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

Inside Retail

The line of fashion shops can also include a Watsons health and beauty store and a Starbucks. It has a small number of self-service checkouts but like most Thai supermarkets, still leans heavily on the traditional staffed checkouts.

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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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Wesfarmers’ API takeover: Growth drug or poison pill?

Inside Retail

An earlier 1990s grocery venture with Australian Independent Wholesalers didn’t help either. There are already some disgruntled pharmacists in the Priceline franchise system; there was pushback from those pharmacists over a Sigma merger, let alone one from an external corporate with no pharmacy or health-sector experience.

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

Inside Retail

Retail brand concessions include Sunglass Hut; electronics and audio specialist Brookstone; Lego; cosmetics and skincare from Burt’s Bees, Sally Hansen, L’Oreal and Covergirl; as well as retailers representing the health and wellness devices, travel bags, stationery, socks and underwear, and leather goods categories.

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

Inside Retail

There are other obvious similarities: Tops Club is both a retailer and a wholesaler (a format often referred to as ‘cash and carry’ in Asia). The cavernous warehouse, with its concrete floor and wooden pallets of merchandise piled up high, quickly brings to mind another club format, Costco.

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One to watch: APAC goes all in on social commerce

Inside Retail

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. The hub features 11 studio spaces, each catering to a specific product category, such as beauty and haircare demonstrations, and live cooking stations.

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RangeMe offering direct purchasing capabilities

Mass Relators

This has created the world’s largest wholesale marketplace for retailers by the sheer volume of buyers and suppliers already using RangeMe for product discovery. SAN FRANCISCO – RangeMe has expanded its industry-standard service offering by giving U.S. retail buyers the ability to now purchase products directly from suppliers.