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Comment on Love your local market campaign by John

John — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 15:36:28 +0000

After visiting the NABMA site to see what this is all about, I cant help but comment.
Confused? I know I am, So what exactly are we promoting, a National Market Day which is not a day but in fact lasts for a fortnight or, Love your local market, or both?

Add to the mix a new logo, for the love your local market campaign, which quite honestly needs more than 5 minutes thought.

Statements from the industry “this is a huge profile raising opportunity for markets”, and “we wish to make national market day something the industry can be proud of and demonstrate the true value of markets”.

My advise, engage a professional marketing firm to sort out this mess before the opportunity is completely wasted.
Its either National market day, National market fortnight or Love your Local market, not a day that lasts for a fortnight and is then called something else, how utterly confusing for the public and marketeers alike.

If this industry is to prove its worth, to represent itself on a professional level, then its about time it started doing just that.

If you dont have the skills to produce professional marketing material, rather than let the industry down as a whole, engage professionals to do the job.

This is a reflection on the entire industry and all of those people in it, if this industry wants to be taken seriously, it should respect the worth of the people who work in it and represent them to the best of its ability, it seriously needs to lift its game.

Comment on Time for the High Street to move on by Kevin Trotter

Kevin Trotter — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:25:32 +0000

You are right we do have to live the large out of town shopping centres, and yes the national and multi national chains have flocked to these and will never return to the traditional town centres. Howevre it is only those type of retailers who can afford the huge costs of operating from there and the customers only want those stores. I speak from experience when we took on shopping centre unit for a years trial and quickly found that consumers expect a different ‘self serve’type of shopping experience and not the high standard of customer service we pride ourselves in.
So yes we do need to revitalise the high streets and make them a fun place to be, but the existing independent retailers do not need further competion from market stalls undercutting them, it is already difficult fighting aginst the charity shops.
Music, speciallity fairs, events etc all well and good but who organises and funds them?
I don’t think there is any one single answer to the problem and as independent retailers we do need to start working together and fighting back

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