Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2023

Children’s goods retailer Toys ‘R’ Us says it plans to open a 3000sqm experiential retail hub in Victoria if the company’s capital raising plan is successful. Meanwhile, the company will deploy $3 million to support the rollout of new Toys ‘R’ Us stores located inside WH Smith high street shops in the UK.

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Retail Times

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The company has declared November 19 as ‘Done Day’, the official day to finish Christmas gift shopping with Clearpay and pay it off in four instalments to be clear by the New Year. Clearpay, a leader in “Buy Now, Pay Later” payments known as Afterpay outside the UK and Europe, is encouraging Brits to get organised this festive season.

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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 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

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”. In Australia in contrast, two new openings are planned in Pimpama, Queensland, and Perth by 2025.

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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

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. The retailer has also announced plans for leadership renewal after Spencer steps down towards the end of the year. For the six months to December 26, sales grew 6.6 per cent to $254.9

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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

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

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

MAY 9, 2021

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. SS: Covid has undoubtedly impacted the way consumers are shopping, and it’s impossible to ignore the consistent growth in the digital space as a result.

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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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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. 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

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

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

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The increase in spending will have come as a relief to retailers that feared another slow month, but possibly at the expense of a more robust holiday shopping period overall. Still, many shoppers have indicated that they are planning to wait for ‘better deals’ closer to the end of the year. Australians spent an average of $165.70

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Christmas is coming early for retailers, with Australians preparing to spend $11 billion on Christmas gifts and a staggering 80 per cent expected to purchase before December, figures from Roy Morgan show. As a result, many Australians are encouraged to start their Christmas shopping early to avoid disappointment. What’s your plan?

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

Luxury retailers established hard shops around the atrium, making the ground floor a combination of luxury mall and department store aesthetics. The strategy is inspired by the city plan of Paris, strategically driving the customer down the ‘boulevard’ to the next feature,” says Zaballero.

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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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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

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The silly season, as it has come to be affectionately known, is a time when we are expected to be socially available, navigate crowded stores and attempt to find the perfect gifts for loved ones. He “hates surprise gifts and the expectation that I am supposed to know what to buy for everyone”. Will has ADHD and is dyslexic.

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E Delevry

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Worries around retailers being able to deliver gifts in time is prompting customers to shop early, according to new research from Bright Data. When it comes to online shopping, 53% of respondents who currently only shop online said they will do more shopping online this holiday season.

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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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Retail Focus

JANUARY 9, 2023

Unveiling all-new window displays and unexpected visual pleasures in its physical and digital spaces, ‘ Selfridges Celebrates ‘ is Selfridges playful take on how to shop and plan for the moments in life that call for joyful celebration. Photographer: Ollie Dixon for Selfridges. Photographer: Ollie Dixon for Selfridges.

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Retail Focus

MAY 11, 2021

Over the last year, restrictions around ceremonies and receptions have halted or postponed over 150,000 couples’ plans – that’s over 60% of the number of weddings scheduled to happen in 2020. This summer, Selfridges will offer a wedding experience for couples looking for a non-traditional ceremony in a venue like no other.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to plan a romantic evening and have something to look forward to again! Yet, it’s no secret that finding the perfect gift can be tricky. To give you some inspiration, we’ve put together a brief gift guide on presents that are sure to make your other half beam on February the 14th.

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Tusco Display

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Holiday Shopping In 2021: Short Supply And High Demand Throughout the pandemic, Tusco Display has been focused on maintaining operations while keeping our teams safe despite uncertainty. If they want their gifts ready for the holidays, their purchases are starting now. Delta’s Impact On In-Store Stock.

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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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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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Retailing Insight

JANUARY 23, 2021

Though retailers may feel as if they are facing an uncertain future, particularly because stay-at-home advisories are being reimplemented as the pandemic surges again in the winter months, the good news is that the traditional, in-person shopping experience is still valued by the majority of consumers. One-of-a-Kind Items.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

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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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