Alan Treadgold is a London-based global adviser to retail businesses. He recently provided this guest blog. In mid-August, ASDA, the UK’s third largest food retailer by sales, announced its worst ever sales results. Like-for-like sales in stores open for more than one year (a standard industry measure) fell by 7.5% for the three months to the … Read more
Alan Treadgold is an independent consultant to retail and consumer products companies globally. He has a long background in advertising and management consulting. Alan recently provided this guest blog. I was in a taxi in Hong Kong several years ago, stuck in traffic in the pouring rain. I said to my Hong Kong-based colleague how … Read more
Data analytics – exploring consumer and market data in the retail and supply chain environment Background Retailing is one of the first sectors to have employed large datasets at both strategic and operational levels for a variety of purposes, ranging from frequency marketing, store location, product selection and supply chain management. The amount of data … Read more
30 years of insight into location planning: Retail Location Analysis (RLA) is an annual executive education programme run by the Oxford Institute of Retail Management within the Saïd Business School’s programme portfolio, now in its 30th year. It is designed for retail managers with oversight of or day-to-day responsibility for location planning and development and has … Read more
On Friday 6 May 2016 the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) hosted its first Data Partner Forum at the prestigious Said Business School, University of Oxford. The aim of the event was to bring together a host of existing and potential data partners along with interested academics to engage with current and future consumer data … Read more
Les Dolega, presented at the 22nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Services Science in Montreal, Canada.
At the beginning of May, the Oxford Institute of Retail Management, based at the Saïd Business School, brought together 35 academics and retail practitioners in an inaugural workshop to discuss how data can be better used and modelled to deliver insight into shopping behaviour and to develop thinking on a collaborative research agenda. The workshop … Read more
Since 1 October 2022, new legislation for England restricts the placement of some food and drink products High in Fat, Sugar and Salt (HFSS). Products such as confectionery can no longer be placed at store entrances, ends of aisles, or at the checkout in large retail stores and their online equivalents. The introduction of the … Read more
What is the Priority Places for Food Index? In 2022, 14% of households in the UK struggled to access a reliable source of healthy, nutritious and affordable food. However, statistics about food insecurity outcomes, such as those provided by the Trussell Trust, are not captured at individual or neighbourhood level, making it difficult to target … Read more
The Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI), developed as a collaboration between the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) and the consumer rights group Which?, was launched in 2022 to identify neighbourhoods that are most vulnerable to increases in the cost of living and which are likely to be food insecure. In January 2024 we … Read more