{"id":1746,"date":"2014-05-22T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:37:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:37:52","slug":"final-year-retail-management-students-reveal-their-plans-for-rejuvenating-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/05\/22\/final-year-retail-management-students-reveal-their-plans-for-rejuvenating-poole\/","title":{"rendered":"Final year Retail Management students reveal their plans for rejuvenating Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real life consultancy projects for final year students provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase their ideas, and this year an opportunity emerged a little closer to home.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Retail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dolphin Shopping Centre in Poole has been a major talking point in recent years. Consumers feel that Poole (as a destination) is let down by its shopping experience, and competition from West Quay (Southampton) and Gunwharf Quays (Portsmouth) is in a different class. However, BU Retail Management students took on the challenge of how to rejuvenate the shopping experience in Poole.<\/p>\n

Following a brief set out by Poole\u2019s economic development manager, Adrian Trevett, and BU lecturer, David Kilburn, a group of students presented three concepts to John Grinnell, the centre manager of the Dolphin Shopping Centre and the current owners of Legal and General Property (L&G). These concepts included a restaurant parade located in the Falkland Square walkway, a shipping container market situated on Poole Quay and an omni-channel retailing platform.<\/p>\n

The omni-channel retailing concept was designed to bring all retailers at both ends of the high street together on one multi-channel platform. The service would provide a \u2018click and collect\u2019 hub and a home delivery service, where orders could be placed online by phone or at \u2018interactive hubs\u2019 proposed by the students.<\/p>\n

Adrian Trevett said: \u201d I am keen to try and push some of their ideas and I particularly liked the logo and slogan the students created for the project.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Grinnell added: \u201cIt was fantastic to see the students\u2019 enthusiasm for the project, some of the ideas they put forward were really well thought out and very creative. They had a great understanding of the Poole community and had carried out extensive research for their project.\u201d<\/p>\n

Commenting on the group\u2019s presentation was BU student, Nicola Beattie: \u201cEveryone seemed to be impressed with our suggestions and we had fantastic feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Paul Fripp<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally posted on The School of Tourism Blog.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Real life consultancy projects for final year students provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase their ideas, and this year an opportunity emerged a little closer to home. The Dolphin Shopping Centre in Poole has been a major talking point in recent years. Consumers feel that Poole (as a destination) is let down by its shopping… Read more » about Final year Retail Management students reveal their plans for rejuvenating Poole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,283,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,291,290,69,40],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-news-2","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-retail-management","tag-school-of-tourism","tag-students","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}