Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Founded in 1985, Taking Shape is the market leader in the plus-size fashion space in Australia and New Zealand, with around 150 bricks-and-mortar stores across the two markets, including about 60 concessions in Myer department stores. The US market could be next on the list. Targeting global growth.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

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.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 1, 2023

As marketing budgets continue to shrink in the face of economic uncertainty, many in the C-suite are trying to find ways to save money while maintaining, or preferably increasing, sales. Ways of working If you’re under pressure to grow revenue through marketing while keeping headcount to a minimum, you’re not alone.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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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Inside Retail

JUNE 2, 2021

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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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

From smart shopping carts and intelligent buying assistants, to dynamic pricing algorithms and inventory tracking systems, retailers will have access to a wealth of powerful tools that enhance their ability to meet customers’ needs and respond quickly to changes in the market. .

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What people think about when they focus on retail innovation is the tech side of the business — next-generation marketing tools, cutting-edge last mile vehicles, frictionless checkout — but there is still plenty of innovation happening in the more foundational strategies of running a retail business. Its Aii of 78.8

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2024

Janice Chia, Managing Director of Ageing Asia, which is staging the Singapore conference, said Singapore’s ageing market potential would reach an estimated US$72 billion by next year. This is good news, particularly for department stores, whose traditional target customer is now getting on in years.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

. “Gen Zalpha is fearless, authentic and wildly creative in the ways they show up, and our brand is a platform that creates space for them to express all sides of themselves,” said Kristin Patrick, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Claire’s in a statement.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

They want to be marketed to with honesty and respect for who they are with pictures they can relate to,” Rebecca Wilson, the founder and CEO of Starts at 60, told Inside Retail. Many marketers think they need to use ‘aspirational images’ but this generation actually wants to see relatable, not aspirational marketing,” she said.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

According to PwC, trust has declined in the past year with only 30 per cent of people saying they have trust in consumer markets compared to 32 per cent the year prior. It’s quite a quandary for brands. To make the most of the upcoming peak trading period, a customer service reboot may be in order.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s not surprising that Amazon has done really well,” Jason Pallant, a senior lecturer in marketing at Swinburne Business School, told Inside Retail. “Many domestic retailers were not strong on digital, especially department stores which offer similar home product ranges,” she told Inside Retail. .

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2023

Frictionless and seamless Professor of marketing and industry consultant at Macquarie University, Jana Bowden cited IBISworld data, explaining that the BNPL sector had experienced sustained revenue growth of about 29.3 per cent over the last five years, and is expected to grow by over eight per cent between 2023-2028.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2022

The thing that I found really interesting about the luxury wellness market [in the US] is that it’s integrated into lifestyle in a big way,” Matt Newell, partner and CEO of The General Store, added. Department stores. “On One category that didn’t make the cut?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“We’ve found a large number of orders going through food stores — more groceries from boutique dealers like your local butcher, rather than the big supermarket chains,” Bartalotta said. . But he expects to see an uptick in orders going through department stores once they reopen.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Without any speculation about the future of shopping in the flesh and the fate of the department store, let us examine why a mobile app is worth the investment, whether or not you also offer an amazing brick-and-mortar experience: The Perks of Push Notifications. Let’s face it, retail has been having a very tough time recently.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

This is the seventh year of the Index , and while the company noted that top-performers “aggressively” rolled out optimized content, frictionless checkout and other cross-channel capabilities, there was a sizeable gap between industry leaders and their peers.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The business had been faltering for some time as it failed to keep up with value rivals B&M, Poundland and Home Bargains, which have all been growing rapidly and stealing its market share. Indeed, Wilko had recorded sales declines in its last four financial years, with revenue falling by 18.6% between 2017/18 and 2021/22.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2022

Australian discount department store Harris Scarfe is moving “full-steam ahead” with its strategic growth plans, despite rising inflation and growing concerns about an economic recession. “We’re We’re full-steam ahead, we’re not battening down the hatches because inflation is going up. Location, location, location.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The food hall in the basement of the David Jones department store on Bourke Street. has evolved quite a bit in that area and other markets are catching up. If visitors aren’t in the mood to sit and dine, they also can quickly venture through the space and shop for the grocery items they need. Photo courtesy of: Shutterstock.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2022

David Jones has unveiled a new luxury menswear offer at its Bourke Street store in Melbourne, bringing 20 new brands, made-to-measure suit-fittings and complimentary styling services to market. The project comes nearly three years after the retailer overhauled its Elizabeth Street flagship in Sydney.

