Retail director Anthony Thompson said "stores getting busier" had meant a "big increase in workload".
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He left the company for senior positions at Matalan and Iceland before returning as retail director in 2005.
Tesco's retail director David Potts said that consumers were the first to tell the supermarket how to improve what it does.
The industry would have to be radically reshaped to cope with the loss of aviation, says Jason Rodgers, retail director of the British Florist Association.
The brewery's retail director Philip Lay said it would be modelled on its Mediterranean-themed Grape and Olive venue in Cardiff and will share the same name.
Earlier this year, the Enchantment started putting a couple of full-sized bottles of local wine and chocolate-covered grapes atop a cabinet next to the television, a move toward "suggestive selling" says Kelly Dunagan-Johnson, the hotel's retail director.
Scottish Retail Consortium director Ian Shearer said the decline in sales had "set alarm bells ringing" for Scottish retailers.
British Retail Consortium director general Stephen Robertson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Easter holidays were good for shops, representing the start of the season for DIY and garden centres.
"It's the beginning of the holiday season for the retail industry, " says Mike Gatti, executive director of the retail advertising and marketing association at NRF.
However, Bryan Roberts, director of retail insight at consultants Kantar Retail, was more sceptical about its chances.
Rahul Sharma, director of retail consultancy Neev Capital, said Morrisons was also suffering from a resurgent Tesco.
"It has been a long time coming, " in the words of Neil Saunders, managing director of retail consultancy Conlumino.
"What we don't want to do is talk ourselves into another recession, " said Conrad Rowland, a director at Retail Dynamics.
"Ido intrigued us, " recalls Kena Guyton, director of retail marketing at Walgreens.
Neil Saunders, managing director of retail analysts Conlumino, said promotions and store refurbishments had helped Debenhams to "buck the market this summer and gain market share across a number of clothing categories".
The British Retail Consortium's director of public affairs, Jane Bevis, said the guidelines provided "extra reassurance for parents that these companies are just as concerned as they are about what their children wear".
Richard Perks, director of Retail Research at industry analysis company MINTEL, said Europe's luxury brands have remained relatively unaffected by reduced retail spending because the global consumer base for luxury goods is growing.
"We fully understand that one of the biggest worries facing homeowners in financial difficulty is the thought of losing their home, and this is especially true given the current economic climate, " RBS managing director of retail banking, Craig Donaldson, said in a statement.
"UK egg producers have worked hard to meet high welfare standards ahead of parts of Europe, " the British Retail Consortium's food director Andrew Opie said.
Food director of British Retail Consortium, Andrew Opie said that there is "a variation in price between those in the top quarter of dairy production and those who aren't and farmers who are lucky are those in supermarket supply chains".
But Fiona Moriarty, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, which represents the big four supermarkets, said small businesses needed bigger ones to survive.
The CFA Institute, a nonprofit association of financial analysts, also is working on new standards for presenting returns to retail clients, says an executive director there, Jonathan Boersma.
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The appeal is to investors who expect the market to go up, but only a little, explains Satch Chada, managing director in charge of retail structured products at Merrill Lynch: "In a 5% interest rate market you're able to get a 14% return, " he says.
"There's no evidence here of any Olympic boost to retail sales overall, " said BRC director general Stephen Robertson.
The decision was described as a dramatic step, by Professor Steve Burt, Director of the Institute of Retail Studies at Stirling University.
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The present system, says Robin Dickie, the managing director of the firm's retail business, is inefficient.
David Dorf, senior director of technology strategy, Oracle Retail, picked up on the theme.
Alfred Cheng, executive director of the Singapore-listed Parkson Retail Asia Ltd. (PRA) and part of the family that owns the chain, believes his stores will be able to successfully penetrate the Indonesian market.
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"If you think about it, you can build a community around any retail category, " says Michael Sullivan-Trainor, director of Internet research at IDC in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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