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Inside Designworks’ four-pronged expansion strategy

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per cent, year-on-year retail sales growth in August 2022. Sales across Brand Collective are good, and the areas where we’ve seen a slower start to the season have been weather-dependent businesses, like children’s shoes, where you’d expect would normally have a huge sandal period,” she said.

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Vicinity Centres posts highest occupancy rate since 2019

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per cent as of June 30 last year and 98 per cent at the peak of the pandemic (December 2020). During the six months, Vicinity entered into contracts for asset sales to fully fund the acquisition of the remaining 49 per cent of Chatswood Chase Sydney shopping mall. “1H Total portfolio retail sales grew 1.5

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The new Tiktok challenge waging war on the major supermarkets’ pricing

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Etri emphasised that Skippy’s intention and business strategy is to move volume, so it passes on savings from suppliers and doesn’t use large markups to drive profit. Coles fell two spots to number five, which allowed German supermarket giant Aldi to take third place as Woolworths was dethroned from the number one spot it had held since 2020.

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Top 10 Strategies for Increasing Convenience Store Sales & Foot Traffic

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1,2 The challenge for convenience store owners, therefore, is implementing a business plan with strategies that increase retail sales, foot traffic, and profit margins. 7 Explore Omnichannel Shopping Omnichannel marketing means customers want the same retail sales experience, in-store or on their computer, tablet, or smartphone.

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What retail investors should expect in 2023

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Unsurprisingly, retail sales are predicted to struggle this year, with discretionary and leisure items being more negatively impacted than others. Non-food retail was significantly down in 2022 when compared with 2019 figures. The significant inflation rate increases are already impacting living standards across Britain.

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Tips from a travel retail expert on tapping into passenger demand

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To say that the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the retail industry would be an understatement. However, with international borders open again, and everyone seemingly heading to Europe in recent months, the travel retail market is booming. In 2019, the global travel retail market was valued at US$74.31 billion in 2020.

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Three practical solutions to drive brilliant customer engagement

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The number of touchpoints to reach them and the amount of data being generated, continues to skyrocket, which can sometimes make for a very disjointed customer engagement strategy. . This allows businesses to evaluate and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies to grow their brand. Take Ticketek , for example.