Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Australian department store David Jones has become the latest retailer to sell pre-owned clothing following the announcement of its partnership with Sydney-based luxury reseller Blue Spinach last week. The post David Jones is the latest department store to embrace resale.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

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Retail Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A challenging consumer environment kept a lid on the department store’s success in the period, but there were some bright spots.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Myer currently operates 56 department stores across Australia, as well as its online business and in-house brands including Sass and Bide, Marcs and David Lawrence. It’s no secret that consumer-facing retail has had a tough year trying to stay price-competitive for customers. million and now account for 21.3

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. The spring and early summer was an optimistic time for many consumers who finally emerged from lockdowns looking to refresh their wardrobes and find items suited for smaller local outings during the warmer months.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2022

A fundamental question about the future of David Jones was put to rest this week, after the retailer’s parent company Woolworths Holdings announced the sale of the department store chain to Australian private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners on Monday. How involved will Anchorage be in the management of David Jones going forward?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Customer experience is almost as important to consumers as the product itself, and the experience of buying a luxury item directly from the designer is an area in which luxury brands are constantly investing. Longchamp manages 325 direct-to-consumer stores through 25 distribution subsidiaries around the world.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the retailer’s establishment in 1858, Macy’s has become one of the most well-known department stores in the US, if not the world. billion acquisition offer from an investor group composed of Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital. Macy’s declined to comment on the offer at the time of this writing.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

It acted as a platform for consumers to interact with and learn about a rotating variety of omnichannel and digitally native brands, by way of QR codes. In doing so, the department store experienced a 1,000 per cent increase in digital sales from 2020 to 2021, CEO and co-founder Matt Alexander said.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2023

Consumers believe that sellers, distributors, and e-commerce stores share responsibility for ensuring product authenticity, with a desire for more ways to verify authenticity and reliable customer service. He said that the pandemic and related lockdowns and movement restrictions were a further blow to physical store operations.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This week, Macy’s announced plans to shut down 150 “underproductive” stores, more than one-fifth of its department store assemblage, over the next three years. Neil Saunders, managing director and retail analyst at GlobalData, believes the store closures are “a necessary step to strip the dead wood from Macy’s”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2022

Department store giant David Jones unveiled the latest Spring/Summer collections this week in its Elizabeth Street flagship in Sydney. The runway featured local and international brands such as Aje, Camilla and Marc, Hugo Boss, P.E. Nation, Carla Zampatti, Matteau, Balmain, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A new range of Forever 21 fashions has debuted at 100 JCPenney stores across the U.S. The move marks the latest bid by the perennially challenged department store chain to turn around, by bolstering its appeal with teens and young adults. JCPenney isn’t Forever 21’s first foray into department stores. and online.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Local governments, planners, place makers, economic development managers, trade associations and retailers work hard to design, improve and revitalise main streets. We wanted to find out what consumers see as their ideal local shopping street. The top ten stores and services in an ideal main street. Utilitarian shoppers did not.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. Designworks’ divisional general manager Brooke Norton told Inside Retail that the brand sells about 15 million units each year and is heading towards $200 million in wholesale sales. Focusing on the consumer.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

L’Occitane purchased Dr Vranjes Firenze in January this year for a reported US$164 million, or approximately 12 times its core earnings, from Bluegum Capital Partners, a European private equity fund that specialises in consumer brands. Its work with premium Australian department store chain David Jones is an example of this.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Depending on the outcome from a month of mail-in voting that ended March 30, approximately 5,800 workers at the facility, BHM1, could gain the right to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store (RWDSU) union. I’ve seen myself the way that Amazon forces workers to manage their own productivity.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2024

Born in France, his first job after university was as a product manager for L’Oréal in Tokyo, where he became fluent in Japanese. It sells both direct-to-consumer through a mix of online and stand-alone stores and via retail partners, including department stores and pharmacies. It is the base of all our innovation.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2024

