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How Dubai sportswear giant GMG aims to crack the Southeast Asia market

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GMG is a Dubai-based company with distribution rights for more than 120 global brands in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and a portfolio of multi-brand retail chains across sports, food and beauty. This move also enhances the company’s ability to serve Southeast Asian consumers.

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What Rite Aid’s collapse reveals about the challenges of pharmacy retail

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Since filing for bankruptcy last week, pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid has received interim approval to access up to US$3.45 The retailer currently operates 2,100 retail pharmacy locations across 17 states, but will be closing underperforming stores part of the restructuring process.

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Grill’d CEO Simon Crowe on how drive-thru will inform its future growth

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Meanwhile, in Australia, retail chains including 7/11, Ferguson Plarre Bakehouse , and BWS have recently explored the drive-thru concept. Unlike fashion, he believes Grill’d is immune to the consumer spending downturn. per cent to 2030. These include leveraging its real estate, while also generating an additional income stream.

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Why it’s good to be a mall operator in the Philippines right now

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SM Prime is not just a developer and operator of garden-variety malls: it develops whole ‘lifestyle cities’ with residential, office, hotel, convention and entertainment uses integrated with enclosed malls, markets and retail high streets. The economy is in good shape and consumers are dipping into their pockets. billion) in 2023.

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What retailers can learn from Starbucks’ accessible store design

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This year, Starbucks plans to open over 600 new store locations, including licensed locations, to increase its US footprint by 4 per cent. In November last year, big-box chain store Walmart implemented sensory-friendly hours at all stores in the US and Puerto Rico.

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“A big opportunity”: Amazon betting big on palm-only payment tech

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Amazon and Panera, the US bakery-cafe chain, have teamed up to help customers pay for orders and access rewards with just the palm of their hands. That’s over 66 million Americans dining in or taking away at more than 2,100 locations across the country. In June last year, the company said that more than 69 locations in the U.S.

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Analysis: The driving force behind Hong Kong’s retail revolution

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Retailers and consumers have been urged — or forced — to take their transactions into the digital marketplace. Statista, 2021) According to a digital retail survey conducted by KPMG and YouGov in 2019, 77 per cent of mainland respondents described themselves as “tech savvy.” New consumers. New brands . New operations.

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