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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Independent parcel carrier Yodel is recruiting more than 4,300 new staff across its 50 nationwide locations to help it manage the peak period this year. Yodel handled 190 million parcels last year, a 30% increase in volume in 2020 compared to 2019.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

The American Book Association (ABA) measured 2,185 bookstore businesses, 2,599 locations, and over 300 more members in 2023 than it had in 2019, making its highest membership levels in over 20 years. In August 2019, Daunt was appointed as Barnes & Noble’s CEO, presumably to “save” the retailer in a similar manner.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2024

According to a recent Euromonitor report, while consumer food-service value nears pre-pandemic levels in 2024, dining-in at restaurants will not return to pre-pandemic level until 2028 in Asia Pacific. The report predicts that regular dining out will be off the menu for cost-conscious consumers until 2028. trillion in 2023.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Customer experience is almost as important to consumers as the product itself, and the experience of buying a luxury item directly from the designer is an area in which luxury brands are constantly investing. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world. billion in 2024.

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AUGUST 22, 2023

For instance, Adidas doubled its production of Germany’s women’s football merchandise compared to the previous Women’s World Cup in 2019. US-based online sportswear retailer Fanatics similarly saw sales of women’s soccer products increase by over 80 per cent compared to 2019.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Railpen, the investment manager for the £35bn Railways Pension Scheme, has announced Police, the Italian fashion accessories brand, has opened a new location in Caledonia Park, Scotland’s premier designer village. compared to 2019. During the recent Scottish half term week, footfall was up 2.4%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Having embraced digital shopping channels during the pandemic, Australian consumers have become well used to the personalisation and tailored content offered online. Research by Google, published in the company’s Spring/Summer Shopping Behaviours 2021 study, found 50 per cent of consumers say they now shop both in-store and online.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Fashion and footwear brand Etiko is rolling out new initiatives that bridge the gap between consumers and ethical and sustainable retail. This will] give them a more tangible outlook on how their consumer choice helps people and the planet,” said Etiko founder and director Nick Savaidis. The future of Etiko.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The streaming platform, which launched in late 2019, feeds behavioural data into AI algorithms to serve personalised viewing suggestions to its 118 million global paid subscribers. Eero Martela, General Manager of digital sales consultancy Columbia Road. imagery or messaging) that is also customised just for them.

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JUNE 25, 2019

The “real” retail experience – shopping, touching, tasting, feeling – is alive and well in 2019. That’s the goal for the remainder of 2019, and as we prepare for holiday shopping season. 2019 Holiday Shopping - Retail Experiences. And the pickup site is often strategically placed in a merchandise-rich location.

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Parcel Pending

MAY 19, 2024

Carrier Store Collection : Many carriers like UPS and FedEx offer package pickup at their retail locations. It’s easy to Google a convenient location on the road. These smart lockers allow you to conveniently collect your packages or drop off returns at accessible locations, whether staffed or unstaffed.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Additionally, located across the store, large state-of-the-art screens display the brand’s latest clothing, showing customers different ways to style New Look pieces whilst they are shopping. . compared to the same period in 2019, significantly out-performing the UK average of +0.3%. Sales are up 7.4%

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

L’Occitane purchased Dr Vranjes Firenze in January this year for a reported US$164 million, or approximately 12 times its core earnings, from Bluegum Capital Partners, a European private equity fund that specialises in consumer brands. Worldwide wherever you travel, you will find Dr Vranjes Firenze only at the most exclusive retail locations.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The announcement is linked to Coles’ plan to save a billion dollars over the next four years, and follows a 2019 big data deal with Microsoft , an effort to build robotic delivery centres , and the introduction of customer-tracking cameras and other high-tech security measures. A way of seeing Finally, vision.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Aldi, which only recently introduced self-serve checkout in Australia , announced last week that it would open its first checkout-free store on a trial basis, at a location in London that is yet to be confirmed. In 2019, 7-Eleven Australia removed physical checkout from the store at its head office in Melbourne.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

Retailers and consumers have been urged — or forced — to take their transactions into the digital marketplace. Statista, 2021) According to a digital retail survey conducted by KPMG and YouGov in 2019, 77 per cent of mainland respondents described themselves as “tech savvy.” New consumers. billion yuan in 2019.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Our customers have that flexibility which is a point of difference for us, [while] Myer One provides a different layer of value for the consumer,” he said. ‘It In saying that, if electricity, insurance and fuel prices continue to go up, that would certainly eat into older consumers’ incomes.” It sets us apart from other retailers.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I was CEO of General Pants at the time, and in 2019, we took the business independent. But by 2019, it was a healthy business, and it was always the plan for it to be an independent business down the track. The direct-to-consumer part of the business is the strongest and the fastest-growing now.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2023

With the return of tourism to New York after pandemic-related declines, luxury retailers are again betting on refreshed flagships to drive consumer interest and traffic. Brands are not going to pay a premium for brick-and-mortar locations that have been diluted by online sales,” Spiegelman said. in the first quarter of 2019 to 3.8%

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

According to Pop Mart’s global president Justin Moon, the company started expanding internationally in 2019, and did not slow down its efforts during the pandemic. We take an adaptive localisation approach, including localisation of management methods, manpower and products. Why Pavilion KL?

