Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These are pressing questions that many in the industry will be asking themselves in the final few big shopping days of the year. Bali Christmas honeymoon Chadstone, Australia’s biggest shopping centre, anticipates hosting half a million visitors this week and 4.5 Here is what’s happening.

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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. These dates can inspire marketers to think outside the box and create opportunities they might not have considered. “You

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Such economic strain is leading to behavioural changes in the way consumers are shopping and planning their festive budgets. Knowing your consumers is paramount to planning the holiday season effectively. Customers will remember brands where they had a more positive shopping experience and brands where they did not.

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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 technology combines PayWave and credit card payment with dispensing capabilities for gift cards between $25 – $100. Challenging perceptions.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

He opened one in Melbourne a month later, and another in Brisbane just two months after that, and by the end of the year, he had nine shops employing 50 people. We want to be known as the world’s most approachable bike shop”. Australia is the strongest market for the business. The company achieved an 82.6,

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Specialty baby goods retailer Baby Bunting has reported a dramatic slump in its interim profits as consumers return to pre-pandemic shopping behaviours. Spencer said gains in market share made during the pandemic have predominantly been held. For the six months to December 26, sales grew 6.6 per cent to $254.9 per cent during the half.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall. We want to grow, learn, and evolve alongside our customers’ shopping behaviours.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Despite the efforts that go into planning, maintaining and marketing local shopping areas, the people who use these places are often not consulted about what they actually want and need on their main street. What are the key shops and services? We wanted to find out what consumers see as their ideal local shopping street.

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Retail Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Shopping centres are so much more than a place to purchase a new outfit or a loved one’s birthday gift. Online shopping continues to grow even post-pandemic, meaning it’s never been more important that these complexes continue to differentiate themselves from online retailers, cementing their place in society.

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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

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. Online sales continue to soar.

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Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

SS: The market trends are consistent with what Witchery has experienced in the past 12 months. 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. IR: A lot of retailers have done some significant work since last year.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

It’s a trend that’s also playing out close to home with Roy Morgan’s Future of Australian Retail address highlighting the dichotomy between the $8 billion in sales cheap offshore marketplaces are sucking out of the market versus the increase in people wanting to shop more ethically and sustainably while still looking for quality.

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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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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. This represents a year-on-year increase of 9% in the US market.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2024

Stores are syncing product releases and advertising campaigns to calendar events, meanwhile, consumers are planning their purchases to the retail calendar. Inside Retail spoke to Dr Jason Pallant, RMIT senior marketing lecturer, to unpack how retail became reliant on event-based sales and strategies to regain year-long stability.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I think with an increasing customer demand for online shopping when people are making important decisions, customers want to have conversations with an experienced stylist,” explained Lenton. Additionally, these wishlists can also be shared with family, friends and loved ones who may need a hint when it comes to shopping for presents.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Retailers worldwide have battled slowing conditions, with Australian footwear giant Accent Group and American fashion brand Guess recently highlighting the impact lower consumer confidence is having on the wider market. Still, many shoppers have indicated that they are planning to wait for ‘better deals’ closer to the end of the year.

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Jahabow

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The holiday shopping season is traditionally a huge revenue driver for retailers, but that’s especially true this year, as many businesses are looking to make up for time lost due to the events of the last several months. Many email marketing tools offer scheduling and automation options that are easy to set up. Use Smart Scheduling.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Gifts have long since been a consumer favourite for Valentine’s Day celebrations. It’s a way for consumers to show their loved one’s admiration and gratitude on a love-filled day, yet as the global supply chain disruption lingers into 2022, consumers are becoming more reluctant in purchasing presents for this shopping event.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2024

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and retailers are already gearing up for one of the most commercially viable days of the shopping year. On average, consumers spent US$192.80 According to the NRF and Prosper Insight & Analytics, consumers spent US$25.9 billion on Valentine’s Day last year, up from US$23.9 billion in 2022.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

WASHINGTON, November 30, 2021 – Nearly 180 million Americans shopped during the five-day holiday shopping period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. In total, 179.8 million shoppers visiting stores, up from 92.3

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 1, 2023

As a result, chocolate confectionery prices in Australia have surged, with companies targeting both ends of the market to stimulate sales. 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.

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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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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Today, the company has announced they are taking this concept one step further by opening the doors this fall to a radically different 16,000 ft 2 shopping experience. We are thrilled to offer our customers an elevated experience that is much more than a shop.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2023

The month-long festivities that include gift exchanges, iftar events and shopping for new clothes and house decor has always had a significant impact on retail in years before, however, this year marks the first Ramadan celebrations for some time without any Covid restrictions. As part of the campaign, Sephora also aired the ‘Be Kind.

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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’. A race to reach baby boomers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

In recent years, India has emerged as a major market for luxury brands. 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. And Apple is far from the only premium brand eyeing the opportunity.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Sephora’s entry into the UK market has been well received by all of its UK fans who gave the White City store its biggest ever opening – with 5,000 people attending the opening day. SEPHORA is opening its second UK store in Westfield Stratford on November 15th, 2023. Sales continue to be +300% vs expectations.

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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. The holiday season “is a bit of an unknown, but I think all we can do is do our best in the market and the environment we’re in.”

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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. We are very excited about the opportunity to reach this large [and] dynamic market.”. Proof of concept. Extremely resilient.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

Global Retail Brands Australia (GRBA) is making an aggressive push into the home furnishings market with the launch of a new brand, House – Bed & Bath. This provides the environment to introduce quality and price pointed accessibility of our brands to new markets across Australia,” Lew said.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

However, Venus et Fleur’s latest location, the luxury gifting brand’s 10th store, at the River Oaks District shopping complex in Houston, Texas, makes the case for bringing back a bold aesthetic. The 300-square-foot shop packs a punch, both visually and on an olfactory level.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

Due to growing safety concerns, especially for femme-presenting individuals and the elderly, the market for non-lethal self-defense weapons, such as pepper sprays or wearable devices, is expanding, especially in North America. According to Verified Market Research , the self-defense products market was valued at around $2.9

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