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Can Premier replicate Smiggle’s UK success with pyjama brand Peter Alexander?

Inside Retail

This will be the first time Peter Alexander ventures outside of Australia and New Zealand since its failed entry into the US market in 2008. Some analysts have described Peter Alexander as an “unproven” brand outside of Australian and New Zealand markets. million for its first-half sales results.

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Collapsed Missguided snapped up by Frasers Group

Inside Retail

Frasers Group has bought fast-fashion business Missguided and plans to set it up as a standalone business within the group. Missguided was founded online in 2009 by Nitin Passi, the daughter of an Indian immigrant who set up the high street supplier By Design in the 1960s. Teneo was appointed administrator this week.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Gen Z Alternative to Credit Cards

Retail TouchPoints

In the midst of rising inflation rates, many Americans are wondering how to cut their costs — and younger generations such as Gen Z may have found a solution in the short term with “buy now, pay later” or BNPL plans. With the advent of Apple’s Pay Later offering, greater attention has been paid to the BNPL market.

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AO open ‘rework’ facility to give new lease of life to returned appliances

A1 Retail

Online electricals retailer AO has announced that it has opened a new ‘rework’ facility to give returned appliances a new lease of life. Operating out of its ‘Latchford’ warehouse in Crewe, appliances returned by customers will be thoroughly tested with the aim of reselling them.

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eCommerce and its Profitability Issue. Why its So Hard to Make Money

Indigo 9 Digital

If getting the order to you is expensive what about returns? This process of ordering and returning goods is very expensive. million on “refunds, returns, and discounts”. High marketing costs are one reason for Casper’s struggles but returns have also eaten into the brand’s profitability. In 2018 Casper spent $80.7

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Analysis: Decision time looms at DJs and Myer boardrooms

Inside Retail

Myer floated on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2009 with a market capitalisation of $2.4 The retailer has also retreated from its plan to drive foot traffic and sales through an upmarket food offer in stand-alone stores and has terminated a co-location food concept selling fresh and packaged food in 35 BP service stations.

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Inside the Online Bookstore Building a ‘Model for Small Businesses to Compete with Amazon’

Retail TouchPoints

It wouldn’t be precisely accurate to count Bookshop.org among the successful conquerors, since its 1% market share of print book sales is dwarfed by Amazon’s approximately 50% (by some estimates, it’s even more). But then, “from the years of like 2009 to 2018, I just watched Amazon start eating everybody’s lunch,” he said.

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