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Ebay culls 500 roles worldwide

Inside Retail

E-commerce platform Ebay is set to lay off 500 employees globally – about 4 per cent of its workforce. They also help us make sure we’re concentrating on where we can make the biggest impact, including expanding focus categories, creating trusted experiences and investing in new technologies,” said Iannone.

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Is this the end of Australia’s supermarket duopoly?

Inside Retail

The competition watchdog will determine whether Woolworths and Coles’ claims of price increases are due to cost pressures from suppliers and their workforce hold-up. Competition should be the leveller in this category and it raises the question of whether we have enough of it in the Australian supermarket category.”

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Redbubble slashes staff, overheads – and looks to rebrand

Inside Retail

Redbubble Group, which operates marketplaces for artists – Redbubble and TeePublic, has laid off 141 staff members, or 37 per cent of its workforce, in FY23 as part of cost-saving measures. The cost-cutting initiatives fall into three categories – cost of doing business, brand and people, explained Martin Hosking, Group CEO and MD. “To

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How smart new technologies are improving sales and reducing costs for retailers

Inside Retail

The Workcloud products fall within four categories: workforce optimisation, enterprise collaboration, demand forecasting and inventory optimisation. Workforce management tools For most retailers, their largest controllable expense is their workforce, which should make focusing on getting the best out of them a priority. “A

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Price, not volume, driving Australian retail sales growth

Inside Retail

per cent over the year, with the spending spree particularly centred around discretionary categories,” says the report’s author David Rumbens. . The report concludes that the post-Covid spending spree has been particularly centred around discretionary categories including department stores, apparel and catered food.

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Retail experts talk talent pipeline in wake of gender pay gap reporting

Inside Retail

Despite being predominantly run by women, who make up an estimated 66 per cent of the total retail workforce in Australia, the retail industry continues to grapple with the underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions and the persistent gender pay gap.

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From sky high to ruffled feathers – behind Allbirds’ struggle to diversify

Inside Retail

The financial results followed the termination of 21 staff members this month – representing nine per cent of the brand’s corporate workforce – and a management reshuffle, with co-founder and then-co-CEO Tim Brown moving to a non-executive role. Its gross margin declined from 51.9

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