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UK retail sales beat expectations driven by strong tech demand

Retail Gazette

Technology and telecommunication retailers saw sales surge by more than a third, buoyed by new product launches, including Apple’s new iPhone 16, which helped partially offset a 2.4% decrease in supermarkets. Computers and telecoms stores grew strongly but were partly offset by falls in supermarkets. in September. in September.

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Mastercard is getting rid of credit card numbers. Cards themselves may be next

Inside Retail

While strengthening the security attached to credit cards, removing numbers shifts the vulnerability to mobile phones and telecommunication providers. This technology is available at more than 70 Amazon-owned stores, and at more than 85 third-party locations across the US, UK, and Australia.

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Walmart, Starbucks, Nike: Making sense of China’s latest retail sales numbers

Inside Retail

At the Pang Dong Lai supermarket chain, based in Chinas north-central Henan Province, both customers and employees are treated like royalty. The official numbers for Chinas retail sales, reported just last week by the governments National Statistics Bureau (NSB), have year-on-year growth for 2024 coming in at 3.7

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Bunnings, Kmart, Aldi are Australia’s most-trusted brands

Inside Retail

Nike entered the top 20 for the first time, at 16th. Bunnings is the only ‘survivor’ from the top rankings of a year ago, in third at the time behind then most trusted brands Woolworths and Coles. Telecommunications company Optus is once again the most distrusted brand, with Qantas in second place and Facebook/Meta in third.

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Will massive fines for grocers who exploit suppliers work?

Inside Retail

Suppliers of food and other products have been complaining for years about their treatment at the hands of Woolworths, Coles and Australia’s other big supermarket chains, although rarely to the supermarkets themselves – perhaps, as suggested in a recent Four Corners program, because they feared retribution.

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Retail sales rise in September for third consecutive month, ONS figures show

Retail Times

Computers and telecommunications retailers grew strongly but were partly offset by decreases in supermarkets. Looking at the quarter, sales volumes rose by 1.9% Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have risen by 0.3% in September 2024, following a rise of 1.0% in August 2024.

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Inflection Points are the Catalysts for Innovation

Cisco Retail

Similar moments exist at the macro level, and these events change the course of our collective path. IT organizations across the globe did not escape these challenges and, in fact, found themselves at the center of solutioning for them. Out of sheer necessity, the tempo of transformation picked up at an unbelievable pace.