Retail Focus

JANUARY 31, 2022

Surface Design Show 2022 presents an exciting combination of education, engagement and entertainment at one of the first industry events to fully return to a face-to-face format this year. Held from 8-10 February, the event will take place once again at London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. . The Main Stage will host a total of 18 different talks staged across the 2 1/2 days, featuring some 50 speakers, inspiring and educating a professional audience of over 1,000 architects and designe

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Retail turnover fell 4.4 per cent in December last year according to the Retail Trade figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today. Despite the fall, spending on retail goods remains heightened compared to December 2020 for all retail industries except for department stores which is down by 9.0 per cent. Likewise, food retailing such as supermarkets, liquor stores rose 2.2 per cent this month.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 31, 2022

Storeage , the Shanghai-based Dutch retail design agency, worked closely with the team from B+Tube cosmetics to create their first flagship store. With its striking iridescent archways, the store aims to connect to teenagers looking for a more expressive and colourful approach to cosmetics. And in line with the teens shopping behaviour, the store introduces ample room to interact with social media to facilitate online to offline shopping. .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Bunnings’ parent Wesfarmers is considering temporarily relocating head office staff to Melbourne, citing a growing frustration with Western Australia’s hard border policy. The company described it as “virtually impossible” to do business in the state. . Western Australia’s Premier Mark McGowan has scrapped the planned reopening of the state on February 5 due to the rise of Omicron cases in the country.

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Design Week

JANUARY 31, 2022

This month, BuildHollywood unveiled its latest collaboration for Your Place or Mine – a project which gives artists and designers a space on the UK’s streets through billboards and other ad spaces. This time around it features designer, printmaker and artist Anthony Burrill. Every Idea is a Useful Idea is a piece in Burrill’s well-known and well-loved no-nonsense typographic style.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Greenlit Brands and Fantastic Furniture have overcome “the ongoing headwinds of Covid-19” to deliver strong growth last year, according to CEO Michael Ford. “The progress we made against our strategic priorities, and the strength of our balance sheet gives us much confidence as we continue to invest and grow our businesses,” he said, releasing the results of the two businesses of Steinhoff International’s Asia Pacific operations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

In recent years, consumer awareness around sustainability has continued to grow, as shoppers are now demanding to know the origin of the products that they purchase. As a result, savvy retailers like Woolworths and Walmart have begun adopting new technologies such as 2D barcodes to offer more transparency. Unlike the traditional linear black-and-white barcodes often seen on items, 2D barcodes give brands the opportunity to encode more detailed product information than before.

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Retail Works Inc

JANUARY 31, 2022

Visual Merchandising comes in all shapes and sizes. No matter how small, or temporary, a well displayed collection of merchandise is imperative to capturing the customer’s attention and motivating him/her to purchase. Recently, Retailworks has been working with Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, WI, to assist the temporary Pop-Up tenants set up their wares over 3-day weekends.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Italian luxury group Dolce & Gabbana will stop using fur in all its collections from this year, the fashion brand said on Monday in a joint statement with animal rights association Humane Society International. “The entire fashion system has a significant social responsibility role that must be promoted and encouraged,” said the group’s communication and marketing officer, Fedele Usai.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Online luxury retailer Farfetch (London) will purchase beauty retailer Violet Grey, according to Reuters. The move expands Farfetch’s reach into the cosmetics business. “We’ve been thinking about beauty for a long time,” Stephanie Phair, chief customer officer of Farfetch, told Reuters. Farfetch plans to introduce beauty products on its online marketplace this year.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Last month, global supermarket brand Aldi opened its first checkout-free supermarket to the public, following an in-house trial, allowing customers in Greenwich, London, to walk in, pick up their groceries, and walk out without going to a till. Through the Aldi Shop&Go app, shops track customers with a number of high-tech cameras as they make their way through the store; they are automatically charged once they leave – mirroring the model set out by Amazon’s first Go store, launched in 2016,

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Compliantia

JANUARY 31, 2022

Creating a strong, recognizable brand takes a ton of work. You need to ideate, craft the right messaging, and ensure that it resonates with your target market. Equally important is maintaining brand consistency, especially if you’re running multiple stores. To build trust and loyalty, you must provide the same brand experience across all customer touchpoints.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Over the past six months, collab culture has taken a sharp turn. Balmain has teamed up with Barbie, Balenciaga launched its Spring collection with The Simpsons, while art collective Brain Dead dropped an entire line of streetwear devoted to fantasy tabletop role-play game Dungeons and Dragons. The cult of ‘cool’ has shifted further and further towards the fringe, with fashion brands seemingly trying to out-nerd one another.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Kellogg’s is introducing a hazelnut variant of its Coco Pops breakfast cereal. Hazelnut-choc flavour Coco Pops is being launched in Asda and Iceland this week before being made available more widely. The special flavour is a limited edition that Kellogg’s says will only be available for a year and follows a limited edition strawberry and. This story continues at Coco Pops launches another limited edition.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Former CEO and MD of The Reject Shop, Ross Sudano, has been appointed as the new CEO of Tahbilk Group, the first person outside the family to hold the role. Sudano will succeed incumbent, fourth-generation Alister Purbrick, who will retire this June. “After 43 years running my family businesses, Tahbilk and the Tahbilk Group, it’s time for me to pass the baton on,” said Purbrick.