Executives in this role are caught in a whirlwind of balancing investments with rapidly evolving consumer touch points, staying afloat amidst a sea of trends, strategies and tactics. Managing Bottom-Line Expectations, a Balancing Act for CMOs It’s no secret that CMOs are often in a challenging spot internally as well.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Department store Myer has enjoyed the fruits of a rebounding retail environment in FY21, with total sales up 5.5 The business’ Myer One loyalty program has also been a solid driver of customer spending, and throughout the year Myer hit record levels of customer satisfaction in store and net promotor scores online.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The three will report to Heidi O’Neill, president, consumer, product and brand at Nike. In addition, Dr Muge Erdirik Dogan will join Nike as chief technology officer, effective November 27, to boost the quality of consumer experiences with products, platforms, and services. Dogan’s most recent role was as president of Amazon Fashion.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2024

But while the two executives have much in common – they both had stints at consumer packaged goods giant P&G, which is the reason they “hit it off immediately,” Bergh told Inside Retail – there are bound to be differences with any leadership change. Every part of the experience has to be absolutely spot on for the consumer.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 21, 2023

Featuring the brand’s NextGen store concept, the space was designed to redefine the Indian shopping experience. It’s all about growing the brand’s direct-to-consumer and omnichannel presence in the region. A changing mindset According to Jain, the consumer mindset in India has also undergone a profound evolution.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

After 17 years of running its discount department stores separately, retail conglomerate Wesfarmers announced earlier this week that it would be consolidating the back end operation of Kmart Australia and Target Australia. Kmart Group CEO Ian Bailey said this was due to how difficult it has been to “get tech into Target”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One of the key trends that defined retail in 2023 was pop-up shops and how these experiential shopping experiences have taken hold over millennial and Gen Z consumers. Just this week, American department store chain Nordstrom announced a unique collaboration with the British fashion brand Paul Smith.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

“Last year saw much more awareness brought to new innovations in textile and apparel, particularly on the sustainability front, so this year we’re already seeing lots of development and effort around bringing these innovations to businesses and consumers,” Cintia Nunes, general manager and head of Asia at The Mills Fabrica, told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

The consumer is looking for aspirational product stories and we have a unique opportunity to serve them in this space.”. But given how consumers have become more digitally engaged and environmentally focused, how is Louvet reimagining the brand and the way it shows up in the world? Heritage sometimes isn’t enough ,” Louvet admitted.

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Indigo 9 Digital

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon Over the past decade direct-to-consumer businesses have popped up in nearly every corner of the retail sector. From mattresses sold by Casper to prescription eyeglasses from Warby Parker ambitious founders have taken a page from Amazon’s playbook hoping to sell goods directly to consumers online. million and $58.5

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

Fast-growing Australian online retailer Canningvale plans to relaunch the iconic Singaporean department store Robinsons as an online-only business this month after acquiring the company’s digital assets for an undisclosed sum. Some of the brands have a history with Robinsons, while others are new to the department store. .

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

per cent – retailers might be expecting tough economic conditions, as consumers are expected to cut back. . Customers were spending more on clothing, footwear and personal accessories, department stores and cafes and restaurants in July 2022, compared to the 12 months prior, and consumer sentiment was also up, by 3.9

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2021

And this spring, it will unveil a new global design concept through its latest retail partnership with Australian department store, David Jones. “We While Australian consumers can already buy these items from Skims’ global e-commerce site, this will be the first time they can touch or try on items before purchasing.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Beloved New York City off-price department store Century 21 has partnered with logistics provider Fillogic ahead of its spring 2023 relaunch. The NYC-headquartered Fillogic will support the retailer through ecommerce and store-based fulfillment, reverse logistics and returns, forward-staging of inventory and final-mile delivery.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said there were 210 department stores in Japan at the end of 2019 but attrition in the ensuing three years reduced that number to just 192 by the end of 2022. Both the Takashimaya and Tokyu stores were luxury-focused, and had been a fixture of their neighbourhoods for decades.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2023

With customers continuing to seek more value as cost-of-living pressures bite, Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group is set to benefit from shifting consumer demand, and an increasingly strong value proposition. This is the message put forward by Wesfarmers’ CEO Rob Scott, and Kmart Group managing director Ian Bailey, to investors last week.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The country’s growing economy and expanding middle class have created a favourable environment for global brands to set up shop and tap into a new consumer base. billion Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) shipments by 2030. In recent years, India has emerged as a major market for luxury brands.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

Anchorage struck gold with the $20 million acquisition of the Dick Smith consumer electronics chain from Woolworths Group in November 2012. Woolworths had written off more than $420 million restructuring the business, which was Australia’s largest consumer electronics chain by store count. No more balance sheet shuffle .

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