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Many customers see free returns as a key part of the online shopping experience.
Honesty is the best policy when planning a crisis response.
In selling off its high street branches, the retail giant is going back to its Victorian roots in transport hubs.
Is it manipulation or persuasion?
The department store needs to improve its performance.
The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
It was a trailblazing firm which fought against animal testing for beauty products.
How to lay the foundations for success when companies collaborate with charities.
To make a real change to our high streets, we need to think about about the social purpose and economic functions of these areas.
Shoplifting in the UK has become brazen, threatening to shop staff, and seemingly without consequence.
The budget retail chain was hoping for a white knight but now it looks like the business will be split among companies including its main high street rivals.
New competition often displaces older, less efficient business models but companies can survive these shifts.
The rapid rise of online shopping is slowing but internet retail is here to stay.
Digital retail is not just about buying online.
Companies need to show that they are socially aware.
Since the 2010s boosting retail has been the government’s primary remedy for better high street health. Without centering the community these street serve, though, plans are likely to fail.
Well known retailers are too often stifled by risk averse corporate culture.
Small-scale stores and flexibility could be key to future shopping habits.
Options include residential conversions, new independent shops, and demolition.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing; Associate Head (Global), University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Retail Studies, University of Stirling
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Lecturer in Law, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
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Professor of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Criminology, City St George's, University of London
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Professor in Human Critical Geography, University of Leeds
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Professor of Management, University of Bath
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Advertising, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Research Fellow in Urban Geography, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Sustainability, Cranfield University
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Senior Lecturer in Tourism Management, Bangor University
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Charles Huang Chair in International Business and Director, Stephen Young Institute, University of Strathclyde