The Return Of Price Wars: What Impact For Suppliers?
‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going’ is a good way to describe how supermarkets responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and, indeed,...
Getting back to basics when entering your market for the first...
Having let the genie out of the bottle (see editorial), it is key to enhance your relative competitive appeal by using it as a...
Looking Ahead from Lockdown – Dealing with a Genie Let Out...
Trying to work out future implications in business is never easy (think 35 years managing NamNews, for those out there with longer memories...). However,...
Bricks, Clicks And Marketplaces – The New FMCG Playbook
Amazon knows the importance of retail’s new holy trinity: bricks, clicks and marketplaces – but how can fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands ensure...
Factoring Amazon Own Label into your business
Given the trauma and uncertainty of four months in lockdown, when a little stability would be preferable, the idea of factoring a deeper relationship...
Amazon Own Label Food, the inevitable test of a retail brand…?
Amazon’s success in establishing a truly consumer-centric online brand in most non-food categories, based upon a multi-product/multi-service dynamic relationship with its consumer-base, it follows...
How to say ‘No’ in Negotiation
Given UK retailers’ need to halt the march of the discounters in the coming price war, fought in an unprecedented recession, it is imperative...
Covid-19 Lessons For The Retail Customer Experience
After non-essential retailers opened their doors for the first time in three months, a very different picture is emerging for retailers across the board...
A Price War to End All Price Wars…?
Of all retailers, it could be said that lockdown has provided UK food retailers with an opportunity to build a war chest that will...
Five Post Covid-19 Consumer Trends You Really Need To Know
Coronavirus has changed everything. From how we shop, work and socialise to our attitudes towards mental health and the environment. We’ve become more cautious...