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A cost-of-living crisis is brewing in Asia. Here’s what it means for retail

Inside Retail

The country’s Wholesale Price Index is up more than three times the pace of the CPI, at 9.7 The measures include reducing household electricity and gas bills, and extending subsidies for oil wholesalers to maintain gasoline and other fuel prices at artificially lower levels. per cent, department stores were up 42.8

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Down, but not out: Welcome to the new physical retail

Inside Retail

Shoppers will be able to checkout the traditional way, or via self-checkout kiosks, or via a roving staff member’s mobile POS terminal. Online retailers moving into physical stores is no longer new. Or Alibaba’s Freshippo omnichannel stores, which launched in 2016 and now number 200 locations across China.

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