{"id":2470,"date":"2014-05-22T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T10:09:46","slug":"final-year-retail-management-students-reveal-their-plans-for-rejuvenating-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/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":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/05\/Retail-students-in-Poole.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2471\" alt=\"Retail students in Poole\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/05\/Retail-students-in-Poole-1024x610.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/05\/Retail-students-in-Poole-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/05\/Retail-students-in-Poole-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2014\/05\/Retail-students-in-Poole.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>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<p>Following a brief set out by Poole&#8217;s 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 Legal and General Property (L&amp;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<p>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&#8217; hub and a home delivery service, where orders could be placed online by phone or at \u2018interactive hubs&#8217; proposed by the students.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Trevett said: &#8221; 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Grinnell added: &#8220;It was fantastic to see the students&#8217; 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the group&#8217;s presentation was BU student, Nicola Beattie: &#8220;Everyone seemed to be impressed with our suggestions and we had fantastic feedback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By: Paul Fripp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2014\/05\/22\/final-year-retail-management-students-reveal-their-plans-for-rejuvenating-poole\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Final year Retail Management students reveal their plans for rejuvenating Poole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,8],"tags":[367,369,368,370],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-student-experience","tag-david-kilburn","tag-doplhin-shopping-centre","tag-poole","tag-retail-mana"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}