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Coles has hired US defence contractor Palantir to “optimise its workforce”

Inside Retail

For Coles, the goal is to “optimise its workforce” by analysing “over 10 billion rows of data, comprising each store, team member, shift and allocation across all intervals in a day, every day”. The Artificial Intelligence Platform also brings ChatGPT-like language models into the mix. All of this probably seems banal, or even boring.

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10 Wonderful Christmas Window Displays in London and New York City 2019

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The design took a multi-specialist team more than 500 hours to produce with 100 people involved in the window-dressing across all stores, working non-stop rotated shifts for 10 days. Ken Potrock, president of Consumer Products, Disney). Inspired by the store’s 2019 fabric print ‘Jeweltopia.’ Bergdorf Goodman. ?

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Aldi launches Corner Store in convenience push

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The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips. Three of the 13 stores closed and Woolwoths is reviewing the remaining 10 sites. Local concept grows in the UK.

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Our Place founder Shiza Shahid on designing for a better kitchen and planet

Inside Retail

The brand’s co-founder and co-CEO, Shiza Shahid, founded Our Place in 2019 with her husband to create a cookware brand that was rooted in authenticity and representation. Instead of conforming, Our Place innovated, patterning a healthier non-stick coating called Thermakind. “It

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IN MY SHOES: This is what it’s like shopping as a veiled Muslim woman

Inside Retail

In fact, since my childhood, I loved to make clothes and accessories for dolls, and at 10, I designed and sewed clothes for a play that I directed for the children in my family. Supermodel Halima Aden on the runway at The Iconic’s summer show in 2019. This can make shopping less daunting and less time consuming.

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Battered luggage brands hope travel makes a big comeback

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In Singapore, sales at travel-specialised retailers like The Travel Store and Winter Time have already increased by 10-15 per cent following the recent announcement of quarantine-free travel lanes for vaccinated travellers returning from Australia, Switzerland, and a handful of neighboring Asian countries. “I

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Can Japan’s Aeon become a global juggernaut?

Inside Retail

As Japan’s Aeon Mall sets out to conquer the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers in Southeast Asia, it is finding that quality rather than quantity is where the emphasis has to be. Being the dominant mall operator in a territory isn’t necessarily a matter of operating the most malls—it’s a matter of operating the best ones.

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