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Australian Retail Outlook 2023: Paradigm shifts and fresh perspectives

Inside Retail

More importantly, however, “The whole concept of just-in-time sourcing that Australia has relied so heavily upon has crumbled,” Bowden remarked. On balance, it appears that most retailers are comfortable with their own approach to ESG, with just one in seven (15 per cent) nominating it as a top priority for 2023.

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How collaboration can amplify impact and streamline your retail journey

Inside Retail

HoMie is about 70 per cent self-funded, with the balance coming from private donations. Both are concepts used for rapid innovation that originated within Google when a team was given 10 days to develop an email solution. “We We don’t have 10 days, we had eight hours.”

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Builders: Enablers of collaboration

Inside Retail

Architects and designers are tasked with bringing uniformity and connection to new concepts within precincts. Builders need to do more than just build, they need to balance each stakeholder’s needs because ultimately, they are responsible for handing over a project that satisfies everyone.

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Coffee and home delivery: How food-service spending is changing in Apac

Inside Retail

We can expect more unique dine-in concepts trialled by food services in the coming years, either through loyalty systems to encourage repeat patronage, or to lengthen customers’ time spent in store,” she explained.

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How teen Sofia Sacoor started an athleisure brand to support kids with diabetes

Inside Retail

The concept behind the brand’s charitable initiative is straightforward. From a practical perspective, she said that she is lucky to have people around her who advise and guide her on how to succeed with the business since she is still attending school in the UAE.

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Proximity retailing and current retail environmental paradoxes

Retail Focus

Urban proximity concepts are becoming more relevant, and rural proximity concepts are retreating to less relevant formats. Given this situation, startups have been invited to invest in their local communities to revive the street with local concepts. The retail environment concept, theme and offer display.

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How Jidu’s Roboverse experience centre is disrupting the auto industry

Inside Retail

In the future, the Roboverse concept will be expanded to other cities nationwide,” he explained. According to Gang, from an industry and market perspective, the trend to incorporate retail into digitisation and metaverse is an unstoppable trend. “The The greatest value lies in revitalising retailing with digital interaction.

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