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Eat, shop, play, repeat: Behind Central Retail’s winning mall formula

Inside Retail

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail opened the doors to its second eat-shop-play lifestyle centre on the Thai island of Phuket on 6 October. The eat-shop-play moniker is not a bad descriptor. The line of fashion shops can also include a Watsons health and beauty store and a Starbucks.

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Chemist Warehouse founder Jack Gance shares the secrets to success

Inside Retail

“When I went back to the business we had 35 stores, all with different names, which were fundamentally run by the wholesalers who did it for their benefit, not for the benefit of the retailer,” Jack explains. They would promote products that were giving them the biggest margin, but not necessarily the biggest margin for the retailer.

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One to watch: APAC goes all in on social commerce

Inside Retail

In Australia, new payment methods are making online shopping, especially transactions on social media, faster and easier. The ability to buy directly from the Shops tabs has yet to launch on Facebook or Instagram in Australia; currently users are linked to the seller’s website for checkout. Live shopping emerges.

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Here’s an inside look at Tops Club, the Costco of Thailand

Inside Retail

All decked out in its red, white and black livery, Tops Club, a new warehouse format created by Thailand’s Central Retail, opened a flagship at Central Rama 2 shopping mall in the southern suburbs of Bangkok on 28 September. Finally, you can’t shop at Tops Club unless you take out a membership, like Costco. The company made US$6.7

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

Inside Retail

Positioned as a ‘next generation luxury shopping and upscale food and beverage concept’, fashion brands represented on the premium avenue include Dolce & Gabbana, Fendi, Chloe, Jimmy Choo, Emporio Armani and Pucci, building on QDF’s existing collection of high-end brands. a fashion parade. Move over, Changi. Store X is aimed at families.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Mark is an experienced Marketplace seller, and his current business Guardian Baseball is a hybrid seller selling both wholesale and owned brands direct to consumer from a Shopify site, and via multiple marketplaces including Amazon. Matt: [12:03] Who’s at that shop talk conference that they’re involved in.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 258 – Retailer Owned Brands and Other News

Retail Geek

I haven’t had a chance to kind of get a first-hand tour of have the Amazon health system works but. [5:55] Easy for me to say two e-commerce guys talking about health care what could go wrong. 5:55] You know pre-pandemic there was a lot of. Scot: [7:48] Add to cart that’s not my own.