All articles by Graham Ruddick
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InsightWill Marks & Spencer’s online food offering be simply delicious?
Marks Spencer is considering whether to launch an online grocery service. This is a key moment in the evolution of online shopping in Britain.
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InsightThe demise of BHS has left a hole in the high street. What will fill it?
The 25th of April marked a year since BHS collapsed into administration, an event that led to the loss of 11,000 jobs and an extraordinary parliamentary investigation that dragged in high-profile figures from retail, property and banking.
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InsightHammond’s last-minute giveaways don’t mask deep problems with business rates system
The extraordinary row that has played out in Westminster in recent weeks about business rates was no surprise to those in the retail and property world.
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InsightCo-op may have lost market share but its performance has improved dramatically
A decade ago, Aldi was the 10th biggest food retailer in Britain. Now it has overtaken the Co-op to claim fifth place.
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Insight2017 Predictions: most seismic year ever in store for the high street
Last year, if you had bet £1 that Leicester City FC would win the Premier League, Britain would vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump would be elected the next US president, you could have won almost £5m.
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InsightShops should reconsider their part in Black Friday
The biggest shopping day of the year is almost here and no one on the high street is particularly looking forward to it.
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InsightDon’t read too much into John Lewis Partnership’s results
It is easy to look at the John Lewis Partnership and conclude that its golden era is over.
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InsightReputations on the line as fallout from Sports Direct and BHS starts to hit home
The retail industry is in the dock thanks to Sports Direct and BHS.
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Insight'Big four' have less to lose from Brexit than others
Stable consumer confidence is just about the only thing that high-street retailers have been able to rely on over the past year.
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InsightWhy is the government giving retailers such a hard time?
Retailers have every right to wonder what they did to upset the powers-that-be.
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InsightRetail detail - how BHS demise has led to a rise in sales
I wrote last month that it was going to be hard for BHS to find itself a place on the high street.
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InsightManoeuvres on the high street as BHS struggles for survival
When a retailer is struggling, you often hear the chief executive talk about how the company needs to go back to its roots and remember the reason it exists in the first place.
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InsightRetail old guard beware: Amazon is about to make its power and creativity count
This month’s warning that almost a million retail jobs will disappear over the next decade could not have been better timed.
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InsightAll stores should be convenience stores now
It is time to eradicate the phrase ‘convenience store’ from retail.
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InsightProperty management is key to success for traditional retailers
It was clear from the Black Friday sales in November that Christmas 2015 was going to be tough for retailers, and so it has proved.
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InsightWhat a rollercoaster week it’s been for retail
The past week has been terrible for high-street retailers, yet the best ever for online retailers.
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InsightRetailers brace themselves for a record-breaking Black Friday
Let’s get one thing straight about Black Friday - most retailers hate it.
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InsightTurning around the Tesco supertanker will take time
If Carlsberg did supermarkets they would not look like Tesco.
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InsightMorrisons will need to focus on more than the basics to compete with the likes of Lidl
Do you remember the slogan ‘More reasons to shop at Morrisons’? David Potts doesn’t seem to.
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InsightAmazon Fresh leaves bitter taste for UK supermarkets
Everywhere you look, Amazon has been in the news this summer.
