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Opinion: Consumers’ screen times gives shopping centres a headache

Inside Retail

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. The Covid-19 disruption has closed some businesses while accelerating a contraction of store networks many chains had started before the pandemic forced trading restrictions and lockdowns.

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Analysis: Consumers and the new reality

Inside Retail

Globally, a different retail customer has emerged with new behaviours and decision-making criteria. In KPMG’s Responding to consumer trends in the new reality report, our research details findings from 75,000 consumer survey responses taken over four months, from May to September 2020, across 12 countries. Erosion of trust.

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How SafeSize uses AI to help retailers, consumers find the perfect fitting shoe

Inside Retail

Using its proprietary technology that matches a consumer’s 3D foot scan and personal preferences with the world’s largest database of 3D-scanned shoes, SafeSize offers highly accurate and personalised shoe recommendations for adults and children – a solution now embraced by more than 20 million consumers worldwide.

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Premier Retail to close four Sydney stores despite good performance

Inside Retail

Premier Retail says it achieved a modest increase in sales for the half year to January 29, despite losing 42,000 trading days to Covid-related lockdowns and movement restrictions. Due to the growing momentum in preference for online shopping, the company was focused on achieving the profitability of each individual store.

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

Inside Retail

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

Inside Retail

Since filing for bankruptcy last week, pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid has received interim approval to access up to US$3.45 The fall of the pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid isn’t the only pharmaceutical retailer in the US that is facing financial challenges.

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Why a major rent reset didn’t occur following the Covid-19 pandemic

Inside Retail

For a while, it was looking like a meaningful downward rent reset at shopping centres was a real possibility. Why this hasn’t occurred The trouble is that leases turn over on a gradual basis, somewhere between 10-20 per cent of leases in a shopping centre every year, depending on the country and what kind of shopping centre it is.