Richard Perks

Retail analyst specialising in all retail and consumer matters. I tweet about retail news and events. All opinions are my own.

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@Katie_Barker13 @retailweek Sorry, would love to have done - but have another commitment

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@dresserman @BryanRoberts72 Surely not.

Happy birthday

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@dresserman Fine fare was never a discounter and Kwik Save was always a hybrid, a retailer of branded goods rather than a real Aldi clone

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AO: are we really just seeing that Black Friday had a much longer effect than we expected? It really was profoundly damaging to the sector.

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Retail sales up 2.5% y/y and ex fuel. We forecast 3%, the difference, presumably, was sales pulled forward by Black Friday

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Good retail sales figures - people are still prepared to go out an spend. So no reason to change our +3% forecast for December

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Helped judge the College of Public Speaking Corporate Challenge last night. Malachi Talabi - a great winner.

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M&S - has it been switching space from homewares to clothing?

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M&S - clothing figures encouraging, but why are the furniture sales so weak in what was a strong market?

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@steve_hawkes @NeilRetail It takes a long time to turn a business like Tesco round - either way

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@steve_hawkes @NeilRetail Fair comment, but too few people really seem to understand the timescales involved.

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@steve_hawkes @NeilRetail I'm with Neil on this. That profit figure was not sustainable. The rot had already set in.

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Tesco - can it really be right to bring in someone with no retail experience?

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Tesco - Philip Clark was doing basically the right things and the longer term strategy was the best of the big 4.

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Has M&S been switching space from furniture to clothing to make the clothing figures look better?

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M&S website is a red herring. How can GM have done so badly in such a strong market?

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Spar Hackney - brilliant. Breathing new life into convenience stores.

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On potential rate rises: 42% mortgage holders said they'd struggle if rates increased (Dec 13). Don't envy the BoE's balancing act...

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@dresserman Down 5.6% in Q1 inc fuel, so still worse. But not as bad as the headline figures were cracked up to be.

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Sainsbury's: Take off convenience & online and superstores were down 3.8% (Inc fuel). So perhaps Morrisons isn't so bad after all