All Electricals articles – Page 161
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News
Best Buy closes in on first stores as UK arrival nears
Central London flagship location also under consideration as retail park deals are negotiated.
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O2 systems back on track after iPhone rush
O2 has revealed that its IT systems are back to normal, after demand for the 3G iPhone caused its web site to crash and store systems to slow last week.
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Food prices drive inflation in June
Soaring food and fuel prices pushed the benchmark Consumer Prices Index up 3.8 per cent in June compared with 3.3 per cent in May – almost double the Bank of England’s inflation target.
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Jessops warns on profits
Camera specialist Jessops has warned that losses this year will be worse than last year, as tough trading conditions continue to bite.
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Analysis
Mounting recession speculation sends retail stocks into tailspin
The pall of looming recession hung black over the City all week, pitching the entire market into steep decline.
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Game’s glory garners a mixed City reaction
The City is divided over the outlook for computer entertainment specialist Game, despite a stellar update last week.
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Shoppers queue for latest iPhone
Shoppers are queuing across the UK this morning to get their hands on the latest must-have Apple iPhone.
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Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year
Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.
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Shop price rise for June stays below inflation
June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
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PC World facelift to be rolled out
DSGi will roll out its revamped PC World shop format to the entire 160-store chain as it aims to reinvigorate flagging sales at the computing brand.
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Halfords adds shopper Q&A function online
Halfords is letting customers ask product questions and answer each other’s on its web site.
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DSGi: the City view
There were few surprises in John Browett’s first set of full-year results as chief executive of DSG International but, although the results were well-flagged, Browett struggled to convince the City that better times lie ahead.
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Opinion
Is electricals leaving consumers behind?
It was Intel co-founder Gordon Moore who pointed out that the number of transistors that could be put on integrated circuits appears to double every two years.
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News
Retailers slide as M&S’s share dive leads wave of falling stocks
While Marks & Spencer’s terrible performance in food grabbed the headlines on Wednesday, it was the general retailers that got a battering, as Sir Stuart Rose warned the market was at its toughest since the early 1990s.
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Opinion
Reinvention will be our lifeline
Continually striving to improve everything we do will help retailers ride out this downturn
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News
Richer Sounds extends video demos from web to stores
Richer Sounds is to extend its use of video demonstrations from its web site to its stores.
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Kesa: The City View
The Anglo-French electricals combine reported a rise in retail profit of 3.1 per cent to 141.3 million in the 12 months to April 30, when revenues rose 14 per cent to 4.51 billion.
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Opinion
The Retail Week - June 27, 2008
A comment from DSGi chief executive John Browett in this morning’s Times caught my eye. Describing the new training programme for the company’s UK staff announced alongside yesterday’s terrible full-year results, he said: “This is not rocket science, it’s what anyone would do.”
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Analysis
Foot on the pedal
Halfords’ bold poaching of David Wild from Wal-Mart indicates that it is serious about boosting its overseas presence. But that doesn’t mean it will take its eye off the UK. George MacDonald assesses the new chief’s likely impact
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News
HMV social networking gets closer to full launch
Entertainment retailer HMV will next week move a step closer to the launch of its social networking web site, Getcloser.com.