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Europe’s largest luxury watch house opens in Promenaden, Oslo’s Fashion District

Retail Focus

In line with the heightened demand for experiential shopping experiences, Bjerke House will feature a dedicated events space on its second floor, as well as in-store workshops and the first physical Bjerke Vintage & Pre-Owned concept store. S&S celebrated its best every trading period with sales up 14% in H1 2024.

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Reject Shop brushes off wage theft class action as ‘immaterial’

Inside Retail

Discount retailer The Reject Shop is facing a class action lawsuit for “purported underpayments” to staff, launched by specialist law firm Adero Law Between February 2016 and April 2021, seven former employees of the discount retailer allege underpayment during their employment with the company.

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Subway Has Closed Over 1,600 Locations Since 2022 in the United States

Retail Wire

Subway Closed Over 1,600 Locations Since 2022 According to USA Today , which examined franchise disclosure records for its report, the number of Subway shops in the U.S. The declines have persisted since 2016. Let’s look at what’s going on and what that means for the brand’s future. making it the second largest.

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Consolidation and live shopping: Four e-commerce trends to watch in 2023

Inside Retail

Social commerce and live shopping. Browsing and shopping directly on social media platforms has long been a hallmark of e-commerce in China, now, it’s finally coming to Australia. Half of the GTV of e-commerce in China now comes from live shopping. Live shopping is essentially the modern-day, more sophisticated version of TVSN.

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Australia’s top retailers recognised for customer experience

Inside Retail

. “Priceline’s relentless innovation and continued efforts to refine its digital and physical retail offering have positioned it at the forefront of the Australian market not just as a pharmacy but a leading omnichannel shopping destination for consumers,” said the judges.

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7 Ways Service Providers can Motivate Customers with Digital Incentives

Retail TouchPoints

Many dry cleaning customers probably shop at these types of stores. Baradoy also led Lightrail – an API payment infrastructure for customer value – as CEO from 2016-2020. A dry cleaner, meanwhile, might offer a digital gift card for a clothing retailer (or a choice of several) instead of discounting its services.

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Landsec sets aside millions to snap up prime shopping centres

Retail Gazette

Property developer Land Securities has set aside hundreds of millions to acquire more shopping centres over the coming months. It has designated the best part of £600m to spend on snapping up more assets, some of which it spent increasing its share in Bluewater shopping centre this year.