Their achievement, your achievement
Don Fisher, who died this week, founded Gap in San Franciso, with his wife Doris, because he had an idea that he could make it
Collected blog posts about Benchmarking
What price to pay?
I am briefly in Marrakesh and the price of most things varies. There is a tourist price and there is a local price and you
We’re moving to Spar
My wife and I have been running our own village shop for over 20 years and have always looked at how we can do it
The multiples can be beaten
The Somerfield shop in my village has started to share co-branding with the Co-op, which bought the chain earlier this year. A pair of workers,
Planning for 2010
In my business, we have started our 2010 budget process and no-one is happy about having to put words and numbers on what they think
Paying attention to the detail
Kevin Jones, who runs a shop in Hawarden, Clywd, has identified another tricky detail when the VAT rate jumps back up 2.5% to 17.5% in
Learn from the best: look right
The October 2009 issue of Which, the consumers’ bible, provides a helpful double-page diagram revealing 10 secrets of how supermarkets position goods to make shoppers
Bench-marking your shop!
I was looking at the bench outside the village hall on Saturday evening as the local youth gathered, thinking how the faces change but the
The mystery of numbers
It says in the marketing blurb that Random House printed more than six million copies of Dan Brown’s latest book, which went on sale last
2010 looks like being a tough year
Andy Bond runs Asda, the UK arm of Wal-Mart, and recently agreed to a lengthy interview with the Financial Times newspaper about his views on
