Network Rail to open click and collect shops December 2, 2013 COMMUTERS will be offered the chance to pick up their parcels from the train station as part of a trial being run by Network Rail. The rail operator announced today that it will soon open the prototype branch of Doddle, its new delivery shop, in Milton Keynes Central. Visitors to the station, including around 3,000 [...]
Bottom Line: Forty-year-old retailer is true pioneer in age of the internet September 24, 2013 WE DON’T think retail is dead. It is just being repositioned.” So said Ebay president Devin Wenig yesterday, as the US auction giant launched a tie-up with Argos that will see some of the latter’s 700 stores used as drop-off points for deliveries from 50 Ebay sellers. Once again the catalogue firm – founded in [...]
BUSINESS IS BOOMING FOR TABLE DANCE KING July 6, 2010 TABLE-dancing mogul Stephen Less may have made his fortune building up Secrets, London’s largest chain of lap dancing clubs, but he’s certainly no one-trick pony. I hear Less has been a rather busy man of late, broadening his horizons to include no less than four satellite business interests. The first – and most austere – [...]