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A blog is where it all started for us, way back in 2009.

We offer our perspective and insight on the things that matter to retail.

Q3 results are good but what’s going on in the stores?

  As the Q3 results reveal yet another good performance from Morrisons, the share price had climbed above the £3...

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Booths – the Waitrose of the north?

        Based not too far from the fledgling M Local store in Ilkley is a Booths store,...

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Tesco Bradford – does it have ‘extra’ ?

We’ve never been particularly well served in Bradford by Tesco which is surprising considering they are the number 1 retailer...

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M Kitchen fully launched – let o2o commence!

After the initial ‘soft’ launch of some ready meals into stores last Monday (4th Oct), it was somewhat disappointing that...

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Asda, Supermarkets, Supercentres and pure EDLP?

This blog post was planned in before the Tesco announcement of £500m worth of price cuts and it’s interesting that...

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o2o launches on Ready Meals and Pizza..

One of Daltons major planks in his strategy that he revealed in 2010 was to close the gap on own...

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More changes in Kirkstall

One of the biggest mistakes I made on this blog was assuming that the Kirkstall store would be finished when...

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Tesco ‘big’ Price drop goes live…..

So after the story was broken via twitter that Tesco were looking to start some sort of offensive, followed by a...

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