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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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Sneakerboy enters administration with creditors to meet this month

Inside Retail

Luxury footwear and fashion retailer Sneakerboy faces a new test after administrators were appointed to oversee the embattled retail chain. In April, AMP Pacific Fair, operators of the Gold Coast Pacific Fair shopping centre, filed a winding up order in the Queensland Supreme Court.

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As western retail brands exit, Russia looks east for replacements

Inside Retail

Russia is looking to China, India, Iran and Turkey to plug the gap created by an exodus of western retail companies, an industry body said on Friday, as Moscow grapples to find ways to combat its growing isolation in the face of sanctions. 24 in what it calls a special operation.

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Why a standalone Woolworths drive-through is a “no brainer”

Inside Retail

This model is in response to a sustained increase in online shopping that is seen within the existing supermarket network, while also providing a reduced Covid-19 risk for customers,” a Woolworths spokesperson said. Who doesn’t want to get in, pick up their shopping and get out? “I Good on Woolies for finding a site to trial this.

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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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JYSK to open two new stores in Greater Manchester

Retail Focus

Despite a challenging year for the retail market, with forced store closures during lockdown periods, over 860,000 customers (a 55% YoY increase) in the UK & Ireland chose to shop at the Scandinavian retail chain to improve everyday life in their homes, confirming a UK-wide trend that has seen homewares sales soar.

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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.