140 years of trading - what does that history means to a brand like Sainsbury's? Justin King explains.
Category: Health, Sports & Psychology
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Category: Health
The ability of intergroup contact to reduce prejudice is a well-researched area of psychology. However, as more and more contact takes place online, PhD student Julian Bond is working to understand whether this changes the effectiveness of intergroup contact and the potential implications for a more harmonious society.
Category: Psychology
This free course, Digital literacy: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing with information overload. The importance is emphasised throughout of developing a critical approach to life online, whether consuming or creating information. You will be encouraged to reflect on your own situation and to apply what you learn to real-life scenarios, using a digital skills plan to keep a record of progress.
Category: Education & Development
Get Online Week is an annual campaign to support those who don’t have access to a device or data to get connected. It has helped hundreds of thousands of people to get online for the first time and improve their digital skills.
Category: Learning
Introducing online art.
Category: Visual Art
A group of curators are turning their back on the more conventional ways of displaying art and use the Internet to host their gallery.
Category: Visual Art
In this free course you will focus on how to be a critical reader. Reading critically is an essential skill at university. It means being aware of your own purposes and opinions as you read and being able to recognise the writer's purposes and opinions in their writing.
Category: English Language
Please note: this course will close on 16th June 2022. You can continue to study this course up until this date.
In this free course, Summarising text, you will learn how to summarise. Summarising is useful both when completing assignments and while studying.
In this free course, Summarising text, you will learn how to summarise. Summarising is useful both when completing assignments and while studying.
Category: English Language
How do retailers decide where to locate new stores? Why do consumers behave in a particular manner? How does a frozen pea get from harvest to a supermarket freezer? How do independent and online businesses compete with high street chains? These are just some of the many questions answered throughout this collection of video material that looks in depth at the dynamic and innovative retail industry, and what the future might have in store for retailers and businesses alike. Store operations, globalisation, ethics, supply chains and retail environments are some other areas which are explored, while industry experts discuss the influence and power of the internet as a marketing and distribution tool.
This material forms part of The Open University course B122 An introduction to retail management and marketing.
This material forms part of The Open University course B122 An introduction to retail management and marketing.
Category: Money & Business
This Christmas, we have swapped the bustle of late night shopping for ordering online in our pyjamas and slippers. But what does it mean for the future of the High Street?
Category: Money & Business
Charles Tyrwhitt chairman Nick Wheeler argues that retailers should focus on customers and products, and not get carried away with the latest and greatest online developments
Category: Leadership & Management
Andy Street, Managing Director of the department store chain John Lewis, discusses the future of retail.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Justin King of Sainsburys explains why questions of environmental impact aren't as simple as they seem.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
The success of Avon rests on addressing some key questions.
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Many on-line services, such as Yahoo!, Egg and Amazon, have names that seem to be completely unrelated to the service on offer: so why do businesses use them?
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Can online gambling businesses avoid the rules which apply to companies in the real world?
Category: Business Strategy & Studies
Dr. Gabriel Reedy explains the positive impact price comparison sites have had on the consumer
Category: Accounting & Finance
Martyn Hocking from Which? magazine looks at the advantages of price comparison sites. Can you trust the sites to always find the best deal - and why should you approach their results with caution?
Category: Accounting & Finance
Price comparison sites can take the strain out of shopping in more ways than one, as Gabriel Reedy discovers first hand
Category: Accounting & Finance