Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Are you and your team ready for whatever this year has in store? Over the last couple of years, you’ve had to become flexible about where, how, and the way in which you work. In these times of constant change, there are some specific skills that you need, to be able to get the job done. No matter what your role, these are five skills that, according to the World Economic Forum, will help you and your business in 2022. 1.

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Design Week

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Tangerine has designed the official Winter Olympics train for this year’s event held in Beijing, China. The Winter Olympics train is a necessary, yet lesser seen, element of this year’s action. Designed by the London-based studio, the high-speed train has been specifically developed to help ferry sportspeople, media personnel and fans from Beijing to the ski centre in Zhangjiakou.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that after two years, Australia is finally re-opening its borders to fully vaccinated international tourists from February 21. According to Qantas boss Alan Joyce, Australia is “finally back open for business”. The lack of international tourists over the last two years has cost the retail industry an estimated $90 billion – given tourists spent around $45 billion between July 2018 and 2019, according to data from Tourism Research Austral

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Design Wanted

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The unique Leaf Table is just one of the luxury furniture brand’s nature-inspired designs made from the finest materials and shaped into an architectural form. Always different and never conformist, since 1991 VGnewtrend has been guided by luxury, which has seen its design and handcraft collections of authentic and unique furniture pieces. They are the result of continuous research on stylishly decorative design, which it conducts from its Treviso headquarters where the brand was founded in 1991

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Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Kathmandu Holdings has reported a strong first half despite disruptions from the Omicron outbreak, with the Kathmandu and Rip Curl brands growing, though footwear chain Oboz remains impacted. For the 26 weeks till January 30, the group saw total unaudited sales revenue hit $405 million, with gross margins improving in the second half. However, after almost 12,000 lost trading days, earnings are expected to range between $9 million and $11 million.

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E Delevry

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

UK retailers are set to witness an additional £19.6 billion of online home deliveries by 2025, according to new research from Metapack and Retail Economics. Online is expected to account for half (49.7%) of total non-food sales by 2025 and 27.3% of UK consumers expect to permanently shop online more. These shoppers and their changed behaviours are expected to support an additional £22.4 billion in online sales compared to a scenario where the pandemic had no impact on shopping behaviours.

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Retail Store Windows

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Everything has gone rather Yellow at this brand this week. We often visit this store along Bond street as they always produce some fantastic examples of Visual Merchandising. We've never know anyone who produces their schemes and it is probably no easy task, certainly for this store, to do something innovative and work with the open backed window spaces they have.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Inside Retail’s Top 50 People in E-Commerce is an annual ranking of the most inspiring leaders in Australia’s online retail industry. As we gear up for the launch of the 2022 report, we are revisiting some of the people featured in previous reports for a new series called Top 50 Talks. Here, they discuss their origin stories and passion projects. The e-commerce industry is full of founder-led businesses.

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E Delevry

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Pandora is to continue the rollout of click and collect this year after success in 2021. The company said that click and collect is seeing strong interest in the US and accounted for 11% of US online sales last year. The service has since been rolled out to additional markets, including France, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Canada and Australia and is now available in the majority of Pandora’s own concept stores in key markets.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The planned acquisition of Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) will not be opposed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) effectively clearing the way for the deal to proceed. API owns the Priceline retail business and its franchisor that distributes and operates independent Priceline pharmacies across the country. “API would form the basis of a new healthcare division of Wesfarmers and a base from which to invest and develop capabilities in the health and wellbeing

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Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

According to new research, half of UK adults (51%) still own and frequently wear an item of clothing that’s a decade old or more - even 17% of millennials and Gen-Z aged under 35. One in five adults (20%) still wear something that’s more than 20 years old.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Berejiklian steps into private role at Optus. Former New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian is joining Optus, taking up a position as the telco’s managing director of enterprise, business, and institutional. “I am excited and proud to join an organisation that impacts the lives of millions of Australians every day and prides itself on providing outstanding customer service,” Berejiklian said.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Comau and IUVO are developing an innovative wearable robotics solution to improve the ergonomics of operators engaged in manually moving loads at Esselunga, a leading large-scale retail trade company. The aim is to improve well-being by reducing lower back fatigue. The action of the exoskeleton will assist the back muscles that are typically stimulated during lifting and handling tasks, thus creating short- and long-term benefits through a significant reduction in physical effort and fatigue.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Retailer Baby Bunting Group has reported strong revenue growth in the first half on the back of market-share gains. The baby goods chain recorded sales of $239.1 million, up 10 per cent, with same-store sales up 6.8 per cent. Net profit after tax was $8.1 million, up by 12.2 per cent. Online sales rose by 32.6 per cent to $56.8 million. Click and Collect sales surged 46.4 per cent and accounted for 59 per cent of online sales in areas where the company has a physical store.

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Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

An incredible 42% of online retailers are failing to measure checkout conversation, their most important metric for completing online sales according to a new study from data validation specialist, Fetchify. This is despite the huge issue of lost sales throughout online retailing with the average basket abandonment rate across all eCommerce standing at 68.8%.

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Retail Design Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

We focused on getting to know both the Zagreb and Turkish ways of creating and nurturing business relationships, resulting in.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Peperami – the UK’s leading snacking brand – has unveiled a brand-new campaign to promote Chicken Bites, one of the brand’s latest products.

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Retail Design Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Cantine Emilia, a new Portuguese rotisserie, is located in Le Central Food Court in the heart of downtown Montreal. The.

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Understanding the intricate world of Point-of-Sale (POS) technology is a common challenge for tech buyers. When it comes to defining the functions of Point-of-Sale systems, the communications have yet to be standardized–—until now. Forrester’s new report, Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions, breaks through the noise and provides business leaders with the information and tools they need to evaluate the features of POS systems.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The UK wholesale and retail sector faces one of the hardest journeys to decarbonisation, according to a new report.

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Retail Design Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Rotterdam raised Woei Tjin opened his first store in 2007. The like-named store quickly made a name for itself as.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As we wave goodbye to the December festivities, and January Blues settle in, as a nation we look to the next occasion that gives us cause to celebrate. Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to plan a romantic evening and have something to look forward to again! Studies show that a whopping 40 million of Brits celebrated Valentine’s Day in 2021 (76%).

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

No matter what kind of retail business you operate, the digital experience you can offer customers matters more than ever. This is especially true in the UK, where shoppers spend more online than in any other country apart from the US. An increasing amount of all shopping is done digitally, and the vast majority of all retail will be conducted online by the end of the decade.

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Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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