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Lifting the logo: Inside the rebrand of Thai supermarket Lotus’s

Inside Retail

By the end of this year, the company expects all of its stores to have been repainted and renamed, with the old red and green Tesco-Lotus signage replaced by the breezy pastel green and yellow Lotus’s. The specialty store space is exhaustively leased, with seemingly not a single square metre of floor space being left unattended.

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Why it’s good to be a mall operator in the Philippines right now

Inside Retail

The booming retail business Aside from the retail properties, SM Investments also has a separate retail arm consisting of about 3850 department stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and specialty stores. Same-store sales have been increasing at a rate above 6 per cent and twice that at its 74 department stores.

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Central Retail: Expansions and omnichannel drive growth

Inside Retail

This year, Central plans to open four new home-improvement stores, 10 supermarkets/food halls and four Go Wholesale warehouses in Thailand, plus two Go! stores in Vietnam. Omnichannel grew by another 10 per cent, year over year in the fourth quarter and now accounts for 20 per cent of company sales. billion Thai baht.

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Why department stores are thriving in Japan even as the US sector shrinks

Inside Retail

Broken out by store type, growth was not even across the board. The nation’s 56,000 convenience stores posted a sales increase of 5.4 Large specialty stores selling home appliances (2,667 of them) were down by 4.6 per cent and home improvement sales (4,440 stores) were down 0.4 Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8

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PLMA’s Show to hail ‘Store Brands Phenomenon’

Mass Relators

Store brands accounted for nearly one-third of all new sales flowing into U.S. And there’s more to come, according to PLMA, which says that every day, store brand products are moving into new categories, chains, channels, and platforms. Sales and dollar and unit market shares are at all-time highs. retailing last year.

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Department stores still drive retail sales growth in Japan – for now

Inside Retail

Segmented by broad store categories though, growth has been anything but even. For large specialty stores selling home appliances (2,700 of them) and home improvement stores (4,440 of those) it has been a year to forget so far, with sales down 2.5 The 56,000 convenience stores recorded sales growth of 5.4