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Analysis: How Australian department stores can thrive in a post-Covid world

Inside Retail

Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.

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How Taking Shape is leveraging backend efficiency gains to grow overseas

Inside Retail

Since 2019, it has relaunched its online offering in Australia, rolled out dedicated e-commerce sites and fulfilment centres in New Zealand and the UK, and upgraded its warehouse management and order management systems, leading to significant efficiency gains and growth. The US market could be next on the list. Targeting global growth.

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Three key takeaways from Wesfarmers’ strategy day

Inside Retail

Bunnings tapping into tradie market. Bunnings is looking to improve the customer experience for its trade customers with an expanded range of specialty products, tailored customer service desks in stores, dedicated self-checkout, load-and-go spaces and a fully transactional e-commerce site. Here are three key takeaways.

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Everything you need to know about Amazon’s first physical clothing store

Inside Retail

The first store will open later this year at The Americana at Brand, a shopping centre in Los Angeles, and reportedly be around 30,000 square feet – much smaller than a typical department store, which is around 100,000 square feet. Winners and losers. But whether it can bring the right brands on board remains to be seen.

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Exclusive: Target Australia MD talks turnaround ahead of brand relaunch

Inside Retail

Target’s comparative store sales were up 13 per cent in FY21, according to Pearson, and even more in the kids category, a key area where he sees an opportunity to gain market share. It’s enough to make him “really confident” that the department store is on its way to being a successful business again.

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GIANT Co. opens its fourth Heirloom Market store

Mass Relators

opened its fourth GIANT Heirloom Market on Thursday in Philadelphia’s Fashion District. The new outlet is part of a wave of expansion in the city by GIANT, which opened stores on Columbus Boulevard and in Doylestown earlier this month. president Nicholas Bertram at the opening of the new Heirloom Market store in Philadelphia.

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How personal shopping app Gimme aims to disrupt online delivery

Inside Retail

The alternative is for you to go in-store, but that takes time and effort.”. Gimme aims to offer the best of both worlds: the ease of online shopping and near-instant fulfilment of buying something in-store. . But he expects to see an uptick in orders going through department stores once they reopen.

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