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“A big vote of confidence”: Why Walmart’s store upgrades are key

Inside Retail

The retailer also expanded its vision centres and pharmacies with private screening rooms, and placed digital touchpoints throughout the store to provide information of products and services. And it added new “dollar shops” for consumers to pick through seasonal, more affordably priced items. billion in 2017.

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For Singapore’s Capitaland, the mall comes roaring back

Inside Retail

E-commerce in Singapore had a couple of bumper years in 2020-21, but online sales growth plateaued in 2022 as a percentage of Singapore’s retail sales : for Capitaland’s malls, many of them part of integrated mixed-use projects, it was time to start taking full advantage of normalisation.

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Do retailers have enough cash in the post-Covid coffers to stay afloat?

Inside Retail

Many shopkeepers and larger retail chains are saying the market feels like we’re already in the throes of a recession , despite Australia’s official retail sales numbers for May showing a respectable 0.7 In the final quarter of 2022, New Zealand’s GDP was down 0.7 per cent increase on May last year.