Retail Focus

JULY 20, 2021

A multi-million pound programme of investment announced today by Ellandi , a UK privately-owned shopping centre operator, is set to transform Merry Hill shopping centre near Birmingham into a best-in-class regional retail destination and the most vibrant family lifestyle destination in the West Midlands by July 2025.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2023

The shopping centre has a lettable area of 99,873sqm and is anchored by Myer, Big W, Kmart, and Target alongside a triple supermarket offering in Coles, Woolworths, and Aldi and approximately 240 specialty stores. The centre boasts robust annual retail sales of $532 million and welcomes about 9.7 million customers a year. “A

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Australia Post’s head of South Australian delivery operations Rob Clothier said the new facility will help to manage the surge in online shopping as a result of the pandemic, with September’s parcel volumes up 7 per cent in SA compared to a year prior. “We billion overall.

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Parcel Pending

JANUARY 20, 2023

Improving the campus store retail experience is not only about knowledgeable staff and shorter lines at the checkout, it is also about the speed and efficiency of the returns process for customers and store employees alike. This is in spite of the fact that retail sales figures have seen steady growth over the past three years.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 21, 2023

Mocka sales fell 24.1 million as customers returned to in-store shopping and the brand moved on from FY22 operational issues and improved customer confidence by enhancing product design and quality. For the first seven weeks of FY24, group sales fell 8.9 per cent to $48.6

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

The centre’s tenant lineup is a who’s who of high-end retail, featuring designers from all around the world. Prior to Gotemba, Japan’s retail market was tightly regulated and the industry in bad shape. Government statistics show that at the time of Gotemba’s opening, retail sales in Japan had fallen for 42 consecutive months.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Elijah Etri, Skippy’s Fresh Frootz manager at Victoria Point, Queensland, has started a new Tiktok challenge, encouraging viewers to head into their local supermarket and check the prices of comparable produce and products. Private-label brand sales account for 18.1 per cent overall of all FMCG retail sales.

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Parcel Pending

MAY 18, 2021

Online shopping is booming like never before. In fact, eMarketer predicts that online retail sales will grow 17.9% And by 2024, eMarketer predicts ecommerce’s share of total retail sales will exceed 20% 1. Today’s college students are some of the key players in the online shopping boom. was online 6.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

Keeping pace with consumer trends and changing behaviours is key to the success of retail operations, particularly when managing the impact of current global events on supply chains to ensure they’re able to consistently meet demand. . Three of six key trends identified in ASCG’s latest eBook research include: 1) Spread the cost.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It’s also an important time for retail staff, with many retailers taking on additional Christmas workforces to keep up with demand. However, the emergence of BFCM, and the fact many of these sales are predominantly online, has impacted the Christmas period significantly. Consider this; last year retail sales in November rose 5.8%

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2022

Located in the northern suburbs of the Gold Coast, Homeworld Helensvale spans 36,000sqm of lettable area and has a diverse mix of health and medical, retail, lifestyle, dining and daily needs tenants.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2023

But the rise of competing shopping hubs like China’s Hainan island, changing consumer preferences and a rise in online shopping have fundamentally changed demand for luxury goods in Hong Kong and are starting to reshape the city’s visitor economy, according to industry experts. Few, however, were shopping for designer gear.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The group plans to review its retail operations and identify any new opportunities that a different corporate structure could bring to Smiggle and Peter Alexander, up to a potential demerger of the brands, and to analyse any potential capital requirements, management structures, and separation costs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Cyber Monday, the first Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday, is set to be the biggest US online shopping day of the year as merchants have stepped up online promotions. Other firms use different measurements to gauge online shopping patterns. per cent on Black Friday, while in-store sales rose 1 per cent.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

New concept stores, wholesale distribution and an online shopping site are set to roll out early next year. . It currently has operations in over 50 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa, with a wholesale distribution network of 4000 points-of-sale, 120 mono-brand stores and 90 corners and shops-in-shop.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Boosted by the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, November has overtaken December for retail sales for the past three years. November 2021 seems likely to again be crucial to Christmas trading results for retailers with consumers having been urged to shop early to avoid possible product shortages. per cent jump.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

Murphy opened his first bottle shop in 1952 in Chapel Street, Prahran, Victoria, and differentiated the business by offering a guarantee to beat competitors’ prices. We haven’t seen any indication of customers trading down when it comes to the products they shop for with us,” Pfeiffer-Smith said.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The tradition of gift-giving at Christmas drives billions of dollars in retail sales every year. According to a recent survey commissioned by The Body Shop, 1.5 Charity retailer Salvos Stores aims to tackle the unintended waste around Christmas by encouraging more consumers to purchase secondhand gifts.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

per cent – retailers might be expecting tough economic conditions, as consumers are expected to cut back. . According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), retail sales were up 19.2 With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) increasing interest rates for six straight months – most recently, a 0.25

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Australian retail sales are on the rise, but new research suggests that this growth is driven by inflation, not by consumers buying more. Cost-to-serve elements are essential to managing price and profit but can be overlooked in the race to stand out on value perceptions or promotions. .

