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LSKD appoints first chief retail officer as part of its “audacious” growth plan

Inside Retail

Customer experience LSKD has ‘audacious’ growth plans for the next few years and Shaughnessy is expected to play a key role in helping the brand create a unique in-store experience and ensuring the right products are stocked in each store. Part of this expansion strategy is to give LSKD customers the ability to shop directly with the brand.

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Reject Shop brushes off wage theft class action as ‘immaterial’

Inside Retail

Discount retailer The Reject Shop is facing a class action lawsuit for “purported underpayments” to staff, launched by specialist law firm Adero Law Between February 2016 and April 2021, seven former employees of the discount retailer allege underpayment during their employment with the company.

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Super Saturday predicted to be UK’s busiest in-store shopping day of Peak Trading, according to Sensormatic Solutions

Retail Focus

Sensormatic Solutions , the leading global retail solutions portfolio of Johnson Controls , today announced its predictions for the UK’s busiest shopping days of Peak Trading 2023. This compares to 38% of shoppers who planned to buy Christmas gifts online on Amazon Prime Big Deals Day last week (10 and 11 October).

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TK Maxx to open first store in Perth

Inside Retail

Discount retailer TK Maxx is set to open its first store in Perth’s Ocean Keys Shopping Centre, Clarkson on October 5. Since its expansion into Australia in 2017, the retailer has opened 78 stores including the new TK Maxx store in WA. The post TK Maxx to open first store in Perth appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Scentre Group to sell half share in Westfield Whitford City

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Scentre Group is looking for an investor interested in taking a 50-per-cent stake in its Westfield Whitford City shopping mall in WA. Colliers’ MD of retail capital markets for Asia Pacific, Lachlan MacGillivray, has been appointed to sell the shopping centre stake through an expression of interest campaign.

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“Not surprised”: Experts react to Amazon’s reported department store plan

Inside Retail

More recently, the company’s offline efforts have been in the convenience space, with the launch of its cashierless Amazon Go stores, and grocery, following its acquisition of the upscale US grocery chain Whole Foods in 2017. And it would come at a time when some long-running department stores are closing up shop.

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‘Little veins of gold’: How Tony Nash plans to grow Booktopia

Inside Retail

Nash plans to follow a similar strategy when he becomes chief growth officer. . “My We’ve got a lot of talented people here, we’ve got a direction and a plan,” said Nash, who ranked third on Inside Retail’s 2022 Top 50 People in E-Commerce. . I wish it was more complicated than that.

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