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VMS

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Home Depot (Atlanta) has named Edward “Ted” Decker CEO and president effective March 1, according to a press release. Decker has also been elected to the company’s board of directors, and current Chairman and CEO Craig Menear will continue to serve as Chair of the board. “As a 22-year associate of The Home Depot, Ted has nurtured our culture by living our values and demonstrating servant leadership throughout his career,” said Menear. “His ability to blend the art and scien

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

After years of ricocheting between in-store and digital CX tactics, savvy retailers are reconsidering how to best serve their customers. Whether shopping behaviour is driven by preference or circumstance, a new approach to the retail customer experience is essential to deliver on brand promise – and keep customers returning to your business. External forces keep retailers guessing.

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VMS

JANUARY 31, 2022

Despite current pressures on the labor market, Adidas is planning to hire 2800 new employees this year, reports Footwear News. The positions are spread across 307 locations in 47 countries with more than 800 based in Germany and 900-plus at the brand’s retail stores. “We want to set standards as an employer. Adidas is an employer like no other, and we go above and beyond every day to create an attractive working environment for our employees,” said Amanda Rajkumar, Executive Board Member, Global

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Elmwood Timber

JANUARY 31, 2022

Hardwood flooring is one of the most popular materials for homes and businesses. Filled with character and interest, a hardwood floor is the ideal flooring type to bring warmth and natural wood into a home of business. Solid wood floors also have more durability than some other flooring types, such as laminate or engineered wood flooring. Wood types like hickory and oak are known for their durability , and white oak is even somewhat water-resistant.

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Design Week

JANUARY 31, 2022

London design studio Onwards has crafted the “off-beat” branding for adult-orientated cereal brand, Surreal. Surreal is a new range of cereal, geared towards a more mature audience; the four flavours are sugar-free, gluten-free and vegan. “Most importantly, it tastes like the indulgent cereal we all still secretly love,” says Onwards founder Joe Ryrie.

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Retail Store Windows

JANUARY 31, 2022

Thankfully new schemes are emerging and as we would expect at this time of year, some good old fashioned references to the big diary date, Valentines. Not all retailers embrace this event each year although as always references to heart motifs remain popular. This brand in particular have produced some notable installations and this one looks particularly great.

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VMS

JANUARY 31, 2022

(PRESS RELEASE) ATLANTA, GA – Nanolumens, world-class creators of creative LED displays, has partnered with Megapixel VR, innovators in LED technology, to offer its customers greater reliability and quality when selecting their displays. This partnership brings a secure and complete product offering with top-tier video performance and easier control for large and/or multiple displays.

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Retail Insider

JANUARY 31, 2022

Brought to you by Retail Insider and Flooid. The Name: Gousto. The Place: Shepherd’s Bush. Really? Well that’s the HQ. But its services are of course available throughout the British Isles – it’s online. The Story: It seems reading through earlier interviews that at first co-founder Timo Boldt thought about opening a shop a decade or so ago to sell his made-to-measure recipe boxes but putting his ex-Goldman Sachs financial nous to good use he decided that online and convenience were the trends t

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Spar wholesaler James Hall & Co is celebrating after its stores passed the £500,000 milestone of money raised for cancer charity Marie Curie. To mark the achievement, the highest fundraising stores from each part of the north of England have been recognised. The highest fundraising independent store is Nigel and Sue Masters’ Spar store in. This story continues at Spars supplied by James Hall give more than £500,000 to cancer charity.

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Retail Times

JANUARY 31, 2022

There are many dates, events and festivals on the UK retail calendar that e-commerce and online marketplace sellers plan for. Whilst some of these are well known, many others are often overlooked.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Post Office has locked horns with Citizens Advice over a report highlighting the closure of 200 post offices in the past two years. The Citizens Advice report, which said 1,291 post offices were temporarily closed in September 2021, nearly twice as many as in 2017, alleged that post office closures meant that there were. This story continues at Post Office defends network after Citizens Advice alleges service is stretched to breaking point.

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Retail Times

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sainsbury’s welcomed customers to two new stores in local communities today with the opening of Berrylands Raeburn Avenue Local in southwest London and Allerton Road Local in Liverpool. Now open from 7am to 11pm seven days a week, colleagues in both stores celebrated with ribbon cutting ceremonies to mark the occasion. In Raeburn Avenue, Tariq Shabbeer from local charity Save The World Club joined Grande Avenue Primary School pupils and PTA Chair Lucy Richards to show their support.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Musgrave, the Irish convenience group, is to install electronic shelf labels (ESLs) made by technology specialist Pricer in its SuperValu and Centra stores in Northern Ireland. Its aim is to improve efficiency and the customer experience, enabling the group to centralise pricing and promotions, and to update them in real-time. Michael Devlin, head of IT.

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Retail Times

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Midcounties Co-operative, one of the UK’s largest independent co-operatives, has appointed Kathryn Lyddon as its Head of Property as it embarks on a significant investment programme for 2022.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Post Office has agreed to continue to carry out everyday banking after sealing a deal with 30 banks, building societies and credit unions. The latest agreement will extend the Post Office banking arrangements until the end of 2025. It means post offices will continue to handle bank account cash deposits and withdrawals, providing a. This story continues at Post Office agrees to continue handling cash for bank customers.

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