Retail and Financial Services Posts
Big Tesco is watching you
Supermarkets are planning to deploy AI to police and meddle in our diets
Read the full article...In defence of fast fashion
The crusade against the industry is fuelled by contempt for the consumer
Read the full article...Retailers have become an arm of the nanny state
Sainsbury’s is nudging its customers to become more ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’
Read the full article...Why the next financial crisis could be green
States, banks and big business have gone all in on ‘sustainable’ funny money
Read the full article...Banned Iceland advert
Debate with George Monbiot on Iceland Foods’ encountering censorship of its cartoon ad directed against palm oil
Read the full article...BBC Breakfast interview on retailing
As Sport Direct’s Mike Ashley takes over House of Fraser, James urges High Street retailers to innovate and be imaginative
Read the full article...Mobile phone addiction
Reports of Ofcom figures on mobile use suggest we are addicted to them, but shouldn’t we question this coverage as misanthropic?
Read the full article...Debate with the IPPR on the UK’s crisis in retailing
In the wake of the announcement of up to 6,000 job losses at House of Fraser, the High Street should combat Amazon with automation and new physical sensations
Read the full article...The future of retail banking
In retail banking, the elephant in the room is that there simply may not be any left in years to come. More and more people, and not just the young, do their banking online.
Read the full article...Retail 2020: Of robots, shelves and packs
In all today’s euphoric-apocalyptic hysteria about how the robots are coming, one sector is woefully neglected (1).
Read the full article...The future of retailing
I confess. Like most men, I find shopping boring. Yet what retailers do next is more interesting than the travails of Tesco today, or the more general problem of too much retail floorspace in the UK
Read the full article...Retailing at Goodyear Dunlop’s ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
James Woudhuysen is interviewed about future trends in retailing by Ron Pike, Promotions & Events Manager at Goodyear Dunlop, at the final session of the Goodyear Dunlop ‘State of the Nation 2015’ conference
Read the full article...Re-inventing the High Street
James Woudhuysen spoke on ‘Reinventing the High Street‘ at the Content, Customers & Communities in the Media Landscape conference, held at London’s Digital Catapult Centre, Dec 2014.
Read the full article...Design against food waste? Count me out
Trendy laments about food waste look unlikely ever to make much improvement on the poor incomes so widely offered in Britain’s creative industries.
Read the full article...Time for some high-street innovation
Britain’s retail sector needs to stop worrying about the greens and learn to love new technology
Read the full article...Is Britain drowning in too much packaging?
The wrapping that our food, mod-cons and medications come in is not ‘evil’ – it is a product of civilisation.
Read the full article...Don’t let the miserabilists clip humanity’s wings
Flying away on your holidays this August? The consensus is growing that you should feel guiltier than ever about it.
Read the full article...Paying in cash: more than the strange pastime of a few
Reports of the death of cash are exaggerated. Here’s why
Read the full article...Contact centres are undervalued
In the right hands contact centres can deliver much more than rage-management
Read the full article...Gordon Brown in every handset
Payment will be an important application for mobile telephony
Read the full article...If in doubt, brand
The craze for branding only advertises corporate insecurity
Read the full article...How design got High Street cred
The British High Street began to swing in 1960s. Now it really hurtles
Read the full article...Adding style to the high street
The decline of product design in the UK has slowed, but industry is still wary of investment.
Read the full article...Corporate identity – making a clear impression
For the users of products or services, clarity is the important aspect of corporate identity.
Read the full article...Chequeless, cashless, clueless in the smart card society
The cashless and chequeless society is here. Yet the industry that has grown up around fund transfer terminals and cards is short on information about what users have let themselves in for.
Read the full article...E-commerce in 1988
In 1988, the frothiest of the Thatcher years, I was a director of Fitch & Co, one of the co-organisers of the Teleshopping Consortium.
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Details in this Sunday Times article are extraordinary but unsurprising: Seems the PUBLIC are seen as a problematic threat to be managed/manipulated. Surely CPS impartiality is compromised by this decision? Read on...
1.6GW total from wind and solar this morning, from a total of ~45GW installed capacity. We're keeping the lights on by burning trees and gas. Nukes and reliance upon interconnectors making up the difference. No chance we can hit Net Zero grid by 2030.
“Mother Nature is in charge, and so we must make sure we adjust”.
Ex-cop Democratic Party mayor, indicted on federal bribery and corruption charges, supported by Trump and critical of antisemitism, tells people to tighten their... throats.
What a mess! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/02/new-york-water-shortage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls