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To Thrive in the New Global Ecommerce Marketplace, Toys ‘R’ Us may Need to Think Small

Retail TouchPoints

A toy shop that gave the world Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and other wonderful creations. Profits at Barbie and Hot Wheels firm Mattel were $126.6 LEGO also reported a strong year with net profit up almost 20% to DKK 9.9 Remember Toys ‘R’ Us? So now what about the ecommerce part of the omnichannel equation?

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Inside Central Chidlom’s luxury makeover in Bangkok

Inside Retail

At the time, it was a unique and unparalleled shopping destination in a city that was a retail backwater, nowhere near as sophisticated in terms of its retail offer as it is today. The bottom line: net profit was up a healthy 14 per cent, to 2.5 Central Chidlom has, for sure, raised its own bar.

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

Inside Retail

The line launched with a pop-up on June 17 at Boon the Shop, a futuristic Shinsegae fashion emporium in Seoul, attracting a huge crowd that snapped up items as fast as they could, some of it quickly resold for a killing online. enjoyed an increase in net profit of nearly 400 percent. Online sales rose by 12.2