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Fireside Chat: Government – Helping Or Hindering Retail Innovation, Growth & Investment?
The interviewer will ask the interviewee some of the following questions as well as asking the audience to ask some questions of their own
- Tell us a bit about your job, the BRC and what it does to support British retail?
- What is your helicopter view of the state of the retail market currently and where it’s headed?
- How do government actions affect the industry and it’s retailers and why should growth, investment and innovation in retail matter to the Government?
- What are the big Government topics we retailers should be concerned about?
- The number of retail jobs has fallen in recent years. What factors do you think have contributed to this decline? What can be done about it and are retail jobs still important?
- What’s your view on the impact of AI on the retail industry and what’s happening with investment in this space and why?
- How do you see the shift towards retail media changing the retail landscape going forward?
- Overall, do you think Government policy is helping or hindering retail innovation, growth and investment?
- What do you think the Government should be doing differently?
- What advice would you have for retail leaders over the next three years?