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Retail Insider

MAY 25, 2021

The Great British Exchange offers a route to market for small and artisan British brands through partnerships with the likes of Ocado, John Lewis and Amazon while Street Bees runs focus groups that upend traditional market research procedures in favour of in the moment reaction from consumers. 2020 winner Infarm.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company’s latest business update for the Stock Exchange of Thailand states that The Chalong mall has 17,000sqm of net leasable area, and is anchored by an 8,000sqm Robinson department store. On the ground floor is the large, single-level Robinson department store that caterpillars up one side of the mall.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

First stop — the farmers market to pick up ingredients for a dinner party you are hosting. Next stop — your favorite department store to pick out an outfit for a work trip later in the week. It’s a sunny Saturday morning, a perfect day for running some quick errands. However, device safety cannot be an afterthought.

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Rangeme

MARCH 29, 2022

Ecommerce Statistics for 2022 – Chatbots, Voice, Omni-Channel Marketing. Even after vaccinations, Baby Boomers are the least likely to go in-store more often than other generations at 54%, compared to Gen X (39%), Millennials (44%) and Gen Z (40%). Sainsbury’s c-store adopts Amazon cashierless tech. December 15, 2020.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 30, 2022

“As part of our recently announced Consumer Direct Acceleration strategy, we are doubling down on our approach with Nike Digital and our owned stores, as well as a smaller number of strategic partners who share our vision to create a consistent, connected, and modern shopping experience,” Nike said in a statement.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Liberalisation of labour markets across borders could help, but ultimately it is for companies to raise salaries and terms and conditions of service,” he said. Customers don’t care about the salaries of warehouse workers, cleaners, checkout staff or other people in retail outlets. They just want low prices.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

There have been several innovations in markets where domestic and international travel is permitted. Shoppers will be able to checkout the traditional way, or via self-checkout kiosks, or via a roving staff member’s mobile POS terminal. Online retailers moving into physical stores is no longer new. Move over Changi.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2020

We’ve seen brands follow these guidelines to deliver stunning improvement to their video-based marketing, improving add-to-cart and checkout rates up to 8X in one case, a 500% lift in direct sales conversions in another, and a 15% decrease in drop rates in a third. Then continue to test and iterate to find your brand’s sweet spot. .

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. percent from December so month-over-month, department stores had their first increase in about 15 years and clothing which would has been decimated the last year was up five percent, um but again to me. [7:14]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

Jason visited the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Pea Ridge, Arkansas featuring drone delivery. And so I drove out to Pea Ridge to visit the Walmart neighborhood market. And behind the neighborhood market is a drone center. Here is a video for those interested.

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Retail Geek

JULY 30, 2021

In-store pickup was was much more prominent with like a dedicated area for for Bo p**s pickups in the front of the store you could do self checkout with scan and go using the mobile app and there was a lot of. Sort of a product specific landing page on in their mobile app.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

You know as apparel goes department stores go and his department store just go malls go so you basically had covid knocking down this, series of, of dominoes and yeah it’s it’s going to be pretty rough couple of years for you know I personally doubt that we’re ever going to see.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

BinhWinn: What do you think is keeping Amazon from entering the promising African market? Trevor Sumner: There will be a multi-billion media shift to in-store. Will shopper marketing and trade dollars increase? How will brand orgs need to transform to take advantage of the digitized store? Who controls the brand spend?

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