by BillGrimsey | Aug 31, 2013 | Bills Blog
The ebb and flow of consumer confidence is something economists track religiously. For years it’s been sinking to new depths, but the sudden change of weather, allowing Britain to enjoy the best summer in years, has seen a striking turnaround. Or so it appears.Once...
by BillGrimsey | Aug 5, 2013 | Bills Blog
Two of the biggest names in retailing have appealed to Government to “level the playing field” and start to apply a different taxation to on-line retailers. The CEOs of Morrisons, Dalton Philips, and J. Sainsbury’s Justin King, should be told to stop whinging...
by BillGrimsey | Jul 22, 2013 | Bills Blog
Last week a largely unnoticed event showed we’ve now reached a tipping point. As the Government quietly released a progress update on the Portas Pilots, ministers acknowledged, no doubt through gritted teeth, that the Pilots had been a “valuable testing ground” but...
by BillGrimsey | Jul 9, 2013 | Bills Blog
Insanity is, as Albert Einstein once said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I’m not sure retail developers got the memo on this one though. Earlier this month (21 June) Cushman & Wakefield announced that UK shopping centre...
by BillGrimsey | Jul 2, 2013 | Bills Blog
Slowly but surely the facts are beginning to percolate through a bed of misty-eyed sentiment and nostalgia. The high street is not going back to a credit-fuelled consumer boom of the early noughties and the dying model that traditionalists continue to champion...
by BillGrimsey | Jun 19, 2013 | Bills Blog
“If you don’t like change,” a famous army general once warned, “you are going to like irrelevance even less.” While huge structural changes continue to sweep the high street, lessons like this seem oddly not to be registering with policy makers. During my 45-year...
by BillGrimsey | Mar 8, 2013 | Bills Blog
The High Street is a mirror image of the UK Economy As we enter spring and say goodbye to winter it is a good time to reflect on the first two grizzly months of 2013 for retailers and the UK economy. The Christmas lights were still up when the shutters came down on...
by BillGrimsey | Feb 26, 2013 | Bills Blog
The danger of building a future on retail By Jackie Sadek on February 25, 2013 2:16 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks My last post on the LDC Retail Summit gave rise to a bit of commentary. People really care about what is going to happen to the British high street and...
by BillGrimsey | Feb 18, 2013 | Bills Blog
It’s what it says on the packet After a week when Phil Clarke, the boss of Tesco, promised his customers that, in future, what it says on the packet will be what’s in the packet, when Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, started a probe into his own department...
by BillGrimsey | Jan 28, 2013 | Bills Blog
Macclesfield 25th January 2013-01-21 Talk by Bill Grimsey Goodevening Councillor Michael Jones leader of Cheshire East Council recently wrote a letter in your local Newspaper claiming that everyone agrees that Macclesfield is at a crossroad. He claims that the...
by BillGrimsey | Dec 30, 2012 | Bills Blog
Welcome to my fourth blog. In the wake of Christmas and a few days after Comet shut its’ doors for the last time and disappeared from our High Streets forever, I challenge an industry which is adding more and more space almost irresponsibly. We have witnessed...
by BillGrimsey | Dec 3, 2012 | Bills Blog
I am outraged that M&S are selling a plastic toy Spitfire with “made in Germany” on the pack. I understand that we should move on and I have. I have owned German cars, promoted their food and love their country. But I cannot see the Spitfire...
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