Tag Archives: high street

Shoppers are not spending less, they are spending differently

Last Monday was known as cyber-Monday amongst retailers in the UK and it marks the beginning of the Christmas sales rush, but will the tough economic climate change this traditional boom time for British retailers? In a recent article featured in … Continue reading

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Is Retail Broken?

A new Teleperformance blogger Peter Champion joins the online debate… Peter is Sales Director at TP and you can reach him here… The Oxford Institute of Retail Management at Said Business School recently announced the launch of an 18-month study into the … Continue reading

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Customer experience is the future of retail

Do you remember the dot com boom of the nineties? Unfortunately I am old enough to remember it clearly – I’m still shocked when I see graduates entering the company who were born in the nineties so this all seems … Continue reading

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Best and Worst Service on the High Street

This week, the Consumer’s Association published their latest survey on customer satisfaction in the British High Street. Over 11,000 people were surveyed and asked specifically about their experience in shops in the previous six months. The results are not pretty … Continue reading

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What price will customers pay for good service?

Retail is changing and embracing a multichannel format that belnds the high street, online sales, and something in-between like pop-up stores that are fully branded, but little more than a collection of computers for browsing products. If you can remember … Continue reading

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Virgin Money to shake up the British High Street

What interesting news that Virgin Money is buying up Northern Rock. Not only is Virgin saying that there will be no redundancies (at least for 3 years), they are also promising to open more branches and to expand. It is … Continue reading

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Banking crisis will create a new High Street

As the banking crisis loomed in 2007, lines formed outside branches of the Northern Rock bank. This run on the bank exacerbated the perilous state of the Rock’s cash flow crisis. Ultimately, the British government stepped in to prevent a … Continue reading

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