Our thanks to our friend Sue for finding this – how often are you asked to reach for something in-store – does this only apply to aging shoppers?  http://www.aarp.org/home-garden/transportation/info-08-2011/stores-help-older-shoppers.html

Two articles this week illutsrate the pressure the UK is feeling – the first http://www.kamcity.com/namnews/asp/newsarticle.asp?newsid=61189 shows how prices are souring as sales collapse. The second shows the decline in shoppers http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5igyHAZsYWX-CkBtnuZjuCc… If the economy is not yet in recession, consumer goods probably is. Yet in India the rise of digital and shopper marketing are inidcators of exuberant growth. Note also that this embraces the millions of ‘general trade’, independent retaillers! <a href=”http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/special-videos/storyboarde-commerce-is-picking-steam-as-we-speak_578416.html.

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This from Micheal Evans in the Sydney Morning Post: “Just when retailers thought things couldn’t get much worse, along comes a piece of analysis that raises the prospect of the ordeal having a way to run yet. [Read more…]