Focus on shoppers not naysayers
While the magazine and newspaper industry is fearful that its current distribution model, dependent on sales through corner shops, is at risk from the ...more
Collected blog posts about Tech
Reasons to worry about the Apple app store
Is Apple's iTunes a competitor for the local news shop in the UK? Yes, if the "success" of The Guardian's iPhone application is anything to go by. Pri ...more
Bin recycling?
From February 1st this year we, along with most battery retailers in the UK, have been required to offer a domestic battery recycling facility. Our ...more
Local retailers must realise that the internet is a game-changer
The internet will change the way that you operate your local shop and there is little to be gained from fighting this. A requirement for UK retaile ...more
Tesco Online target small basket shops
Most shopper transactions for local shops are under £10, which may be a good thing if the rise of on-line grocery shopping continues. But don't bet o ...more
Upgrade your software or face being left in the cold
You may think that it is just big companies that focus on their IT needs as a part of their business and security. But we all have to keep our syste ...more
Think about how online will affect your shop
In a recent issue of Retail Newsagent, Henllan shopkeeper Vanessa Griffiths said that she used the Morrisons and Waitrose web sites to compare their f ...more
2010 – the year of the e-reader magazine?
I spoke to some retailers last year about how worried they were about e-readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, and the impact it would have on their busine ...more
Good Twitter sense
Last week, we began a look at how Twitter is revolutionising marketing for small and large businesses. This week we take a closer look at how two reta ...more
Retailers just twittering on
Twitter is the big internet phenomenon of 2009. For the three people who use the web and haven’t heard of it, Twitter is a micro-blogging site that ...more
