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Value vs values: How will customers respond to The Iconic allegations?

Inside Retail

According to a statement provided to Inside Retail by The Iconic, an internal review of the company’s payroll systems identified underpayments and overpayments of casual employees – with 814 current and former employees impacted between 2013-2020. For there to be any real change, the management responsible must go,” she said.

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Why the Kmart-Target back end merger has been a decade in the making

Inside Retail

For now, the businesses will remain separate in the eyes of the consumer, though they will share systems in the back end, such as having a single tech-stack. Wesfarmers ultimately didn’t move forward with that plan, and instead decided to double down and invest in Kmart and Target independently.

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Officeworks acquires Brisbane-based enterprise to launch Circonomy

Inside Retail

The WBGS started in 2013 in a garage and is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise that repairs, repurposes and res-sells imperfect and unwanted products. Officeworks has acquired 21 per cent of WBGS’s shares and plans on helping the company expand the business into a new brand of national repair and recovery service called Circonomy. “We

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Dick Smith, Burger King, David Jones: Is it third time lucky for Anchorage?

Inside Retail

Anchorage struck gold with the $20 million acquisition of the Dick Smith consumer electronics chain from Woolworths Group in November 2012. Woolworths had written off more than $420 million restructuring the business, which was Australia’s largest consumer electronics chain by store count.

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What’s next for David Jones under Anchorage Capital? Analysts weigh in

Inside Retail

How involved will Anchorage be in the management of David Jones going forward? Walker noted that Anchorage has said it is committed to supporting David Jones CEO Scott Fyfe and his turnaround plan, which involves investing in stores and the customer experience. We’ve seen a general consumer trend away from department stores.”.

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What Nordstrom’s Paul Smith pop-up says about the future of this retail trend

Inside Retail

One of the key trends that defined retail in 2023 was pop-up shops and how these experiential shopping experiences have taken hold over millennial and Gen Z consumers. Pop-ups are one way Nordstrom has been trying to drive sales and draw in younger, more trend-savvy consumer groups.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

7-Eleven names new general manager of channel. Fiona Hayes (pictured) has been appointed 7-Eleven’s general manager of channel, following almost three decades at Telstra. Du Retail joined L’Oreal France in 1996 and has worked in a variety of fields, including management, operations, finance, and e-commerce.

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