Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

As New South Wales-based retailers prepare to open their doors on Monday, some for the first time in months, the industry as a whole is both incredibly excited and equally apprehensive. “The rules have undergone changes, sometimes on a daily basis, that have caused confusion,” National Retailers Association boss Dominique Lamb told Inside Retail. “Lockdowns are disastrous for retail during any period, but with the sector about to move into the all-important Christmas season this reopening could

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Situ Live, an exciting and immersive consumer experience, which reimagines the traditional commercial retail model, is has opened the doors to the UK’s first discovery playhouse, at Westfield London. Situ Live offers a one-of-a-kind experience-led journey that combines product discovery, innovation, theatre, and demonstrations, with a smooth, hassle-free route to purchase.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has partnered with Epic Games and Fortnite to release a range of digital fashion looks with interchangeable accessories. The full Fortnite release includes apparel – the Fit Set – a pickaxe-like tool with a sneaker for the axe, a parasail purse glider, look wraps for weapons, free sprays unlocked via challenges and the ‘look’ emote.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nisa’s independent retailers are already being encouraged to plan for next Easter, with the group’s Spring range available for ordering from tomorrow (8th October). Chris Walker, offline marketing manager at Nisa, said: “After Christmas, Easter is the largest retailing opportunity and it’s not just Easter but the whole of Spring that has now become a.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Metcash chief executive Jeff Adams will retire early next year, and will be replaced by Doug Jones, current CEO and senior vice president of South African-based Massmart Wholesale. Adams had indicated to the Metcash board a desire to retire, which allowed the business to complete a global search for a successor. “On behalf of the board I would like to thank Jeff for his outstanding contribution to Metcash over the past four years,” said chairman Rob Murray.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nearly three quarters of the British have changed their shopping habits to cut their carbon footprint, suggests new research. Technology company Shopmium found in a survey that 74% of those in the UK have changed shopping habits to be greener and that almost everybody (97%) views climate change as an issue. Shopmium adds that “in. This story continues at Go green or lose business, says survey.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Premier Foods has added Toffee Apple pies to its Mr Kipling Halloween portfolio. The six-pack of pies retails at £1.50 and joins existing Fiendish Fancies (£1.50), Terrifying Toffee Whirls (£1), Chocolate & Marshmallow Slices (£1) and Spooky Chocolate & Vanilla Slices (£1.50). Mathew Bird, brand director for sweet treats at Premier Foods, said: “With Halloween.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Geezy Go, an online-only supermarket that launched in Sydney in August, is setting up shop in Melbourne on Wednesday and will soon hit New Zealand as part of its rapid expansion plan. “We’re launching in Melbourne, we’ve got the sites ready. As you know, there’s a lot of restrictions going on, so that delays things, but in [a] week’s time, we are launching,” Geezy Go vice president of growth and strategy, Dhruv Kohli, told Inside Retail.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bestway Retail is to launch a ‘store within a store’ concept that will see franchised Bargain Booze sections open within Best-one or Costcutter shops, with the external signage split equally between the two brands. Speaking at today’s Bargain Booze trade show, held in Liverpool, Bestway Retail director Mike Hollis told retailers: “We are launching a.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

At this point we all know Covid-19 has touched most parts of the retail industry – that’s a given. What is difficult to understand, however, is how things have changed. . And with the Australian retail industry set to return in full force in FY22, businesses need to ensure they are doing what is necessary to meet these new wants and needs from their customers.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

More than a third of consumers have or are considering buying food and drink for Christmas already, says a leading analyst. A survey by Lumina Intelligence also found that as well as those already stocking up, more than half of consumers (56%) are worried by the stockpiling and the fears of product shortages. This figure. This story continues at Worried customers already stocking up for Christmas.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

7-Eleven has restructured its organisation and introduced agile methodologies, creating cross-disciplinary groups empowered to make decisions. CEO and MD, Angus McKay, said the rethink of the way the convenience chain works is based on an ambitious goal of providing “one billion customer moments per year by 2030”. “That’s a fourfold increase on the approximately 250 million transactions delivered in the last financial year,” McKay said.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Snacking brand Strings & Things is bringing back its Halloween and Winter-themed packaging across its entire portfolio. The Halloween packaging is available now across its Cheeshapes, Cheestrings and Yollies packs and includes 18 new Cheeshapes designes, 16 Yollies motifs and 48 limited edition collectable Rare Scare Cheestrings characters. Rolling out from 2 November, the Winter-themed.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Pinterest will roll out new features for brands to promote products and ideas to users, the digital pinboard company said Wednesday, part of an effort to grow online shopping on its site. The features come as social media rivals including Facebook, TikTok and Snap Inc compete for the lucrative e-commerce market with in-app shopping or virtual clothing try-ons.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cereal Partners UK (CPUK), the maker of Nestlé breakfast cereals, is removing an estimated 59 million teaspoons of sugar and 3 million teaspoons of salt from its products, as it continues this year its staggered ‘salami slice’ reformulation approach to improve the nutritional profile of its cereals.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Twice-collapsed stationery retailer Kikki.K has been thrown a lifeline by Brandbank Group, which said on Friday it intends on picking the brand up from the company’s administrators. According to Brandbank Group, most head office, retail and online employees will retain their jobs, and approximately 30 stores will remain open. “We are delighted to have Kikki.K join our stable of world-class brands,” said Brandbank Group chief executive David Thomas.

