Steve Dresser, CEO

"The man supermarket CEO's turn to" - BBC

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Grocery Insight do a lot of reporting, most of it can be found here, where we sell our wares and...

My first long read on our beautiful new website is to be focused on Morrisons and what may lie ahead...

Follow a good retail diet: Where we have spoken before about the need to follow a good diet (in store)...

& Lidl to some extent. Whenever one visits a discount store, typically, I’m amazed at how hard working the colleagues...

The emergence of online shopping, digital and technological development meant that the stores were finished (or so I heard). Yet...

This is an example of a note on the new Mere discount store in Preston from our retail by email...

Boots is a business that has branches everywhere and the smaller stores don’t appear to have any less range than...

Our retail image of the day features Superdrug and their focus on sustainability. There’s a lot to like about Superdrug...

The challenge with living in a post-truth world is that lying, or bending the truth has become an art form,...

Today for our retail image of the day, we look at some elements of COVID19 that we’ll never see scenes...

Our subscribers recently had the privilege(*) of a two parter email that uncovered our particular tales of woe based on...

For today’s retail image of the day, we have Target and their Back to School event. The Minneapolis based outfit is...

Today we focus on Topshop for our retail image of the day. It’s a sad image of mannequins in the...

Today we feature Superdrug on our retail image of the day, with their relatively modern store on a retail park...

Boots has stores everywhere, from larger stores to the smaller pharmacies. Some of which are tiny and barely house a...

Our retail image of the day today features John Lewis and their store in Leeds, indeed, their baby category specifically...

Friday’s image is via Sainsbury’s with their impressive predicting of the future with their food waste reducing in store produced...

This image is via Cole Haan and their ‘sold out’ display in the store near the Rockefeller Centre, New York (no less) which ends...

We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing....

We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing....

We have decided to develop an ‘image of the day’ feature to look at the best practice side of retailing,...

I managed to stumble upon a Debenhams in the Bullring recently that was in the final throes of death, with...

Back in 2020, a year that no one wishes to remember, we produced our ‘retail’s best’ advent calendar, charting 25...

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Steve Dresser, CEO

"The man supermarket CEO's turn to" - BBC

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