcastle roundup: retail lettings remain active as Cath Kidston signs and...
Cath Kidston, St Ives, Cornwall (20 Feb 2011) Cath Kidston is to open a standalone store in Newcastle city centre, it has been revealed. The upmarket clothing, accessories, bags and homeware retailer –...
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Cladding goes up on Newcastle’s Primark as new city centre developments take...
Primark, Newcastle (30 Oct 2012) The outside of Newcastle’s enlarged Primark is finally starting to gain its funky cladding, as the Northumberland Street store gets ready for its planned opening. Since...
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Victoria’s Secret heading to Newcastle’s Monument Mall – if Hammerson’s...
Poster showing Victoria’s Secret at Monument Mall, Newcastle (3 Mar 2013) Newcastle is set to host one of the UK’s first branches of US lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret – if new posters around...
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Fenwick Newcastle’s autumn window impresses – but WHSmith opposite falls short
Autumn window at Fenwick, Newcastle (14 Oct 2013) Newcastle’s iconic Fenwick department store is rightly known for its annual Christmas window – which can’t, scarily, be very far off making its...
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Exclusive: Booths takes first steps into North East with own-label product...
Booths tea and coffee in Fenwick Newcastle (25 Apr 2017) Shoppers in the North East of England can access Booths-branded products for the first time, after a small collection appeared in the Food Hall...
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