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Design Wanted

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Raffaella Mangiarotti talks us through her illustrious design career building on the history and identities of Italian brands. A chair, a table, even the store interior for a refrigerator brand—Italian designer Raffaella Mangiarotti always finds a way to convey her unique sense of style. It might have something to do with the fact that she has designed practically everything in the twenty years she has been on the scene.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Metcash CEO to retire, successor announced. Metcash chief executive Jeff Adams will retire early next year, and will be replaced by Doug Jones, current CEO and senior vice president of South African-based Massmart Wholesale. Adams had indicated to the Metcash board a desire to retire, which allowed the business to complete a global search for a successor.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Asda has raised the bar for sustainable shopping after opening the largest refill store in the country at Monk’s Cross in York.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In April this year alone, the US witnessed about 649,000 dissatisfied retail workers rage-quitting their jobs. It’s a record number of resignations for the industry in over 20 years. Dubbed as The Great Resignation, it’s a trend driven by burnout and pressures of the pandemic. Workers are jumping ship to less stressful roles in insurance, banking and the public sector, where their customer service skills are rewarded with better pay and benefits.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Calvin Klein’s (New York) Global Chief Marketing Officer has resigned, reports WWD. A spokesperson for Calvin Klein confirmed Linh Peters would officially leave her position with the retailer by the end of the year. Having worked previously for brands like Ulta Beauty, Target, Best Buy and, most recently, Starbucks, Peters was charged to help develop Calvin Klein’s product marketing and brand experience.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Woolworths Group Ltd said on Friday it has provisionally settled a class action lawsuit filed against it by a Canberra law firm in 2019 for underpaying supermarket workers. The retailer said it would make an ex-gratia payment of A$2,500 plus retirement benefits to its about 20,000 current and former salaried team store members, who worked with the retailer for at least six months between January 2010 and September 2013.

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Design Week

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Esmée, by Space Copenhagen. Located in Kings Square Copenhagen, new restaurant Esmée aims to fuse classic French brasserie aesthetics with “modern interpretations” Space Copenhagen, the designers behind the restaurant, describes the space as “simultaneously elegant, fun, comfortable and unpretentious” To the left of the main entrance is the restaurant bar, which has been finished in a high-gloss, hand-painted deep plum colour.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nestle has reassured retailers that supplies should be safe this Christmas, despite acknowledging the widespread challenges facing deliveries. The company’s move follows a BBC report this morning that the maker of Quality Street and KitKat is seeing labour shortages and transportation issues. A Nestle spokesperson said: “Like all businesses we are managing a number of.

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VMS

OCTOBER 7, 2021

REI (Seattle) announced it plans to close its call centers, stores, headquarters, activity and distribution centers during Thanksgiving and Black Friday, for the seventh year in a row, according to a company press release. As part of the company’s #OptOutside initiative, the outdoor retailer plans to pay its 15,000-plus employees to spend the day outside Black Friday.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bargain Booze off-licence sections are set to open in about 70 of Iceland’s Food Warehouse outlets in time for Christmas 2021 under a new agreement signed this week. The two retailers have been trialling the concept since September last year, initially within three stores but more recently expanding to 12 Food Warehouse sites. Speaking at. This story continues at Bargain Booze to open in 70 Food Warehouse stores.

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Retail Times

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When direct-to-consumer premium chocolate brand Hotel Chocolat had to shut its stores during lockdown it lost one of its key abilities for gaining new customers – the sensory element of its 140 UK and international physical locations.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Wholesaler Parfetts has announced the completion of a major expansion of its Aintree depot. The work developed a dedicated loading area for deliveries, increasing capacity and, said the company, making the depot pleasanter for visitors Parfetts Aintreee has already seen deliveries increase by 40% in the last two years. It now delivers across the North.

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Retail Design Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Fintech company TWINO allows its staff to work from anywhere, but maintains that an office is vital for a social.

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Talking Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Wine prices are likely to rise because of a combination of falling yields, labour shortages and rising shipping costs, according to a wine lovers organisation. Wine Drinkers UK (WDUK), is a body made up of wine makers, sellers and drinkers, which traditionally campaigns for lower tax on wine. The organisation describes the combination of global. This story continues at The rising cost of drowning your sorrows.

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