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A look at Sanity’s final days: What happens when a retailer says goodbye?

Inside Retail

Itaoui – who joined Sanity as an area manager in 2001, according to the Australian Financial Review – acknowledged that the business was unable to survive the diminishing availability of physical content, as well as a shift in demand toward digital content among consumers.

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Why Nike is putting used sneakers back on the shelf

Inside Retail

Nike will start collecting and cleaning some of the sneakers that are returned by customers and reselling them at a discount in stores as part of its Nike Refurbished program, which launched on Monday. . A number of different products and tools are used to return them to as close to new condition as possible, according to Nike.

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Optics for hyperscale data centers (Part 1 of 4): Cisco Optics Podcast Episode 25 notes

Cisco Retail

In Episode 25, Ron Horan, Cisco Senior Director of Product Management returns and we start a new conversation based on his experience in this space. Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager. Director of Sales and Strategic Account Manager covering the Hewlett Packard worldwide account. Related links.

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Retail appointments of the week

Inside Retail

Russel Creedy, group CEO, joined the business in 2001 as supply chain manager and served as GM for Pizza Hut in New Zealand. Restaurant Brands is a corporate franchisee and specialises in managing multi-site branded food retail chains. He took on the CEO role in 2007. Creedy will retire on 31 March next year. “I

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Retail appointments for the week

Inside Retail

On Friday, JB Hi-Fi Group CEO Richard Murray officially left the consumer electronics company, where he has held various roles for the past 18 years, to lead Solomon Lew’s Premier Retail business; Terry Smart, previously managing director of The Good Guys and CEO of JB Hi-Fi, took over the top position.

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Workforce first: why staff wellbeing should be high on the agenda for the retail industry

Retail Focus

Here, Toma Pagojute, Chief HR Officer at workforce management solutions provider Quinyx, outlines why retail bosses need to adopt a people-first approach in order to succeed this season, and how they can help retain their staff during ‘The Big Quit’. But what happens when a shortage of people is one of your biggest challenges?

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Best of 2023: Is private equity ownership slowly killing retail?

Retail Gazette

The private equity-owned grocer is not alone in its quest to manage debt. As both supermarkets look to manage soaring debt piles, can these firms truly compete and thrive or could this lead to a downward spiral for the private equity owned retailers? Debt piling: A burden or helping hand?

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