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How Country Road dials up personalisation with free digital gifting service

Inside Retail

Iconic Australian retailer Country Road has taken an innovative tech-led approach to maximising gift sales. Gift Flick is an e-commerce plug-in that enables consumers to virtually send any product or gift voucher in an e-tailer’s store. An end to order deadlines for online gift shopping.

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How retail can break free from the event calendar, but not before Mother’s Day

Inside Retail

Stores are syncing product releases and advertising campaigns to calendar events, meanwhile, consumers are planning their purchases to the retail calendar. Inside Retail spoke to Dr Jason Pallant, RMIT senior marketing lecturer, to unpack how retail became reliant on event-based sales and strategies to regain year-long stability.

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Motherhood isn’t glossy perfection, so stop marketing like it is

Inside Retail

Mother’s Day holds a solid place in the hearts of Aussie consumers. While the realities of motherhood are much more widely shared today online and on social media, the representation of mothers in advertising has largely gone unchanged since the 1950s.

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Is Jim’s Beauty set to flop like Harley-Davidson perfume – or could it be branding genius?

Inside Retail

This has allowed them to undercut other brands and get more margin – a strategy that is paying off as consumers become more stretched, allowing Coles to increase home brand sales 9.4 Away from their physical stores, they are offering telehealth , insurance , mobile phone plans , gift cards , and deliveries at work.

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First impressions count: why cardboard packaging has a big future in retail

Inside Retail

Usually – and especially for consumers shopping online – the first physical impression someone has of your brand is when they see it in its packaging. “So So it’s vital to make that experience count,” explains Alexandria Jurcic, national marketing manager, at Australian corrugated cardboard and packaging specialist Abbe. “It

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FTC Holds Online Fashion Brand Accountable for Suppressing Negative Reviews, Issues Updated Guidance for Marketers, and Warns Review Platforms

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million for harm suffered by consumers. million to settle charges that it failed to properly notify consumers of late shipments and give them the chance to cancel their orders, and that it illegally used gift cards to compensate consumers for unshipped merchandise instead of providing refunds.

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Bunnings axes the catalogue, but has it made a huge mistake?

Inside Retail

Bunnings has printed its last-ever catalogue after the hardware titan axed the glossy bright paper in favour of an entirely digital marketing mix, as the last vestiges from the print era continue to crumble in an increasingly pixelated consumer market. Notably, several don’t even have a brick-and-mortar shopfront, Zhang says. “As