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JUNE 14, 2023

Announced in 2019 , the 34,000sqm store will be located at Sylvia Park in Auckland. Ikea Group’s expansion manager Fabian Winterbine told Inside Retail that New Zealand has been considered something of a “missing piece” for many years. “The

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

With consumer use of e-commerce said to have accelerated by up to five years in the first UK lockdown, some retailers were initially left floundering as panic buying ensued and supply chains were challenged to keep shelves stocked, as well as extend their home delivery capabilities. With e-commerce sales reaching 21.8%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The retailer currently operates 2,100 retail pharmacy locations across 17 states, but will be closing underperforming stores part of the restructuring process. In 2019, Walgreens said it would close 200 stores, and in June of this year, it announced an additional 150 closures.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2023

Here, we speak with the brand’s general manager, Van Mulryan, about the new Tag Heuer boutique in Adelaide, the increased demand for luxury items and how her upbringing has shaped her career. VM: We have seven stand-alone boutiques located all across Australia. It’s been a long time coming.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

One day in the not-too-distant future, consumers will be able to walk into mainstream retail stores and buy pleasure products like vibrators and dildos without raising an eyebrow. They have 10 stores [that are located] close to high-fashion brands, and they’re doing really well because they approach it that way.”.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

Consumer spending shifted online. Footfall was down by one third in July on the same month in 2019, according to the British Retail Consortium. This also applies to the customer experience, where retailers must meet soaring consumer expectations to recover and prosper. Covid-19 hit the retail sector hard. Shops were closed.

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JUNE 1, 2021

per cent against the first quarter of 2019 ( National Institute of Statistics). The first outlet centre, which opened over 12 years ago in 2008, is located on the western side of Bucharest, in Militari. The country’s GDP increased by 0.3 per cent compared to the previous quarter and was up 2.4

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Many businesses have been forced to reduce their trading hours – particularly small business and regional locations, where staff are harder to find, and the absence of one or two staff can make a significant difference to operating opportunities.”. per cent respectively, according to Seek research. Do you offer additional leave entitlements?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In keeping with this, the Causeway Bay location, brought to life by Stefano Tordiglione Design Studio, includes a number of eco-conscious design elements, such as recyclable aluminium, renewable wood, lead-free eco-cement and upcycled appliances. Fast Slow Food. In 2015, I sold my shares in Mana!

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In just 10 years, Vietnamese fashion retail operator Maison Retail Management International (MRMI) has built a network of more than 120 retail stores across 18 high-profile international fashion brands. That said, we focus on brands that have the potential to scale and meet consumer needs.”. Since then, the brand has opened 10 more.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

In China, online to offline (O2O) was the fastest growing channel in 2020, particularly for affluent consumers in tier-one cities, combining fast delivery, security through contactless interactions and a wide range of in-demand goods — mainly fresh food and personal care items. There can be no doubts about the opportunity. WeChat and chat.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

2019 estimates from the NYU Furman Center show the Greenwich Village/SoHo neighborhood is home to more than 164,000 people. SoHo is definitely back,” says Sophie Winckel, New York resident and Direct to Consumer and Concept Store Marketing Manager at Adidas (Portland, Ore.). THE PULSE.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2023

At the end of last year, the company became the only health and beauty chain to survive the pandemic, after its main competitors, Lalavla (previously Watsons) and Lohb’s shuttered most of their bricks-and-mortar locations. Since 2019, the retailer has been diversifying its business internationally. star rating on Amazon UAE.

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Parcel Pending

MARCH 25, 2024

billion in 2019 to a mere $390 million in 2021. Improve Community Safety Although safety must balance perceptions vs. reality, a recent Parcel Pending by Quadient consumer survey revealed that 50% of residents feel parcel lockers would make their community safer. Parcel Pandemonium: Managing the Challenges of Growing E-Commerce.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Consumers’ willingness to drop hundreds of dollars on the latest releases from Nike, Adidas, Yeezy and other hyped-up brands is fuelling the growth of premium sneaker and streetwear retailer Subtype, which is set to open its fifth bricks-and-mortar store on November 20. billion in revenue this year, which is slightly down from 2019.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consumers are increasingly turning to trusted brands, a trend we expect to see continue. As a recent report from Deloitte found, “In a time of so much uncertainty, when daily decisions about personal safety and financial wellbeing are made, most consumers are reaching for brands they trust. But not everyone is this successful.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online. In the 2021 financial year, the number of payments on card rose to 12 billion, a 22 per cent increase on 2019 and up by more than 4 billion since 2017. Yet cash payments are expensive for businesses to manage.

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