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AUGUST 16, 2024

Plans for a $65 million expansive retail centre have been revealed for the Aura community in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The post Plans revealed for $65 million retail precinct on the Sunshine Coast appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JULY 22, 2024

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority had also scrutinised Google’s plan over concerns it would impede competition in digital advertising.

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JULY 26, 2024

Supermarket chain Aldi has dropped its plan to expand into online shopping believing it might affect its ability to continue providing low-cost products for customers. The post Aldi confirms it has abandoned plans to launch online shopping appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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APRIL 29, 2024

The store is the Christian charity’s 11th to open this year and Salvos said it plans to add another 25 by the end of the year. The post Salvos opens 400th store, 25 more planned this year appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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JULY 24, 2024

The post Country Road Group may layoff staff in planned restructure appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Meanwhile, Country Road Group has already tapped consulting firm Bendelta to help rebuild its company culture amid the complaints. Country Road Group’s brands include Country Road, Trenery, Mimco, Witchery and Politix.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

Hog’s Breath Cafe is looking to rebuild its restaurant footprint, and has plans to open another 20 restaurants by 2029. He has a number of growth solutions, including opening corporate stores with a plan to franchise them once established. Right now we are negotiating with financial partners for us to expand faster,” Spurgin said. “We

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

If you manage or influence customer deliveries, if you haven’t done so, implementing optimised transport route planning is a game-changer for your bottom line. Automate planning : Reduce planning time with automated route planning. Implement a system that reduces the overall planning time. Easier said than done?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The post Hello Kitty pop-up planned in Melbourne to mark 50th birthday appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. The shopping centre will also host a dedicated Hello Kitty Main Street, featuring activities for kids from September 21 to October 6, with tickets available at $5 per child.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Ryohin Keikaku executive vice-president and director Satoshi Shimizu delivered a new management policy plan for Muji on November 15, underscoring the lifestyle brand’s ambition to pursue its “second founding” via global expansion , now that its foundations are firmly laid in Japan. It has identified eight drivers of global growth.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Adore Beauty plans to expand its national retail store network over the next three years to accelerate its omnichannel growth. The post Adore Beauty plans multi-store rollout as it pursues omnichannel growth appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. For the last fiscal year, Adore Beauty posted a 7.4 per cent to 814,000.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2024

The gelato chain has another six stores in the pipeline to open across the country in 2024, and plans to maintain this trajectory for the next five years. Gelatissimo’s strategic growth plan includes expanding into Perth and regional Australia, as well as other cities and coastal towns.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Working on plans for rollout, we know this will cost the same as a current store. Next year will see 12 planned store refurbishments. The post Soul Origin unveils new store design and plans for drive-thru appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. “The first of anything you learn a lot on the way.

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JULY 15, 2024

The post Perth Airport seeks retailers for 32 tenancies in expansion plan appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Perth Airport recorded more than 16.1 million passengers in FY24, with its airline partners continuing to either add or expand their services, according to Holsgrove.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2024

There are another five Sol Bowl sites planned for New South Wales and ACT before FABE takes the brand interstate. The post Piccolo Me parent plans 100 stores for Sol Bowl acquisition appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Sol Bowl founder Lilly Semaan launched the healthy-fast-food business as Soul Bowl in Parramatta in 2017.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sydney’s Paddy’s Market is at the centre of a debate over its redevelopment with some traders and members of the public opposing plans to give the venue a significant facelift. One trader opposing the plan, Judy Kim, said the market is a “Sydney institution” and that generations of families have flocked to the location.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 31, 2023

To revitalise Sydney’s Haymarket and Chinatown streets and public spaces, The City of Sydney has launched a $44 million plan following consultation with 1150 residents. Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore AO, said the “significant investment” would work to safeguard the historic precinct’s success into the future.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. This is how Amazon plans to deliver choice and convenience to consumers without compromising on speed or value.

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JUNE 3, 2024

The post Shein plans its first Perth pop up later this month appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. Shoppers can also interact with Shein’s exclusive beauty bar, offering make-up tutorials and complimentary touch-ups featuring its best-selling Sheglam products.

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MARCH 26, 2024

In addition, the initiative provides intelligence for planning and rostering. The post Coles has plan to enhance customer experience through AI appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. “We also want to understand the impact of and relationship between our operations and the customer experience.”

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MARCH 8, 2024

Oz Hair and Beauty plans to expand to 15 stores by the end of this year, taking its employee count to 165. Three more stores are planned for Sydney, including Rouse Hill, and one each for Canberra Centra, Green Hill in NSW’s Maitland, and key locations in Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has blocked a Bakers Delight plan to install a new product price tiering system for a range of promotional products in its new point-of-sale system. The post Bakers Delight’s promo product pricing plan hits ACCC roadblock appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The company is also planning to open three stores in the Bahamas and 10 in Iraq. The company first revealed plans to target Australia in April last year. The post US chain Duck Donuts plans Australian launch appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2022

Bubble-tea brand Sharetea says it is planning expansion in Australia as the country recovers from Covid restrictions. Established almost 10 years ago, the brand boasts 90 franchised stores now and plans to expand it to 110 stores by the end of this year.

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MAY 2, 2024

In the wake of the tragic Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack on April 13, Australian retailers have been revisiting their emergency response plans to ensure they are fully prepared for every contingency. Retailers revisit emergency response plans appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. The post “What if this happens to us?”:

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AUGUST 18, 2024

The post Booktopia sold to DigiDirect’s owner who plans to hire more staff appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. “Booktopia is an iconic consumer brand and is also an imperative part of the Australian book industry – it’s Australia’s Home of Books. I’m excited about this acquisition and glad it could be kept in Australian hands.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The post PM reveals plans to ban ‘tricky tactics’. ” Consultation with stakeholders will occur before the legislation is finalised, with the reforms expected to be settled in the first half of 2025. Online stores, gyms are top targets appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The deals were all impressive in scale with a common factor: a clear succession plan that allowed the company to react quickly when a sale opportunity came along. Despite the obvious soundness of succession planning, there remains a deep disinclination to create such plans among many middle-market business leaders.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2024

Every week: 30 million SKU locations and 102 million lines of data Near-term forecasts are produced weekly for the replenishment planning and review cycle and, once validated, are transferred into Farmers’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The retailer now processes 1.4 Automated replenishment of 1.4 Visit www.quantiful.ai

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

Retail billionaire Solomon Lew has announced plans to spin off two major brands Peter Alexander and Smiggle from his public company Premier Investments next year, as part of a global expansion strategy. The brand has announced its plans to expand into the UK, with the first two stores and dedicated website launched before Christmas.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Working with retailers across Australia and New Zealand, Quantiful CEO Jamie Cormack has identified poor planning outcomes as one of the significant causes forcing retailers to contract and even close stores today. The innovation is a demand planning tool that delivers accurate forecasts and illustrates what is driving demand.”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2024

However, Temple & Webster plans to join the club by investing in technology to scale and gain a competitive advantage. The post Temple & Webster’s $1 billion business plan and “openness to try new things” appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Lego has scrapped its plans to make its bricks from recycled bottles after discovering the method does not reduce emissions and, when adopted at scale, would leave a higher carbon footprint. The post Lego scraps plans to make bricks from recycled bottles appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2023

Incoming CEO Vlad Yakubson will start earlier than planned on October 9. The post Dusk plans e-commerce overhaul as sales slip appeared first on Inside Retail. Looking forward, the company says its Dusk website will be re-platformed and redesigned in the second half of the new financial year.

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