Retailiation: Retail Insights with bite.

Every quarter the UK retail market share figures make stimulating reading...winners, loses... but what are you meant to do with it? Last...

Earlier today, Mark Webb - Head of Social Media Dixons Carphone - reissued an intriguing press release covering a two-store test, with Di...

Morrison's capturing the McColl's supply contract is audacious. The decision to execute using the Safeway brand is not unproble...

It wasn’t meant to be like this.  When Philip Clarke took over as Tesco boss, no one anticipated the pace of structural shift in shopper ...

Mothercare, the UK's iconic retailer in all things baby and toddlers, is having it's cradle rocked. 2014 has been a tough year for...

Will Tesco axe Clubcard? I know, it is an absurd suggestion. Having spent twenty years building a veritable industry of activity around i...

I am the world's worst golfer. After years of trying to play, the basic problem still haunts me: I stand too close to the ball after I h...

Imagine. Fast forward fifteen years. Imagine every rule and assumption you currently hold about retailers, manufacturers, brands and own...

Manchester United's ten month disastrous flirtation with David Moyes is over. To many, he had been "dead man walking" for m...

Finger ever on the pulse, I entered the undisputed mecca of retail, Dubai Mall and discovered Patchi. I use the term "discovered...

42% of UK marriages end in divorce. If the ultimate "loyalty card" - diamonds, gold and marriage certificate - can't retu...

Tesco's preliminaries today holds few surprises. The 6% fall in annual profits and 1.4% decline in like-for-like sales haVE been well t...

Persistence is admirable. Sometimes. So news of Tesco’s return to the USA could be encouraging. Whilst limiting their risks by adopting a...

Last week, when writing about the upcoming Alibaba IPO ( www.retailiation.com They came from the east), I predicted a new wave of retail i...