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Bunnings’ pet play: a market-disrupting combination with impeccable timing

Inside Retail

Don’t let the latest retail sales figures fool you. In 2015, a formal policy was introduced to allow dogs, provided they are either in a trolley or muzzled on a lead. Times are tough for some already and getting tougher for more before they get better. At least, that’s what the economists are telling us.

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Crisis in UK retail: unpacking retail crime amidst losses of $4 billion

Inside Retail

Over 200 major retailers are members of the BRC and thousands of smaller independent retailers operate across all retail channels and categories. Together, these businesses deliver over £350 billion ($443 billion) of retail sales per year. Online fraud has increased over threefold to £99.7

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What Meta’s move away from Instagram Shopping means for retailers

Inside Retail

Best I know, none of them got much traction with retailers nor, more importantly, with users. It started with Facebook Shop, which was launched in 2015. Of all the retailers I’ve worked with, I’ve never seen it come up as a channel of importance. There have been many attempts at making Facebook and Instagram shoppable.

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Vietnam’s Vincom shifts focus from expansion to upgrades

Inside Retail

The slowdown in openings is understandable after a breathtaking four-year period from 2015-19 when Vincom opened more than 50 malls. This situation will now take time to unwind, since better retailers are squeamish about opening a lot of stores with e-commerce so strong and spending power in secondary locations still weak. per cent.

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Christmas sales bigger than Black Friday

Barber Design

Latest Sales Figures. Hot off the press, the figures published in the latest BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor report that the total amount of retails sales climbed to 1.7% during the five weeks up to December 31st, when compared to the same month in 2015. on a total sales basis.

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Analysis: How Vietnam’s malls are riding the wave of recovery

Inside Retail

Retail sales in Vietnam enjoyed year-on-year growth of 11.7 Vincom’s stock recovered, and the company went on to report a dazzling second-quarter and first-half performance. Bouncing back. Right now, just about everything is going Vincom’s way. per cent in the first half of calendar year 2022. Vincom currently has 1.7