Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2022

Retailers will no longer be able to host any new or scheduled Live Shopping events on Facebook from October 1, according to a statement by parent Meta. Meta says retailers will still be able to use Reels on Instagram as a live shopping feature. The Live Shopping feature was launched two years ago after a series of small trials.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since entering Southeast Asia in 2020, GMG has opened 31 stores in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. GMG plans to open 11 SSS stores – and 100 new stores overall – in Southeast Asia by 2025. These countries share a commitment to innovation, aligning seamlessly with our long-term growth and expansion plans,” he added.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to McKinsey , “the first half of 2020 saw an increase in e-commerce equivalent to that of the previous 10 years.” The e-commerce revolution has been spearheaded by businesses themselves and that growth is only expected to continue into 2022 as 75 per cent of retail executives have said they plan to improve online integration. .

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Retail Focus

MAY 11, 2021

Over the last year, restrictions around ceremonies and receptions have halted or postponed over 150,000 couples’ plans – that’s over 60% of the number of weddings scheduled to happen in 2020. Newly engaged couples are struggling to find wedding venues, booked up far in advance.?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Statista noted a 14 per cent decrease in diamond jewelry sales in 2020 from the year prior, due to factors like store closures, wedding cancellations, and varying closures or delays of diamond mining caused by the pandemic. per cent of diamond engagement rings sold in the US in February were set with lab-grown diamonds.

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2023

The vast majority are really engaged and – should they wish to leave – we don’t block them, which is quite unique in this industry.” The brand’s new tagline – dream it, style it, live it – is part of this campaign, with the company seeking to engage with its customers during the “dream it” stage. “We don’t tell our members what to do.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

In today’s new normal, the shopping experience is no longer defined by the boundaries of bricks-and-mortar, but by the customer journey as a whole. Consumers now expect retailers to engage them whenever and wherever they want, with a shopping experience tailored to their individual needs. Creating cohesive customer experiences.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The chain, which is owned by Super Retail Group , has received two Retailer Awards for its rCX store concept, which first launched in Doncaster, Victoria, in March 2020, and had since been rolled out to 11 stores across the country. She said that the revamped website was designed with that goal in mind.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Onwards and upwards Despite launching just a few years ago in 2020, Minimalist has quickly gained a following in India. We use TikTok Shops to reach and engage with our target audience effectively by creating engaging content, collaborating with influencers, and offering exclusive promotions,” he explained.

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Inside Retail

MAY 16, 2024

As revealed by a survey Statista conducted worldwide, 82 per cent of weddings globally that was supposed to take place in April 2020 were postponed and 11 per cent were canceled. However, she did disclose that there are plans to host further pop-ups in Asia and European cities like Paris.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

Rama Suparta: The traditional way of shopping for eyewear is not fun and it’s expensive: 1. Saturdays redefined the offline shopping experience with glasses displayed in a modern cafe. RS: We aspire to provide an unmatched experience for customers who have been accustomed to shopping for eyewear in dull and conventional manners.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Brands that successfully surfed 2020’s first wave of Covid-impacted consumer behaviour changes have now learned that was the best and longest ride. The reality is that 2020 was a year like no other. Key to all elements of service delivery is a highly engaged workforce.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite a slight dip in 2020, the global apparel market is set to grow to about US$2 trillion by 2028, from US$1.79 It is one of the world’s largest aggregators for independent and DTC brands, which sell through Verishop’s website and mobile app, and provides new ways to shop with personalised content feeds and livestream shopping.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

Murphy opened his first bottle shop in 1952 in Chapel Street, Prahran, Victoria, and differentiated the business by offering a guarantee to beat competitors’ prices. We haven’t seen any indication of customers trading down when it comes to the products they shop for with us,” Pfeiffer-Smith said. per cent in 2020. Download here.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2021

UK-based Pepco Group, the owner of discount chains Poundland and Dealz, is planning a major European expansion which is expected to create about 13,000 new jobs, according to Reuters. billion in sales in 2020, an increase of nearly 22 per cent in comparison to a year earlier. The psychology behind bargain hunting.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

The retail industry in Malaysia has struggled during Covid, but shopping centre Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur has continued to find a way to reach consumers. It’s encouraging to observe similar trends in countries like China, where trends such as “revenge shopping” are aiding the country’s speedy economic recovery.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2023

We were given the opportunity to buy the brand in late 2019, and after months of negotiations plus a number of setbacks due to Covid, we finally took over in August 2020. As our official takeover aligned with Melbourne’s lockdown in August 2020, we had to think of new ways to maintain our connection to our customer.

