Saïd Business School Resources Blogs

Here’s some news of Anthony Hucker’s latest initiative. Apart from the presence of general merchandise, this seems to have quite a lot in common with Fresh & Easy. If you think Gentry (population 3,000) is small, we opened a Fat …

We talked in class on Wednesday about the problem of coping with online returns, and this article reveals some interesting UK trends. The comment “every store return was processed without hesitation by store staff” seems odd at first, but I …

Jessica Brown, editor of fashion trade magazine Drapers, has just been appointed as Head of Fashion for Amazon’s UK business.  

In the early days of online retailing there was a prevailing wisdom that customers needed to be enticed on to the …

There is an interesting story today about Walmart setting up a UK office to search for European opportunities. We’ll forgive Anthony for not mentioning this last week, which complements the closure of the Moscow office he talked about. There could …

Jonathan showed a slide of  international retailers opening on Regent Street. Here’s news of one departure and one arrival (albeit that Hollister was initially rolled out in shopping malls without a “flagship” central London location).

Retail Week have an interesting interview on their website with the UK Managing Director of H&M about the Conscious collection. There’s also an interesting article with some good photographs of the new M&S we talked about in Sheffield.