Retail sales fall less than expected September 15, 2011 Retail sales fell slightly less than expected in August, but the underlying trend remained flat, as consumers continued to rein in spending at a time of great economic uncertainty, official data showed. The Office for National Statistics said sales volumes including automotive fuel fell 0.2 per cent last month, slightly better than forecasts for a [...]
Taking soundbars into orbit August 24, 2011 IT looks like the looming black monolith from 2001, A Space Odyssey, but the speaker system on the left is a deft spatial stereo gizmo constructed by another plucky British company, the sci fi-sounding Orbitsound. Announced this week and coming into shops next month, the soundbar (which has the not-exactly-charismatic title of T12v3) is able [...]
Anchors away: get in the nautical mood for Cowes July 28, 2011 1. Ralph Lauren Laurel blazer, £125.50, johnlewis.com 2. Top Shop red button shorts, £35 3. Watercolour chain scarf in cream, John Lewis, £50, johnlewis.com 4. Aspinal nautical charm, £19, aspinaloflondon.com 5. Alexander McQueen double skull ring, £150, Matches, matchesfashion.com 6. BC Milkshake wedge deck shoes, £65, asos.com 7. Timney rope handle stripe tote bag, £65, houseoffraser.co.uk [...]
John Lewis sales up in Christmas run-in December 23, 2010 John Lewis sales were up 4.3 per cent from Sunday to Wednesday compared with the same period last year – with jewellery and watches helping to fuel the rise. The retailer has been giving regular trading updates which have been used as barometer for the performance of the sector. In beauty products Molton Brown’s “A [...]
John Lewis sales up in Christmas run-in December 23, 2010 John Lewis sales were up 4.3 per cent from Sunday to Wednesday compared with the same period last year – with jewellery and watches helping to fuel the rise. The retailer has been giving regular trading updates which have been used as barometer for the performance of the sector. In beauty products Molton Brown’s “A [...]
Stratford is a smooth retail experience September 13, 2011 I GREW up in a suburb of Boston, USA, where the only places to shop were malls. Despite America’s reputation as a shopping paradise, these were terribly dreary places, department store complexes off highways. Sure, you could pick up a washing machine, get your ears pierced, eat a Cinnabon and buy a sixpack of white [...]
Stratford is a smooth retail experience September 13, 2011 I GREW up in a suburb of Boston, USA, where the only places to shop were malls. Despite America’s reputation as a shopping paradise, these were terribly dreary places, department store complexes off highways. Sure, you could pick up a washing machine, get your ears pierced, eat a Cinnabon and buy a sixpack of white [...]
Look East to the new destination for pilgrims who shop September 13, 2011 BORIS Johnson reached for the cultural high notes at the opening of Westfield Stratford City: boasting that the new shopping centre would trigger regeneration not seen in East London since the Middle Ages, he quoted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which Madam Eglantine the Prioress spoke French “after the school of Stratford-at-Bow, for French of Paris [...]
Look East to the new destination for pilgrims who shop September 13, 2011 BORIS Johnson reached for the cultural high notes at the opening of Westfield Stratford City: boasting that the new shopping centre would trigger regeneration not seen in East London since the Middle Ages, he quoted Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, in which Madam Eglantine the Prioress spoke French “after the school of Stratford-at-Bow, for French of Paris [...]
John Lewis stores defy cold snap November 28, 2010 SNOWSTORMS could not stop the boom in John Lewis sales, the department store announced yesterday. Sales last week were just short of £100m, up 8.7 per cent on the same time last year. And the Oxford Street branch recorded its best ever November week. Children’s toys are predictably selling well in the run up to [...]