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Opinion: Consumers’ screen times gives shopping centres a headache

Inside Retail

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. The Covid-19 disruption has closed some businesses while accelerating a contraction of store networks many chains had started before the pandemic forced trading restrictions and lockdowns.

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What Rite Aid’s collapse reveals about the challenges of pharmacy retail

Inside Retail

Since filing for bankruptcy last week, pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid has received interim approval to access up to US$3.45 The fall of the pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid isn’t the only pharmaceutical retailer in the US that is facing financial challenges.

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Why a major rent reset didn’t occur following the Covid-19 pandemic

Inside Retail

For a while, it was looking like a meaningful downward rent reset at shopping centres was a real possibility. Why this hasn’t occurred The trouble is that leases turn over on a gradual basis, somewhere between 10-20 per cent of leases in a shopping centre every year, depending on the country and what kind of shopping centre it is.

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Analysis: The driving force behind Hong Kong’s retail revolution

Inside Retail

Retailers and consumers have been urged — or forced — to take their transactions into the digital marketplace. But for Mainland China, this online shopping behaviour has long been considered normal. New consumers. Homegrown brands such as Alibaba and Tencent continue to grow in popularity amongst the nation’s consumers.

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For Singapore’s Capitaland, the mall comes roaring back

Inside Retail

Despite brave talk by shopping-centre companies, not just in Singapore but globally, about being able to adapt to e-commerce and continue to thrive, behind the scenes they have never been truly comfortable with the e-commerce juggernaut. Retail occupancy is 98.3 per cent – pretty much as good as it gets for shopping centres.

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Why this global CEO wants more mainstream retailers to sell sex toys

Inside Retail

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. Meet the modern sex shop. The French adult retail chain Passage du Désir is a good example of this, Plettenberg said.