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Does the secret to romantic sales success actually lie in an appeal to our cynicism?
Battling the discounters with Sushi bars.
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The upmarket store is reining in expansion but doubling down on value-added for its core clients.
What we buy can be an extension of what we want to convey about our identity and status.
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The expensive things we buy say a lot about our identity, the way we think, and how we feel.
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Back in 1663, it was all about staff getting the day off, now it’s all about boosting the coffers of the major stores.
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Stores are engaged in an arms race to make online shopping less of an impersonal chore.
“Cooling-off” periods for purchases made in high-pressure selling situations like door-to-door sales don’t help consumers, research shows.
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Customers who make purchases under pressure don’t use the usual 10-day cooling-off period given under law, new research finds.
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday start the frenzy of Christmas spending. Don’t let them lure you in with their deals.
Is Black Friday still a thing?
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While some pundits claim the much-hyped shopping day that follows our Thanksgiving feasts has lost its relevance, the reality is a lot more complicated, as four important facts show.
Viral marketing in the making.
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John Lewis’ Christmas ad is highly anticipated and guaranteed to get Britain spending.
Aldi has mastered the phantom product, even though customers know it’s not a brand in disguise.
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More supermarkets are starting to stock “phantom brands”- private label products without any reference to the business’ brand or logo.
Woolworths, along with other big grocery retailers, is backing away from smaller convenience stores.
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Some of the bigger grocery retailers are moving away from convenience stores because of increased costs, difficulties reading the market and cannibalisation.
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The time may be ripe for a South African raid on the UK’s discounted high street.
It looks cheap, but unit pricing gives the true picture.
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It turns out unit pricing really is a handy tool to save money, so why are we still not using it?
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Shoppers have had it with supermarket science and instead are embracing more holistic styles of eating.
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We want products that last, it’s up to manufacturers to provide us with the information we need to buy them.
This has gotta be the deal of the century!
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You’re no mug right? Think again. We all get fooled by anchoring, and probably use it ourselves as well.
Hitting the buffers.
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When a High Street stalwart falls by the wayside, don’t rush to mourn the slow death of town centre shopping.
A speck of gold from a mine in Liberia, Africa.
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Shopping for a gold ring? New guidelines seek to be the rough equivalent of Fair Trade for small-scale gold mining.
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Everyone has experienced it. Striding along in a purposeful hurry, your progress is thwarted by a slow-moving pedestrian, dawdling along the pavement. Perhaps they’re talking into their mobile phone, looking…
Poundland: now a staple of the British high street.
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The unstoppable spread of budget stores is an emotive topic, but they can bring fresh life to town centres