Better Retailing Podcast: Season 3, Episode 1

“January doesn't have 31 says in retail, it has 200”

Welcome to Series three of the Better Retailing podcast! We start the year with the five of us, but with some sad news - it's Aman's last ever podcast with us as part of the full-time BR Pod team. Go well, Aman.

That might be sad, but we do have the official unveiling of Atul's Big Pot to get us over this tremendous loss. Out with the old, in with the new.

The team talks about how stores should plan for Christmas - and Nat talks about the importance of planning for those "things that will definitely go wrong" moments and getting your stock levels right. Elsewhere, we look at how to analyse sales success in January, the big jobs for the start of the year, and New Year's Resolutions; and there's a great chat on the five year plan and what stores can do to counteract the pressures they feel from increased costs.

There's a great discussion about whether the convenience channel is fast enough to enact change, and Aman tells us how they do it in Dubai. We touch the value of marketing and focusing on your strengths - and going back to basics to stay relevant.

Meanwhile Atul talks us through how his hot food offer of curries, stews and pies is going (and how much time it is taking him), while Stefan reveals that he is the number one buyer of Double Deckers from Penge Sainsbury's.

It's a big start to the year in a lot of ways.

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