retail

25Nov

Shopping for England

posted by Steve Bowbrick

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What a lovely, fascinating, useful programme. Proper scholarship (from Mica Nava, a clever historian who was once, in the distant past, my boss for a short while), great stories and really interesting and relevant insights into the translation of Britain from 19th Century manufacturing powerhouse into 20th Century shopaholic paradise.
The two big names featured were [...]

16Jun

Mary Queen of Shops

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Mary Portas is the retail display guru credited with rescuing Harvey Nichols and she belongs to the following WIkipedia categories: 1962 births, Living people, People from Rickmansworth, Bisexual people, LGBT people from England, British businesspeople in retailing, English journalists and English non-fiction writers
Her reality TV show is great stuff: a version of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares [...]



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