Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

McDonald’s reopens its first Australian store with a flashback to the 1970s. It was the Yagoona outlet in Sydney that brought the Golden Arches to these shores and on Friday 17 December, the memory of those days was revived with limited time retro pricing on the menu. Celebrating 50 years since the very first Macca’s opened its doors in December 1971, the new McDonald’s Yagoona reduced the Hamburger to its original 20 cents for two hours.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Australian chef Skye Gyngell has teamed up with her sister, designer Briony Fitzgerald, to create a deli version of her restaurant Spring, which is centred around a huge display of fruit and vegetables. Located in London's Notting Hill, Spring-To-Go is a shop where customers can buy seasonal produce and order restaurant-quality meals for home delivery.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

After 10 years of building its brand through retailers like David Jones and The Iconic, Australian women’s fashion label Nude Lucy is going direct-to-consumer with the launch of its own bricks-and-mortar stores and further investment in its online business. The first permanent Nude Lucy location opened at Pacific Fair shopping centre on the Gold Coast this month.

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Retail Store Windows

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The closer we get to Christmas, the harder it is to capture the windows here as the crowds become ever more frenzied with excitement. We did however manage to capture these windows through the crowds although hadnt realised at the time that the concept here was based on animals dreams and appear to have missed the various creatures asleep at the bottom of the windows.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

China’s Alibaba has told its investors that overseas e-commerce would be a key focus as it looks for new sources of growth after a difficult year at home. Earlier this month, Alibaba Group Holding restructured its e-commerce business into separate China and international divisions, with the latter to be led by Jiang Fan, head of Alibaba’s flagship Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

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Trade Group

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Take the Red Pill. Want to boost performance by up to 68% at Interphex 2022? The secret is not so secret: invest in booth design and staff training. We’ve designed booths for some of the most recognizable brands in the country. We’ve helped businesses develop quantifiable goals and measurable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for national and international events across multiple industries.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Beauty retailer Mecca is creating new opportunities to connect with Christmas shoppers by introducing gift card vending machines in high foot traffic areas of Australia’s major cities. The retailer’s ‘gifting’ panels, located at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Federation Square in Melbourne and in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall are positioned to serve consumers with a speedy and convenient shopping experience while they are out and about in the lead up to Christmas.

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Mindful Design

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Those who have ever glanced through the colorful Mindful Design Consulting portfolio can only imagine that, behind all the beautiful pictures and designs, there must be a creative force equally full of color. The assumption is correct. Katerina Kohlwes, the founder and designer of the successful San Diego design firm, is as cosmopolitan a figure […].

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

After 126 years since it launched in Austria, crystal giant Swarovski underwent a major global transformation this year, which saw the unveiling of 28 Instant Wonder stores in 28 stores around the globe, from Milan and Paris to New York and Sydney. Inside the Bondi flagship store in Sydney. The brand’s former signature royal blue colour palette and jewellery stands were replaced with a candy-like “dreamscape”, filled with walls of jewel-coloured boxes, holding a spectrum of accessories, jeweller

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

Electric vehicle manufacturer Polestar (Gothenburg, Sweden) has opened a new retail location in Corte Madera, CA where it will offer sales, service and test drives of its cars. The brand, which calls its physical locations Polestar Spaces, currently operates in 15 states. The company is aiming to grow its footprint to a total of 38 retail locations across the country by the end of 2022.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Alibaba Group will aim to achieve carbon neutrality in its own operations and slash emissions across its supply chains and transportation networks by the end of the decade, the Chinese e-commerce giant pledged on Friday. Alibaba promised to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 in its own direct emissions – known as “scope 1” – as well as its indirect “scope 2” emissions – derived from the consumption of electricity or heating.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Tint founder Djordje Dikic is on a mission to transform the way Australians buy paint by stripping it back to a simple and enjoyable online experience. We chat with the millennial CEO about why he named the paints in his business after hip-hop songs and how he turned his business into a lifestyle brand. Inside Retail: What does your ideal day look like?

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Resilience is overtaking productivity as the most important metric for measuring success in 2022. Gaps in resilience have left many industries exposed. Supply chains have focused too much on efficiency and optimisation, and haven’t been able to flex to changes in consumer behaviour, causing widespread delays. In essential sectors such as childcare, recent skills shortages make balancing compliance with the needs of employees increasingly difficult.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) recently released a first-of-its-kind roadmap to help businesses reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Six months in the making, the roadmap comes one month after the end of COP26, where the world’s nations discussed the drastic actions they need to take to prevent the worst impacts of climate change from occurring.

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