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Don’t inbox-watch: How Officeworks’ merchandise GM balances his attention

Inside Retail

After almost 30 years in the retail industry, Officeworks general manager of merchandising Jim Berndelis has gained plenty of experience and life lessons. From there, I’ve worn many hats in our support office and in various roles across the merchandise function: from demand planning to buying to buying manager.

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Can Allbirds make a comeback with a new CEO and transformation plan?

Inside Retail

Co-founded by Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger in 2015, the company quickly became a hit amongst Silicon Valley-types and raised over US$200 million from venture capital investors, including Tiger Global Management, Lerer Hippeau, and Maveron. Its valuation surged to over US$4 billion on its first day of trading in November 2021.

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Google puts third-party cookies on hold again: what you need to know

Inside Retail

Yep, Google has once again pushed back its plan to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. Google first announced its plan to deprecate cookies in January 2020, aiming for a phase-out within two years. Prioritise your own data collection and management. Sorry, what are third-party cookies again?

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“We did not do enough”: Woolworths cans plans for Darwin Dan Murphy’s

Inside Retail

Woolworths Group has pulled the plug on plans to open a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin after an independent panel ruled that the development should not go ahead. Bowden said the ferocity of purchase in grocery is, unsurprisingly, “just not what it was” in March 2020. “As Total Group sales reached $16.5 billion, a 0.4

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4 Strategies For Smarter Space Planning In A Distributed Workplace

All Work

A workplace that’s conducive to distributed work has a good balance of open areas to support collaboration and closed, private spaces for meetings or individual work. . While the answers may vary, organizations that apply these four workplace planning strategies will get the insights they need to make the right decisions.

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Why the Kmart-Target back end merger has been a decade in the making

Inside Retail

Wesfarmers ultimately didn’t move forward with that plan, and instead decided to double down and invest in Kmart and Target independently. But while Target initially seemed to be in a strong position, there was a lack of stability and understanding of what made the business tick within its management ranks.

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How to ensure Black Friday doesn’t become the nightmare before Christmas

Inside Retail

Heading into November are we meant to be planning for Christmas, or making the most of these big sales events (we’ll use ‘BFCM’ as shorthand to refer to these sales but we mean all the sales happening around this time of year)? These figures also show how the balance of retail spending has crept earlier too. Christmas planning cycles.

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