Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

So far, Australian department stores appear to have weathered the pandemic better than their global counterparts, with most having only had moderate store closures and delivering relatively strong half-yearly results, with retail sales rising at twice the predicted rate from March 2021 to April 2021.

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

While the retail sector had been a standout in March 2020, as actual spending and spending intentions surged during the early stages of the pandemic, retail spending and spending intentions growth had stabilised in recent months.

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Beauty and Health Department Stores Pattern Consumer 246

Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2023

Walmart] would undoubtedly have seen Amazon’s massive growth over the past few years take a big chunk out of their market share, necessitating a need to win back their customers’ attention with a reinvigorated, integrated omni-channel shopping experience,” he told Inside Retail. Chia pointed out that Walmart only accounts for 6.3

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2022

And while the business’ retail division is ending the year on strong footing, potentially more impressive is its digital uptake. Donohue noted that the group sees an opportunity to better personalise its marketing content for its growing loyal customer base: with the ‘My Dan’ loyalty program jumping 15 per cent to over 4.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

With consumer confidence well below 100, inflation high, and interest rates fuelling concerns about mortgage stress and negative equity – and the continuing spectre of recession – we would expect to see highly predictable patterns of behaviour. I can reveal that retail sales for Q1 of 2023 are forecast to be $99.9

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I’ll start with a particularly interesting one that has strong voices on either side: what proportion of sales will be online in 2022? Last year, I interviewed Jonathan Reeves from Eagle Eye for my Shopology show and he predicted that online would account for half of retail sales by 2030. Now it doesn’t seem so far out of reach.

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Barber Design

AUGUST 19, 2016

Indications are that this heightened performance was driven by elements of retail strategy and promotional activity across the retail sales industry during this period. In the first full month since the EU referendum result, like-for-like retail sales jumped by 1.1% Food sales rise.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 8, 2022

Visual merchandising is a marketing practice that retailers and consumer products companies use to capture people’s attention so they’re more likely to purchase something. Since then, the market has become saturated with competition. Many retailers also practice visual merchandising in their stores.

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Multi-level marketing has touched us all – whether it be purchasing beauty products, essential oils, or health supplements from a friend through social media, or receiving an invitation to join a team of seemingly successful people working their “side hustle.” The potential for legal snags may be hidden in the seams.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2023

The report found that Australians between 25-29 were more likely to be in the rental or housing market, and were subsequently making the most significant spending reductions to afford rising costs. Volley content and marketing manager Anna Geason told Inside Retail that the usual Volley customer is usually aged between 35-44 years old.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

The big question that remains to be seen is whether they will revert back to their former purchasing patterns and forgo their reliance on e-commerce to keep their refrigerators and pantries stocked post-pandemic. Globally, Asia dominates the e-commerce universe, accounting for over 50 per cent of all retail sales.

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Consumer Shopping Pattern Marketing 147

RetailMinded

OCTOBER 2, 2023

According to a report by Maersk, 40% of retailers have wanted to increase the resilience of their supply chains since the global pandemic, which impacted businesses. Challenge 2: Efficient Inventory Management Challenge: Maintaining optimal inventory levels is a critical aspect of retail.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

After a month of fasting from 23 March to 21 April, Eid al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, will be celebrated for around two days, and will most likely lead to an increase in retail sales. Sales figures continued to rise during Ramadan until approximately one week before Eid.

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