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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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Making Your Store A Welcoming Space

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You have to be careful, however, about hitting shoppers or clients with a hard sell or your best products right when they enter, because it takes time for them to transition into a new space. How can you make this happen in your space? You can also call it your reception area, your lobby, or simply a welcoming zone. What to Display.

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What retailers can learn from Starbucks’ accessible store design

Inside Retail

This month, the American coffee chain Starbucks opened the first store to be built using its Inclusive Spaces Framework at Union Market in Washington, DC. The framework aims to bring more inclusive innovation in physical and digital spaces while enabling Starbucks to scale accessible design across its store portfolio.

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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. These are the primary causes of its bankruptcy.”

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

Inside Retail

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.

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

Inside Retail

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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Why Book Depository’s closure could be a “net benefit” for Australian booksellers

Inside Retail

Following the closure of Book Depository, Egan believes that the time is right for Australian bookstores to develop curated spaces and experiences, as a means of competing with online booksellers. Rather, they use the space “for inspiration, for calm, as places of discovery.” “I So it’s unlikely to have an effect.”

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