Clare Rayner
The Retail Champion
Clare is a retail expert, speaker, writer, mentor, consultant, analyst and trainer. Through The Retail Champion programmes she shares her expertise with both retailers and suppliers to retail, developing strategies to increase profit, customer base, revenue streams & channels to market.Follow The Retail Champion on Linkedin
Category Archives: News
Six things #retailers can expect in the run-up to #Christmas
Every year I’m asked for my predictions for the retail industry in the run-up to Christmas, and this year – with the unseasonably warm weather and yesterday having been the hottest Halloween on record – it’s started early. So, here … Continue reading
Posted in christmas shopping, Consumer Trends, News, Seasonal Retail
Tagged black friday, christmas delivery, christmas sales, click and collect, cyber monday, delivered by christmas, growth of mobile commerce, high street christmas, impact of weather on retail sales, multi-channel retailers, omni-channel retailers, online sales, online spending, out of town retail parks christmas, peak trading, shopping centre christmas
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Don’t panic! The #highstreet is NOT dying!
Yesterday morning, the retail industry woke up to more scaremongering headlines that serve only to feed public pessimism over the high street. I was called up to discuss the matter on Sky News, primarily because I felt more than able … Continue reading
.@RetailChampion & @FutureHighSt campaigner congratulates @NorthKestevenDC on BOLD move enabling @Tesco development
Too often, major supermarkets, such as Tesco, are blamed for the “death of the high street”. My belief is that larger, out-of-town retailers can be to blame for this: within towns, where supermarkets offer free parking and vital services, the … Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: The High Street is Dead, Long Live the High Street! #futurehighstreet
Retail Champion and high street campaigner, Clare Rayner, announces the first Future High Street Summit in a bid to ditch the rhetoric about “death of the high street” and to kick-start positive ACTION to accelerate the transformation and regeneration of … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, News, The Retail Champion
Tagged future high street, high street
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The future of retail – guest blog by @WebLoyalty #retail
This is a guest post by Webloyalty about recent research into the future of retailing, it makes for very interesting reading… New research, commissioned from Conlumino by eCommerce partner Webloyalty, into the future of retail reveals the full impact of … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer Trends, News
Tagged conlumino, Future of Retail, guy chiswick, neil saunders, webloyalty
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Be a Retail Champion! 10-steps to retail success group mentoring sessions
Due to a number of requests I am setting up group mentoring sessions. These will be delivered online by webinar. These will cost £25 per hour and I’d run them in evenings so as to avoid impact on your core … Continue reading
Why business rates need to change to mirror changes in consumerism
In the 2 weeks from 6th to 20th January 2013 I felt like I’d got caught up in a non-stop media circus. From radio to TV, it was all happening, and practically daily! First it was about the retailers were reporting … Continue reading
