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    Its worse than that, the Hight St is dead Jim

    To a certain degree, there is nothing new under the sun, look back 60 - 100 years and shops were mixed with residences and shopkeepers lived above the shops.
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    Its worse than that, the Hight St is dead Jim

    The former chairman of the fashion retailer New Look has said the high street is in an "death spiral" and has recommended re-classing empty shops for residential use. Phil Wrigley, the chairman of the retailer Majestic Wine, also criticised the recent report on the high street by Mary Portas...
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    Paid help for Independent Retailers?

    yeah... start with a blog if you don't already....
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    Paid help for Independent Retailers?

    Thanks for the responses. The messages do seem a bit mixed between big retail and something for smaller reatailers. You can see inside the book here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/190772236X/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=#reader_190772236X includes the handy definition...
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    Paid help for Independent Retailers?

    Subscription sites are great, but one thing that amazes me is that befroe I pay to join, I cannot actually see how many people are actually a) members and b) active on the site now.
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    Paid help for Independent Retailers?

    Here is http://www.retailinspector.com/ a site offering a paid-for community and products aimed at Independent Retailers. It costs £17 to join. I am not associated with this site. My question is though, knowing how hard it is to sell consulting to small retailers, is what help would you be...
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    website translation

    I worked on projects translating to Welsh and other languages for Self-Checkout and POS. They key thing is not to use automated transalation like google translate. I hired professional translators for the project who quoted many mis-translated words like, Cystitis instead of...
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    Can one wrong word ruin your e-commerce business plan?

    But doesn't the internet bring Skype/WebConference (PowWowNow etc) mail to solve those issues too? I would imagine the most towns would have a SEO/Web-Designer, but if you want to only search locally then it gives less opportunity to search on price.
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    Can one wrong word ruin your e-commerce business plan?

    In reference to many posts here, words that are often used in looking for ecommerce solutions are: Basic, Free, Cheap, Affordable but the word(s) that are not used are Invest(ment) or Return on Investment. Any idiot can sell you a "cheap" website, if you ask for cheap you get cheap but...
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    send and recieve money commerce solution

    A bit part of the picture is whether you want to do international transfers or not. From what I can see there are many solutions but you need to be a bank etc to get a white label solution. Pre-Paid Debit cards may be the answer as many offer free transfers between cards, or to have two cards...
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    Thorntons

    One of my favourite articles on suppliers dealing with Wal*Mart is here and I am sure it applies to other large retailers. The full article has other examples. Here is a sample on category killing on pickles. Same thing with chocolate, a passion for some retailers, just another category to...
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    Mary Portas review. Have you say

    Its easy to criticise Mary Portas but I guess the challenge is who from retail should have been leading the review? Perhaps Sir Terry Leahy, ex head of Tesco, but would small business think he would represent their best interests, I doubt it! Same for small business leaders would not represent...
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    Google Mobilize M-Commerce Sites

    Anyone seen or used Google m-commerce mobilze website? It includes some free mobile ecommerce templates for a number of businesses, including e-commerce, though this requires google checkout. I am not 100% sure ifs available in the UK yet though I cannot see any reason why not. Seems like a...
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    The roll call of going under carries on

    A good summary from the Guardian as a Christmas card. perhaps..here a pdf http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Business/pdf/2011/12/01/Kipperoccupy.pdf
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    Mary Portas review. Have you say

    Yes I thought there would be some trust issues there. Your local Tesco manager doesn't actually buy anything. But I am sure that the retail industry as a whole could do more with sharing skills with bigger businesses opening up their training academy's etc. At least she has started a debate...
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