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	<title>Retail News Update</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Credit crunch boosts discounters, local shops and own label</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/credit-crunch-boosts-discounters-local-shops-and-own-label/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit Crunch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Discount retailers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[French retailers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Slashed Prices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The economic slowdown is good news for discount retailers, local shops and own-label products, according to research from retail consultancy him!
A survey conducted by the consultants found:
• 22% of adults said they would spend more at discount supermarkets
• 19% will spend more at local retailers, because they are cheaper to get to and offer perceived [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Launches Online-Publishing Service, a Potential Wikipedia Rival</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/google-launches-online-publishing-service-a-potential-wikipedia-rival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet / Mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Inc]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Knol]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[On-line Publishing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Publish Writings]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wikipedia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google Inc. has launched an online-publishing service that is a potential competitor to Wikipedia.
Google on Wednesday took the wrappings off its previously announced publishing-and-reference service called Knol, which allows users to write articles on specific topics and to make money from them.
By trying to provide such content, the service is likely to compete with online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supermarkets launch price war over petrol</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/supermarkets-launch-price-war-over-petrol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ASDA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Morrisons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sainsbury]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supermarkets Launch Petrol Relief]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tesco]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Supermarkets began a petrol price war yesterday, bringing relief for millions of motorists in response to a fall in oil prices. Asda announced a cut in the cost of unleaded and diesel by 3p a litre, a move that triggered Morrisons&#8217; 4p a litre reduction for unleaded petrol and diesel. 
Sainsbury&#8217;s followed suit with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retailers gear up for third Vodafone boycott</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/retailers-gear-up-for-third-vodafone-boycott/</link>
		<comments>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/retailers-gear-up-for-third-vodafone-boycott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet / Mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boycott Vodafone]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retailers Commision]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vodafone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of independent retailers are gearing up for a third boycott of Vodafone products this weekend, in response to the mobile phone operator&#8217;s cut in commission payments.
The three-day boycott will take place from Friday 25 July 2008 to Sunday 27 July.
The retailers have been further incensed by Vodafone’s announcement earlier this week of revenues up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet addresses going to exhaust by 2011</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/internet-addresses-going-to-exhaust-by-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/internet-addresses-going-to-exhaust-by-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet / Mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DNS Server]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Domain Name]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet Protocol]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Pages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a prediction by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), it is reported that more than 85 per cent of the available addresses on the internet have been allocated and the remaining will run out by 2011. Thus internet world may face this doomsday inn exactly 1,273 day.
The web addresses I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Category Management: The Road Ahead</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/category-management-the-road-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Category Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retail Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Collaboration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Win Weber’s Leading Edge Perspective
Category management, which is based on sound business principles, has heightened awareness of the importance of category level planning, and it has changed, for the better, behavior throughout the industry.  It is producing favorable results with a vast majority of those retailers who are implementing the concept.  There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vester opens second supermarket in Minsk</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vester-opens-second-supermarket-in-minsk/</link>
		<comments>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/vester-opens-second-supermarket-in-minsk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chain Stores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chain Store]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Grocery stores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hypermarket]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grocery operator Vester launched its second outlet in Minsk, the capital city of Belarus. Investments in the supermarket, taking up 2,400 m2, comprised some $2m. The store features 10,000 SKUs. 
Overall, Vester is to open three new hypermarkets in Ukraine by the end of 2008, Interfax reported. Vester Hyper outlets will appear in Khmelnitsky, Kharkov [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pantaloon Retail plans major expansion in TN</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/pantaloon-retail-plans-major-expansion-in-tn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retail Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Big Bazaar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chennai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pantaloon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Nadu]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COIMBATORE: Future Group company Pantaloon Retail India will open new &#8216;Big Bazaar&#8217; outlets in the major towns and cities of Tamil Nadu within the shortest possible period, a senior company official said today. To start with, a new outlet would be opened in Chennai within a month. Outlets would soon be opened in Salem, Tiruchirapalli, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weak economy gives new momentum to retail rents campaign</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/weak-economy-gives-new-momentum-to-retail-rents-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/weak-economy-gives-new-momentum-to-retail-rents-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arcadia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[British Retail Consortium (BRC)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carpetright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Retail rents reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://retailnu.wordpress.com/?p=691</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is welcoming the new impetus given to retail rents reform by some of retailing&#8217;s biggest names. 
Arcadia owner Sir Philip Green and Lord Harris, Chairman of Carpetright, are among those now calling for commercial landlords to accept rents monthly rather than quarterly in advance.
The BRC believes its two year campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TM Lewin bucks the trend</title>
		<link>http://retailnu.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/tm-lewin-bucks-the-trend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ladies Standalone Stores]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mens Formal Wear]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Smart work clothing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Shirt retailer TM Lewin is to launch womenswear stores next year, as it revealed profits and sales have bucked the retail downturn. 
TM Lewin chief executive Geoff Quinn said: “We are hoping to go into ladies standalone stores for the first half of next year. We would start off in London.” 
Mr Quinn said that [...]]]></description>
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