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The China Syndrome: Japan department stores missing tourist shoppers

Inside Retail

Isetan-Mitsukoshi is a storied department store chain with 15 units in Japan, including five in the Tokyo metropolitan area. One of them, the Isetan flagship in Shinjuku, boasts the highest sales of any department store in Japan. Sales at Isetan-Mitsukoshi’s Tokyo metro stores are up 33.3 billion yen, or about $2.5

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Inside Designworks’ four-pronged expansion strategy

Inside Retail

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. According to Norton, Designwoks plans to expand in four key areas. We have a Coles business and a volume department store business, and because they have FMCG offerings, it meant that they were open a lot of the lockdown,” she said. “We

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Department Stores – what does the future hold?

Retail Focus

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

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Macy’s Closing Four More Department Stores

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Macy’s (New York) is set to shutter four more department stores in in the first quarter of 2023 as part of its ongoing Polaris transformation strategy, according to Retail Dive and several other news sources. The affected stores are in these malls: * Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza; Los Angeles.

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How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers

Inside Retail

We have continuously worked with all our tenants to come up with robust marketing strategies to encourage customer traffic and spending, including creating promotional areas at high traffic areas, assisting with shopping and dining vouchers, and continuing with our shopper rewards and redemption programs.

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Three key takeaways from Wesfarmers’ strategy day

Inside Retail

On Thursday morning, the heads of Wesfarmers’ retail businesses, Bunnings, Kmart, Target, Catch and Officeworks, presented their growth strategies to investors at the company’s annual strategy day. Bunnings recently opened the first new format Adelaide Tools store in Parafield, South Australia. Here are three key takeaways.

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Myer’s latest trading update is a testament to putting the customer first

Inside Retail

Myer currently operates 56 department stores across Australia, as well as its online business and in-house brands including Sass and Bide, Marcs and David Lawrence. per cent increase is a case of under-promising and over-delivering, the department store CEO is taking the win as a sign of more growth to come. “We