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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

Target [also] continued to trade well across its apparel range, but with more challenging results in toys and home, highlighting the opportunity for the division to leverage the strengths of Kmart.” He added that 75 per cent of Target’s range – across apparel, soft home and toy products – will be unique to the brand.

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‘Like a ghost town’: Retailers react to the Omicron wave

Inside Retail

Foot traffic is down in CBDs and shopping centres as consumers return to working from home. We then struggle to get deliveries and stock, as their workers are also in isolation. At some stage, we do need to return to normal, and we must live through the impacts, so we can get to the other side. It goes on and on.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 305 Amazon and Shopify Q1 2023 Earnings

Retail Geek

Scot: [4:43] Macy’s Woodberry Amazon and apparel. 18:58] Ratcheted back their service level a little bit like you’re seeing a lot of people starting to charge more for returns you’re starting to see delivery promises get stretched out a little bit and you know Amazon is kind of.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures. Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

Right I go out of the inventory that’s getting unpacked right now is Home Improvement and apparel that had a like a nice Spike.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 265 – News, retailer earnings, and listener questions.

Retail Geek

Famous Last Words I’ll probably be dead wrong I doubt so anytime you do a merger or an acquisition of this size like you do have to get regulatory approval, I kind of don’t think this is gonna be that tough because Amazon doesn’t have a lot of. [11:09] Jason: [10:36] I mean yeah it is funny to think about but yeah.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 252 – Amazon FBA Roll-ups with Chris Bell CEO of Perch

Retail Geek

People used to record ideas on dead trees and sometimes you need a copy of the dead tree so you could actually make a machine that duplicated the dead tree. And I really you know the rating review moat and the return rate that’s action and MCX that it’s really really important to us because that shows.