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Retailing Insight

JANUARY 23, 2021

Though retailers may feel as if they are facing an uncertain future, particularly because stay-at-home advisories are being reimplemented as the pandemic surges again in the winter months, the good news is that the traditional, in-person shopping experience is still valued by the majority of consumers. One-of-a-Kind Items.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2021

As a result, the industry unlocked and fulfilled five years of online retail growth in just six months through a patchwork of band-aids and gut-led experiments – effectively realising 2025 sales levels in 2020. per cent points in the five years to October 2020, reaching about 9.8 per cent for the 2020 year by October — up from 17.1

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

Four ex-Catch Group senior executives – Jon Beros, Russell Proud, Kalman Polak and Guy Polak – have teamed up to form Little Birdie, a new online shopping site that officially launched on Tuesday. We see Little Birdie as being the new homepage of shopping,” Beros, Little Birdie’s CEO, told Inside Retail. until 2020. until 2020.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Yet, whereas progress in the past has been about making significant investments and bold plans, today’s narrative is around frugal innovation. Indeed, consumer attitudes to e-commerce are emboldening: 33 per cent say shopping online allows them to budget more effectively and make their money go further. Payments must follow.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2023

In early 2020, we had just opened our first retail store at QV in Melbourne and had plans to open more, and we had countless products coming down the pipeline. IR: What is your approach to e-commerce and bricks-and-mortar, and where do you see in-store shopping going in 2023? IR: How do you plan to expand the business in 2023?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2022

Inside Retail : I understand Sheike is planning to expand to South Australia. Sandra Kennedy: We’re planning on opening the store in the middle of this year, and we’re very excited because it’s actually our first SA store in the portfolio, and it will also be our first strip store, so our first store outside of a centre.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2022

She has led the business through a period of rapid growth, while creating a long-term expansion plan centred around customer engagement. In 2020, co-founders Kate Morris and James Height were looking for an experienced executive to lead the business through its next phase of growth as a publicly listed company.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

For fall/winter 2023, our objective is to further engage with EIPs. We plan to grow this segment by ensuring these customers invest more in their wardrobe and by ensuring new customers are making considered purchases. How do you plan to leverage them? Some prefer a seasonal touch-base, while many are on WhatsApp daily.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2022

Retailers know they need to use technology to enable consumers to shop wherever and whenever they want. Delivery has become a clear indicator of retailer competence, defining the brand value as much as any other part of the customer engagement. It’s no secret that consumers prefer fast delivery. Your carrier represents your brand.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2021

For Apple, the answer is keeping what helped it through the pandemic, and doubling down on its pre-pandemic strategy of in-store events and experiences beyond shopping. Apple boomed during the pandemic, hitting $2 trillion in market capitalization in August 2020 and setting records for sales of iPhones and several other categories.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Combined with a live chat solution that will enable T2 staff to answer questions and share product knowledge, the retailer hopes to make online shopping feel more personal and engaging — like a bricks-and-mortar store visit — in future. Record online sales. These products will be a key area of focus for T2 in 2022. .

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The couple, who share a home in Billericay, Essex, is Carlene Noel, 40, who runs Carlene’s Closet, a personal styling and shopping business and Danny Sains, 47, who’s due to open his own pie and mash business, Sainsy’s, next week in Brentwood, Essex. They have tied the knot making full use of one of Selfridges’ three micro-wedding packages.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

But the reality is, today, The Shop Around the Corner would stand a much better chance of survival, thanks to the revival of indie bookstores in recent years. It is with a similar plan that Barnes & Noble has begun to shift its image from a large corporation to a welcoming “indie” version of a bookstore chain.

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2021

Since then, the brand has focused on elevating its service proposition, unifying the brand’s on- and offline experiences to better engage customers. Now Aje is planning to finally enter the Perth market, with the launch of a permanent store at Karrinyup Shopping Centre. On the runway you’ll see an explosion of colour from the.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2023

According to the Australian Financial Review , Qantas Loyalty brought in $905 million in underlying earnings between the 2020 and 2022 financial year. Qantas Loyalty CEO Olivia Wirth said the platform offers members a seamless and premium shopping experience that rewards them for every purchase. The airline had 14.7

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2022

A headless architecture enables businesses to use different solutions for every aspect of their website, such as search, personalisation and the shopping cart, rather than having a single piece of software with a few bolt-on applications for specific business functions. Flying the plane, rebuilding in the background. per cent in FY21, to $90.8

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The ‘secret sauce’ for Sheet Society is bringing the look, feel and shopping experience of clothes fashion to manchester and bedding. Hayley Worley: Sheet Society was, at its core, born of a desire to make shopping for sheets uncomplicated and accessible. HW: Traditionally, we shopped for sheets in department stores.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

More than a digital phenomenon, the change represents an entire shift in the power dynamic between buyer and seller, revolutionising not just how things are bought but, more importantly, how people shop and why. Just like internet shopping did, it will change people’s shopping behaviour and as a result bring radical change.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Whilst 2020 was about dealing with the outcomes of the acceleration of e-commerce and omnichannel, in 2021, retailers were trying to cope with a perfect storm of demand and supply issues, including international shipping uncertainty, loss of capacity, increased costs – even a lack of containers and pallets.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Given the three-fold increase we saw in same-day deliveries during 2020, it’s clear today’s customers aren’t willing to wait and we expect that trend to continue,” Shippit co-founder Rob Hango-Zada said.

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