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

Inside Retail

During her time at Lululemon, which spanned 13 years from 2012 to 2020, Shaughnessy led over 40 stores and oversaw the brand’s national wholesale and community presence in ANZ. As an omnichannel retailer, making it easier to shop the brand is the main priority, Shaughnessy told Inside Retail. “A

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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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Selfridges launch 2021 Christmas shop

Retail Focus

With 12 weeks to go to Christmas, Selfridges London opens its Christmas Shop helping customers to plan and prepare for festive moments to dream of. opens its Christmas Shop?helping?customers?to to plan and prepare for festive moments with decorations to dream of, echoing the store’s theme for 2021: A Christmas of Dream.

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Woolworths unveils plans for 22,000 sqm online hub in Sydney

Inside Retail

The development application is subject to approval from the NSW Department of Planning, and will support 440 jobs during its construction phase and a further 250 once operational. We’ve seen an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year,” said Bardwell. “As

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What StockX’s new shopping app for Apple Vision Pro says about AR in retail

Inside Retail

On Monday, the US-based resale platform StockX launched a shopping app for Apple Vision Pro , a spatial computer that blends digital content and apps with the real world and lets users navigate this blended reality using their eyes, hands, and voice. In 2020, 83.1 million people in the US used AR every month, a marked jump from 68.7

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‘Go anywhere, get anything’: Uber reveals plans for marketplace

Inside Retail

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. last minute shopping needs, and complement our existing e-commerce offer,” Woolworths Metro general manager Justin Nolan said in a statement. Changing shopping habits. The post ‘Go anywhere, get anything’: Uber reveals plans for marketplace appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Adelaide plans $250m retail hub on city fringe

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A $250 million development plan is set to transform a 3.6ha Adelaide plot into a modern food and retail-oriented mixed-use centre featuring apartments and a piazza-style market square. The land was then sold to German hypermarket Kaufland which planned to build a flagship store there before cancelling plans to launch in Australia in 2020.

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