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Australia’s retail sales growth can’t last. Here’s how to prepare for it

Inside Retail

The latest retail sales figures are really quite incredible. According to the Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales rose by 0.6 per cent) and department stores (down 0.4 My tip is that retail sales figures in the next couple of months will start to reflect this. per cent bump.

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Retail expert on China’s department store dilemma and potential growth drivers

Inside Retail

The latest forecasts predict that China’s GDP and total retail sales of consumer goods will hit growth rates of 4.8 per cent) of surveyed department store operators expect their sales to grow in 2024, a significant decrease from last year’s 85.7 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Two thirds (66.3

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Harvey Nichols’ closure highlights shifting luxury landscape in Hong Kong

Inside Retail

Before the pandemic, the Chinese special administrative region had bucked global trends of declining demand for multi-brand department stores and ultra-luxury brands largely due to its attractiveness to high-spending mainland visitors. British luxury department store Harvey Nichols is at the forefront of the changes.

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Why short-term data alone won’t cut it for retailers in 2024

Inside Retail

But 10 years later, advertisers are falling back into old habits ditching long-term brand-building efforts to purely focus on activation campaigns that deliver sales in the short term. And that applies equally to retail sales data. It’s all too easy to get stuck dissecting the monthly ABS retail data.

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Can Singapore’s CapitaLand maintain its momentum as the economy slows?

Inside Retail

For some time now, the growth of e-commerce in the Lion City has been falling back in line with the growth rate of retail sales as a whole. 2023: the year of normalisation Retail sales per square foot (or per square metre according to your taste) for CapitaLand’s malls increased 10.2 per cent versus 4.1 million, up 14.4

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It’s not e-commerce anymore – it’s just commerce

Inside Retail

Australia Post’s 2022 e-commerce industry report told us that online retail sales represent around 20 per cent of total retail sales , with shopping habits being reformed during the pandemic. The retailer’s website is merely the start of a customer’s shopping journey today.

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How Amazon more than tripled its profits in Q1

Inside Retail

Amazon.com has posted its fourth straight quarter of record profits, thanks to the global shift to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. . billion on sales of US$108.5 billion on sales of US$108.5 The two-day online shopping event occurred in October last year due to uncertainty around the pandemic. “In