Short sightedness
So being of sound mind and body I thought 'how can this City , my City take advantage of this better than our neighbours did' , contacted the local retail partnership and began communicating about various strategies etc , the MD of it (also MD of a local branch of large national brand) put it to the members (not many retailers attended the meet I guess due to school hols over here being away) but they communicated to their city neighbours fellow retailers who stated that retail there didn't see much of an increase following the promotion there so the ones in my City decided this isn't something they'd look to take further.
I mean are they stupid, it's not over I will be back to them, but the reason the retail didn't see much benefits is undoubtedly because they never had any strategies in place to take advantage of the increased visitors.
I mean hello derrrr, retards, I expected it of some but not really of the MD .
You don't just open your shop doors and hope people happen to walk by and in during their football visit.
Like I say I am going back to him with some well considered strategies and flowchart layouts to show expected development and how it should benefit enough retailer to be worthy of following up on, if not I will only be taking it to the local hospitality (restaurant/hotel) group instead
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