Four approaches to mobile and cross-channel retailing

With mobile gluing together the whole cross-channel play for all retailers, Paul Skeldon asks what techniques and strategies retailers can implement today around mobile to offer the kind of experience shoppers demand   1. Mobile first (and last and always) Firstly, retailers need to think ‘mobile first’, placing mobile at …

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Who is in the Manchester Pride line up?

Manchester Pleasure will look slightly completely different this 12 months, with the phases transferring away from the Homosexual Village. The Homosexual Village Celebration will nonetheless have a lot occurring – however if you wish to catch a little bit of Break Free, you’ll be heading to the newly-added Manchester Pleasure …

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Is the Royal Mail share price a bargain after crashing 30%?

Shares in Royal Mail (LSE: RMG) have been on a consistent downward trajectory over the past 12 months. Indeed, since the end of October last year, the stock has fallen 60%, underperforming its index, the FTSE 250, by around 55% excluding dividends. Year-to-date the stock has fallen approximately 30%, excluding …

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Royal Mint penny-pinches on Enid Blyton

The Royal Mint decided not to honour best-selling — indeed, best loved — author Enid Blyton with a commemorative coin last year because its advisory committee dismissed her as “a racist, sexist, homophobe and not a very well-regarded writer”. Documents obtained under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act have revealed the …

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