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From Omnichannel to Polychannel: How FMCG Shopping is Changing

Retail TouchPoints

With consumers now influenced by 11 touch points on average before making a purchase decision, the growth in retail marketing opportunities across online and offline channels, accessed both in-store and on-device, will provide marketers with conversion opportunities to sell to the polychannel consumer.

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Poundland sale puts 200 stores and thousands of jobs at risk

Retail Gazette

In 2017, it moved away from its iconic 1 price point to a multi-price format, with products now ranging between 50p and 5. However, up to 200 loss-making stores have been identified as potential closures under the terms of any prospective deal, according to reports in The Sunday Telegraph.

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NRF’25: How Sam’s Club China and Golden ABC forged unique paths to success

Inside Retail

At a time when the Chinese retail market was starting to trend in the opposite direction, with everything getting smaller and hypermarkets downsizing, Sams Club began to build 200,000sqft big boxes and charging customers a membership fee for the right to shop there. They want a better quality of life. That presented an opportunity.

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How Chinese tea chain Chagee brewed a $6.2 billion Nasdaq debut 

Inside Retail

But the story brewing underneath is more than a capital markets curiosity. Founded in 2017 by Junjie Zhang, who at 30 years old now finds himself a newly minted billionaire, Chagee emerged not as another sugary bubble tea vendor but as a disruptor of that very wave. billion Nasdaq debut appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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From China to India, how the world’s retail markets stack up: report

Inside Retail

China is the world’s largest retail market, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global retail transactions. trillion in 2022 and grew at a CAGR of 8 per cent from 2017 to 2022. China’s e-commerce market, worth $1.9 It was valued at $3.8

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The Future of Retail Takes a Digital Shift to Omnichannel Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

Finally, the once-static world of retail marketing is transforming. One by one, retailers are finding that their marketing models — co-op driven, lacking in transparency, and largely traditional in form — are secondary options when compared to the self-serve, data-driven models of digital marketplaces.

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Breaking down the clever approach to Chemist Warehouse’s public listing

Inside Retail

In the case of Chemist Warehouse, the acquisition would position it as a superpower in the Australian pharmaceutical market, dominating the wholesale and retail markets through vertical acquisitions across the value chain. A benefit of this strategy is the ability to bypass regulatory filings, or the funding to go public.