Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Sovereign Centros has announced that local homeware and gifts retailer, Fig & Fox, has opened at Festival Place , one of the UK’s top 25 retail and leisure destinations. The Festival Place location also features a takeaway counter serving barista-crafted hot drinks from local coffee roasters, Moonroast Coffee.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Local governments, planners, place makers, economic development managers, trade associations and retailers work hard to design, improve and revitalise main streets. Our research is the only-known Australian study to ask shoppers about the key elements, and shops and services, they regard as contributing to the ideal main street.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Managing director Simon Schofield discusses the new bricks-and-mortar experience and the brand’s revitalised product range. Customers have missed the experience of shopping in-store, and we’ve seen strong support across our suburban stores, with improvement in CBD locations in recent months.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Woolworths Group has pulled the plug on plans to open a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin after an independent panel ruled that the development should not go ahead. While food customers are still shopping less frequently, the growth in the number of items customers put in their baskets is slowing. Big W reported total sales growth of 18.3

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bright Data , the global industry leader in making public web data accessible to all, has today released new research that reveals consumer sentiments around the 2021 holiday shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Overall, a slim majority of respondents (56%) in both the US and UK plan to participate in these discount days.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 31, 2022

For many Australian retailers, the start of November marks the beginning of peak season and all that comes with it: packed stores, products flying off the shelf, big discounts and major online shopping events. We have been planning our peak season since early this year, so I think we’re well-placed to achieve great results.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Covering the pre and post-Christmas shopping periods, that figure would represent a 3.9 Quoting the organisation’s Consumer Sentiment Report, interim NRA CEO Lindsay Carroll said buyers are preparing for the holiday shopping season by modifying their spending habits in order to afford Christmas events and gifts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Heading into November are we meant to be planning for Christmas, or making the most of these big sales events (we’ll use ‘BFCM’ as shorthand to refer to these sales but we mean all the sales happening around this time of year)? Christmas planning cycles. There are also meaningful supply chain and distribution challenges to overcome.

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Parcel Pending

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a property manager , you undoubtedly recognize that turning over a unit has a significant price tag – from cleaning to marketing to maintenance costs (especially in current market conditions ). To retain residents, here are 14 key property management incentive ideas to keep your residents in place. 6 Give the Gift of Clean.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 1, 2023

They care about value, and are choosing treats and gifts that are handmade [and] natural, made in Melbourne and [that] celebrate local ingredients,” he said. Georges also said that roughly half of the brand’s sales come from gifting, which has been resilient to customer cutbacks. “At

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

The challenge by the client is always the same,” says Alec Zaballero, Managing Executive at TPG. Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. It’s the neighborhood strategy or city planning strategy.”.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Television presenter Pamela Ballantine officially opened the doors this morning joined by Deputy Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council Councillor Rosie Kinnear; Dobbies CEO, David Robinson; Dobbies Antrim General Manager Ken Ferguson and Operations Manager Jenny Campbell; and The Junction landlord, Lotus Property’s MD Alastair Coulson.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2022

Here, Australia and New Zealand general manager Preet Bains discusses the brand’s omnichannel strategy, the sensory appeal of its unique stores and the key to maintaining the relevance of a legacy brand. . IRW: What are your plans for Aesop in the APAC region in 2022?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2022

Impressively, Amazon has managed to hold onto the accelerated gains it made in the last two years when consumers were in lockdown, and the research finds that e-commerce shoppers have no plans to slow their spending on the marketplace in 2022. 44 per cent of e-commerce consumers are planning to spend more on marketplaces in 2022.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2024

Throughout every year, a multitude of major and minor calendar events offer great opportunities to engage with customers at a time when they are open to shopping for friends, families or themselves. One way of driving such feedback is by including it in your email flow to customers post-delivery, including a link to your ratings page.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Memo was founded to take the pain out of shopping for baby goods, an experience that can often be overwhelming for first-time parents. There’s a dedicated space where you can have a bespoke one-on-one gift registry appointment, and then we have a couple of lovely change rooms where we do bra fittings as a service,” Casey explained.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In partnership with the airport, high-end retailer Heinemann is set to launch a new shopping precinct in 2023 with a range of services that will target travellers and non-travellers alike. Heinemann Australia managing director George Tsoukalas told Inside Retail that the domestic department store is not constrained to targeting travellers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Global toy company Lego opened its biggest store in the world in Sydney, Australia, this week, bringing its highly interactive, direct-to-consumer shopping experience to new heights. As a result we’ve got a lot of global attention from the Lego community and the senior management team in Denmark.”

