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With her high street store closed, some insights from one independent retailer on how adapting her business to an online platform has helped Amanda Alexander is founder of Giddy Goat Toys in Didsbury on the outskirts of Manchester. Until the pandemic forced her to shut her doors the small independent business was ticking over nicely. But the pandemic changed all that. The majority of Amanda&r...
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Streetify - The innovative e-commerce app that lets you put together your ideal high street at home and saves you money in the process... At the moment, the high street is a distant memory. A fabled boulevard of dreams, where every object our hearts desired could be obtained for an archaic trade of value-assigned paper and metal. Remuneration. Well, okay, perhaps we’re not quite at the po...
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The future and success of Britain’s high streets has been long debated. So, what are the tech trends that could help impact the Highstreet in 2020? Ian Jones, founder of LoLo, an app that rewards shoppers for buying and eating from local restaurants and retailers, shares his thoughts... In recent years the future and success of Britain’s high streets has been long debated; what&r...
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dip is a new free to download and free to use shopping companion app that will show users relevant deals based on their hyper-location. A young startup team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland is launching a new mobile app intended to disrupt the voucher industry at the end of this month. The app is called dip which is an acronym for Deals in Places. It allows users to access deals, discounts and ...
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The lowdown on Down Your High Street, the startup that is aiming to help independent retailers to compete and trade online... Whilst we all realise the importance of keeping the high street alive, we also know that online shopping is here to stay. It can be a difficult balancing act. We may fundamentally want to support our local retailers and traders yet we often end up purchasing products onlin...
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Natalie Lovett, Director of The Whitewed Directory chats about her business and how you can grow your start-up business from home.Technology has given us greater flexibility over when, where and how we work, and has aided a rise in the number of people setting up their own business from home. Getting your business in front of potential customers can seem daunting when you spend much of your day-to...
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As we all know, the internet has had a huge impact on the retail sector and not always in a positive way. As online shopping has surged, the good old bricks and mortar stores have suffered. That however may no longer be the case, thanks to our latest startup of the week. NearSt is a startup which is “on a mission to get all of us back into our high street shops”. Here’s how it...
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Founded in 2015 and based in London, CityStasher is a ‘sharing economy’ solution for left luggage storage (think Airbnb but for your heavy bags and suitcases). Connecting tourists with local hotels and shops who can securely store their bags, both the ‘hosts’ generate revenue and new footfall, and the the tourists save time and money. So what’s the left luggage prob...
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As most of us can attest to, our high streets have had a pretty tough time of it lately. With the rise in identikit shopping malls, the growth of out of town retail parks and of course the multitude of economic challenges it’s not been an easy few years. However all is not doom and gloom. There are people and initiatives all across the country who are on a mission to fight back and to ...
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Now a little treat for the self-starter aged 16-30 looking to exercise their innovative muscles - the annual TestTown challenge is back with another round of high street enterprise opportunities available up and down the UK…here’s the low down. The Problem The great British high street has been on something of a low in recent years with the changing shopping habits of the public bei...
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