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Rob Scott: ‘Some of our locations may be suitable as vaccination points’

Inside Retail

Retail conglomerate Wesfarmers has reiterated its offer to turn some of its bricks-and-mortar locations into vaccination centres as Australia’s vaccine rollout picks up pace. The Commonwealth will work with the business community about that particular message,” Frydenberg said at a press conference on Tuesday.

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New Zealand’s Deadly Ponies to open first Australian store

Inside Retail

The company says Melbourne was chosen as the location of the first store because the brand already has a strong fan base there. We’ve created an interior handwriting for our spaces, linking them together but also creating new developments for each store that we introduce,” said Liam Bowden, creative director at Deadly Ponies. .

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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ to ‘Look at this amazing DTC brand! But first, let’s take a look at the history of DTC and why it became so popular. Is DTC dead? Everyone should do this.’ The truth, as is often the case, likely falls somewhere in the middle.

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Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opens pop-up on Savile Row

Retail Focus

Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opened a pop-up shop at 20 Savile Row on Thursday 12 October. Founder Marcel Steyn started his career as an apprentice at Cad & The Dandy on Savile Row in 2008 where he learned the art of tailoring. Now the brand is opening its second location at the home of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row.

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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

As part of LVMH’s selective retailing division, Sephora doesn’t typically break out its results but global president and chief executive Guillaume Motte recently shared an overview of the retailer’s global growth in his keynote speech at the World Retail Congress in Paris. China was at an outlier at 2 per cent. We donated 1.7

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The Party People aims to revamp the shopping experience with AR mirror

Inside Retail

This mirror doesn’t sit inside the store, it will be in its own pop-up location or on a wall. It can be used as its own pop-up store, on dead space like a wall, in a shop window that’s closed for some literal window shopping, or even on a store under construction so people can interact or shop with a brand before it opens.”

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How Improving Markdowns Will Impact Your Most Important Supply Chain KPIs

Retail TouchPoints

At the same time, it’s also important to ensure the retailer doesn’t have excess inventory clogging up stores and distribution centers past the planned deletion date, tying up both capital and space in inventory that’s effectively “dead.”.

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