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Buy now pay later: What’s retailers’ responsibility?

Inside Retail

million in the 2017-18 financial year to $32 million in 2018-19 representing an increase of 90 per cent. ASIC’s consumer research indicates 21 per cent of BNPL users missed a payment in the past 12 months. Compared to January 2020, spending on BNPL has increased by 106 per cent. The number of BNPL transactions leapt from $16.8

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Beyond quiet hours: How global retailers cater to atypical customers

Inside Retail

In 2017, Coles initiated its quiet hour in response to a customer’s suggestion for a more accessible, low-sensory shopping experience. The program is due to launch in other shopping precincts in the coming 12 months. There are many forms of self-regulation, and we all do it. Here are some examples.

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Creating a Contactless Retail Experience in 2022

Parcel Pending

Each successive variant is reinforcing retail shopping habits and preferences formed at the beginning of the pandemic. Whereas in- store shopping in early to mid-2020 was all about not touching anything or social distancing, the new goal for retailers who are determining how to improve in-store experience is to limit human interaction.

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Retailing in India: Rise and Shine Through

VMS

Its market size, $75 billion USD as of 2017, was expected to reach $100 billion USD by 2025, growing with a compounded annual growth rate of 5.6 metric tons in 2020 from 690.4 The company added more than 50 new stores in the year 2020 across all its jewelry businesses. The sector has more than 300,000 players employing over 4.64

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An in-depth look into Aussie luxury brand Oroton’s major turnaround

Inside Retail

In 2017, iconic Australian brand Oroton fell into voluntary administration. It’s been two and a half years since voluntary administration (VA) and we’ve had 12 months of Covid-19. If you look at our trade, when we closed our stores in March 2020, we were concerned about when they’d ever reopen and what would happen.

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The Metaverse Will Radically Change Retail

Retail Prophet

Put as simply as possible, the Metaverse is the collective, persistent, parallel reality created by the stitching together of all virtual worlds to form a universe that we can seamlessly traverse. But please ask that question again in 12 months.” But please ask that question again in 12 months.” The key word here is “persistent.”

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The Metaverse Will Radically Change Retail

Retail Prophet

Put as simply as possible, the Metaverse is the collective, persistent, parallel reality created by the stitching together of all virtual worlds to form a universe that we can seamlessly traverse. But please ask that question again in 12 months.” But please ask that question again in 12 months.” The key word here is “persistent.”