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Revolutionizing FMCG with AI-Powered Image Recognition: Enhancing Shelf Management and Consumer Insights

Retail Focus

The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is no stranger to challenges. AI image recognition FMCG is a technology that transforms how brands manage shelves, track inventory, and understand their consumer behavior. Poorly managed shelves lead to lost sales, frustrated customers, and damaged brand reputations.

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Fashion insiders weigh in on the uncertain future of Australian Fashion Week

Inside Retail

Under IMG’s leadership since 2005, AFW has elevated resort collections, showcased Indigenous designers and initiated a consumer-integrated model. The emergence of consumer-facing fashion events including PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival and Melbourne Fashion Week has led some to question the relevance of a closed industry-only event.

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How Bonds’ new campaign tackles the semantics of menstruation

Inside Retail

The simple truth is we still have a long way to go in breaking down period stigmas – and it’s about bloody time we stopped tiptoeing around them,” Bonds’ senior brand manager Edwina Mollder told Inside Retail. “It’s scary to think that even today, saying the word period can send many into a nervous sweat.

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From product to practices: how fashion “sustainability” is finding its natural place in brand management practices.

Retail Focus

Having been washed down on consumer practices, they have become more demanding in understanding anything that goes beyond the simple term “sustainable” Customers paid more attention to the brand’s rhetoric and all the claims they made about their sustainable offer, and how it impacted them and the planet. If so, what?

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Decoding a Neologism: LUXENTAINMENT

Retail Focus

Ghalia Boustani- Ephemeral Retailing Specialist | Published Author | Podcast Host In the ever-evolving lexicon of retail and brand culture, LUXENTAINMENT emerges as a telling synthesis—a fusion of luxury and entertainment. This fusion matters now, more than ever, because the luxury consumer has changed.

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Canada Goose to launch into Australia

Inside Retail

Canada Goose is set to make a foray into Australia under a brand management agreement reached with Brand Collective. The brand will roll out retail stores this year in Melbourne and Sydney, and open an e-commerce platform, to be augmented by selected wholesale distribution.

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Opinion: Do consumers really shop in the name of love?

Inside Retail

As retail competition escalates on a global scale and across multiple channels, many brands and thought leaders have gravitated to the idea of ‘brand love’ as a way of differentiating. The hope is that getting consumers to love your brand will make them more loyal, purchase more frequently, and so on.

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