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

Data shows the rapid increase in online shopping that defined the first year of the global pandemic has started to fade, as the novelty of lockdowns wears off and government stimuluses run out, and online retailers that once enjoyed record highs are now working harder to drive sales. People don’t have the stimulus.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Retail sales rebounded slightly in August, up 1.1 per cent according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, but retail’s focus is largely on the upcoming, and potentially open, Christmas shopping season. At the moment, every day feels like Christmas at Australia Post,” said executive general manager people and culture Sue Davies.

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VMS

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This year is expected to set a returns record, partly because retail sales are forecast to rise versus last year — some estimate the increase may be as much as 15 percent, driven in part by higher prices, Forbes reports. However, tightening these policies may prove tricky. Click here for the full article from Forbes.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

In Britain, its biggest market Asos saw sales fall 8 per cent in the four months to December 31, hurt by Christmas delivery problems, which shook customer confidence in online, and a tough comparison against last year when, by contrast, the pandemic pushed people to shop online. per cent on the year.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2022

We now know October retail sales shrank for the first time this year ending a run of nine months straight of month-to-month growth. With the Reserve Bank expected to give us another rate bump before Christmas, retailers must be frowning a little more each day. To keep the cash registers ringing, retailers had little option.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2022

million digitally active customers with Australian retailers, we can save consumers money while boosting retailers’ sales. Looking at the year ahead, one big question for Australian retailers will be how to maintain and build on these digital connections with consumers and find new incremental channels for growth.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Amazon.com has posted its fourth straight quarter of record profits, thanks to the global shift to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. . billion on sales of US$108.5 billion on sales of US$108.5 The two-day online shopping event occurred in October last year due to uncertainty around the pandemic. “In

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

It will be Sheike’s first location outside of a shopping centre and one of the first to feature the brand’s new design concept, which rolled out in the brand’s Karrinyup and Robina stores last year, and includes marble and brass finishes. “It’s We’re all about style. We want to be that go-to style authority,” she said. “We

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 20, 2022

As we know, today’s consumers are doing much of their shopping online. billion on online retail , accounting for around 13.2 per cent of the total retail sales (NAB). Are you ready to reimagine retail marketing? Between May 2020 and May 2021, Australians spent $48.1

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

After multiple paradigm shifts in 2022, retailers are facing a very different landscape in the months ahead. Let’s start with shoppers finally emerging from a Covid-19 cocoon of contemplation and online shopping. Doing the right thing Last year also delivered a case study in the business impact of ESG behaviour.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Customers that had never purchased online were forced to, leading to increased online conversion and sales, as well as longer delivery times and a struggling supply chain. But, with bricks-and-mortar retail soon back on the cards, how will customers’ shifted expectations around shopping change the way retailers need to sell in-store? “I

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The collection was curated and styled by Zerina Akers, a celebrity stylist and the founder of Black Owned Everything, and will be available online and in Nordstrom x Nike shops across the US. It also plans to introduce new resources to help its Black-owned vendors grow and successfully scale their businesses in mass retail.

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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. Pattern Australia has released its fourth annual report on consumer considerations and e-commerce.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 9, 2021

The struggles of the UK high street and the acceleration of retail sales from ‘bricks to clicks’ have never been more apparent than during the Covid-19 pandemic. With e-commerce sales reaching 21.8% Jon Walkington, Retail and System Integrator Sales Director, Schoeller Allibert UK.

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Retail Bound

MARCH 7, 2023

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%.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2022

You’ve chosen a great retail sales program for your team. Training your team is a significant investment, so it’s important to ensure that it’s driving the results you need, such as improved sales figures, growth in conversions, or net promoter scores. . Download: 3 Sales Coaching Tips for Busy Retail Managers.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 14, 2021

In the USA the term ‘retail apocalypse’ is being used widely to describe the fallout from the pandemic and its subsequent effects. It is predicted that over the next few years, around 80,000 retail units will close across the states. This will bring an end to many shopping malls too as people choose different ways to shop.

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