Given the inevitable drift of business to new delivery systems like downloading, in categories such as DVD sale and rental, along with retailing of...

How the GSCOP impacts non-food categories Strictly speaking, the new Groceries Supply Code Of Practice (GSCOP), which came into being on the 4th February 2010,...

In the last article, we floated the idea of suppliers treating independent and specialist retailers as marketing outlets as well as sales outlets. In...

The recent collapses of chains like Borders, added to the 23 casualties last year and over 20+ liquidations anticipated in the New Year, have...

In the current economic climate, suppliers and retailers may be tempted to make more use of multibuys, in order to reduce stocks of slow-moving...

It may be unfair to lay all the blame for the troublesome ‘new’ consumer at the door of the global downturn, but the 2008/09...

As we continue to undergo fundamental political change worldwide, the impact of politics upon retailers and retailers’ influence upon political change is becoming a...

Essentially, as ‘money machines that happen to sell groceries’, the grocery multiples have debugged much of the mystique associated with food provision, meeting consumer...

Recent market data suggests that the trend of cross-border shopping from the Republic to Northern Ireland may be abating, but will this trend carry...

It is obvious that fundamental and possibly irreversible change is taking place in the High Street. The recession has simply accelerated the process of...