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How 99 Bikes plans to return to profit with an electric-powered push

Inside Retail

Australian specialty retailer 99 Bikes has announced its B Corp certification as the business continues to backpedal from its $12.4 Bricks-and-mortar retail big business 99 Bikes currently operates 62 stores in Australia and New Zealand, seven in the US and four in the UK. Australia is the strongest market for the business.

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Suburban shopping strips are struggling, but they still have time to evolve

Inside Retail

Bank data and reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate a more severe impact on smaller businesses from consumer spending cutbacks — and many small retailers are located in strip centres. However, there are longer-term factors changing the fabric of strip centres.

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Revived MKT Square brings opportunities to Brisbane’s north

Inside Retail

Located in the rapidly growing Moreton Bay region, MKT Square’s stage two master-planned multi-million-dollar transformation is nearing completion, offering retail and hospitality operators far and wide the opportunity to be part of the growing market.

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Open to Buy: The Retail Business Art

Retailing Insight

After all, retail is supposed to fun, especially in the wellness market. When done well, it creates an integrated buying and merchandising approach that ties together your marketing, customer service, point of sale, accounting, and operations and focuses all of them on one thing: great cash flow. Good, hard, spendable cash.

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What is Omni-channel Retail?

Retail Bound

Although many new product companies are finding success selling on Shopify or Amazon, online sales still only represent 20% of all retail sales, whereas offline channels like brick-and-mortar locations, catalog, TV Shopping and Reward and Incentive markets represent 80%. It is a $3.9

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Here’s how Best & Less plans to stand out in the crowded discount sector

Inside Retail

Best & Less sees itself as a hybrid between a discount department store (DDS) and specialty retailer. “We We are a value retailer, like DDS participants, but we approach it with a specialty mindset. For us, quality and value must go hand in hand,” Orrock said. “We However, profitability is key.

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How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers

Inside Retail

We have continuously worked with all our tenants to come up with robust marketing strategies to encourage customer traffic and spending, including creating promotional areas at high traffic areas, assisting with shopping and dining vouchers, and continuing with our shopper rewards and redemption programs.