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

The challenge by the client is always the same,” says Alec Zaballero, Managing Executive at TPG. Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. It’s the neighborhood strategy or city planning strategy.”. gallery_holder}}.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Luke Latham, who is GM of Airwallex ANZ, describes Australians’ approach to shopping in the new economic era as “educated spending”. Airwallex is a technology-driven B2B platform that enables businesses to receive funds from consumers and manages currency conversion, treasury management, payments and other financial services for retailers.

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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 The business plans to expand to 200 locations globally by the end of this year, and New Zealand is next on the cards.

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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 The business plans to expand to 200 locations globally by the end of this year, and New Zealand is next on the cards.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Australians’ shopping behaviour has evolved significantly over the past 14 months as Covid-related store closures and lockdowns accelerated the trend towards shopping across a broader range of channels, including apps and social media accounts, via smartphones, computers and tablets. . Offer gift cards.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

Starts at 60, the online news and community hub aimed at seniors, has just launched an e-commerce platform as it looks to become the go-to destination for the growing number of baby boomers shopping online. Older online shopping ‘boom’. But that changed last year. Our site visits have increased 25 per cent,” Evans said.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

But the reality is, today, The Shop Around the Corner would stand a much better chance of survival, thanks to the revival of indie bookstores in recent years. It is with a similar plan that Barnes & Noble has begun to shift its image from a large corporation to a welcoming “indie” version of a bookstore chain.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2023

Pop Mart recently acquired UK-based retailing company, Mogic, as part of its plan to strengthen its presence in the European market, and it has opened its first store in Malaysia, ahead of further growth in Southeast Asia. There are several countries in the pipeline and we will announce which ones once the plan is firmed up,” he added.

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Show Best

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s the holiday season, and many people spend much of their time shopping for the perfect gifts for their loved ones. As people shop around popular retail stores, they’ll be drawn to the carefully and beautifully crafted displays and fixture setups showcasing the brand’s popular and in-demand merchandise.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2024

Here, the focus is on achieving balanced growth, anchoring strategies in long-term value creation through strategic pricing, effective customer relationship management, and a thorough grasp of unit economics. The sustainable growth and profitability cycle The other cycle adopts a more sustainable approach.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The country’s growing economy and expanding middle class have created a favourable environment for global brands to set up shop and tap into a new consumer base. This can range from religious festivals to gifting occasions throughout the year, as well as significant purchases that happen during lavish celebrations and weddings.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

It’s a gamechanger for the brand,” said Lee Devon, vice president and general manager at Athlocity for Under Armour. Its numbers will no longer be flattered by the contribution of Bath & Body Works and its management team will be fully accountable to investors. Macy’s unveils new vision for Herald Square flagship store.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The new outdoor dining experience at QV shopping centre is serving up French champagne, cocktails, and food all summer long. It’s all part of the shopping centre’s plan to lure shoppers, office workers, and uni students back to the CBD for peak season.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Kmart is supporting its charity partner The Salvation Army, donating $50,000 in Kmart gift cards and $25,000 of products to help support cyclone-affected communities. Through this initiative, customers can donate directly, or redeem or gift a service at a later date. At this stage, this is the crux of the initiative,” she said.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Kmart is supporting its charity partner The Salvation Army, donating $50,000 in Kmart gift cards and $25,000 of products to help support cyclone-affected communities. Through this initiative, customers can donate directly, or redeem or gift a service at a later date. At this stage, this is the crux of the initiative,” she said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2021

A new concept store opens at Doncaster Westfield shopping centre today, the first of two to open in Victoria this month, with more than 50 additional sites selected as part of a national roll-out. “I The brand builds on GRBA’s House cooking, dining and entertaining stores with the introduction of bed linen, bath and living ranges.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An army of robots have been recruited to help Toys ‘R’ Us manage Christmas trading — the peak period for toy sales. The company has made an initial investment of $2 million in robot technology at its new warehouse in Dandenong South alongside a state-of-the-art warehouse management system. per cent.”. Christmas trade.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

An army of robots have been recruited to help Toys ‘R’ Us manage Christmas trading — the peak period for toy sales. The company has made an initial investment of $2 million in robot technology at its new warehouse in Dandenong South alongside a state-of-the-art warehouse management system. per cent.”. Christmas trade.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The latter may take longer to implement but the next eight weeks could be spent creating an execution plan. Or you could take a leaf out of online retailer Etsy’s book and explore easy-to-implement functionality, such as helping them optimise their digital shop window – which in turn can win the trust of sellers on the platform.

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