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Japan’s retail sector faces challenges amid weak consumer confidence

Inside Retail

It all adds up to a nasty bite to the pocketbook of consumers everywhere who are looking to shower one of the worlds favourite romantic gifts on their loved ones. Supermarkets finished the year with 3 per cent sales growth in December, making it +2.7 Convenience stores slumped (-0.9 Consumer confidence is weak and getting worse.

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Three malls with great CX: American Dream, Battersea Power Station, Chadstone

Inside Retail

The consumer-driven experience includes the original control rooms having been fully restored and transformed into an events space and an all-day bar concept, with its original dials and controls on display,” she added. Vulic calls it a lifestyle destination and “one of the best examples of adaptive reuse”.

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Why Filipino mall giant SM Prime remains committed to regional expansion

Inside Retail

The symbiotic retail relationship SM Retail, the retail arm of SM Investments, operates a portfolio of more than 4200 stores across a whole plethora of retail categories that includes department stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and specialty stores. The wet market still reigns supreme for the time being.

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7-Eleven Parent Plans Corporate Restructuring to Sharpen Focus on Convenience Business

Retail TouchPoints

Seven & i Holdings , parent company of 7-Eleven , plans to create a new holding company for its supermarkets, specialty stores and other non-convenience store businesses. The newly named York Holdings Company would consolidate 31 businesses and eventually go public with an IPO. billion , a 1.2% drop from the $70.3

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After 10 years, Japan’s Aeon seems ready to conquer Vietnam’s regions

Inside Retail

A decade after making its debut in Vietnam, Japanese retail giant Aeon is making a move into regional towns, armed with 10 years of data about local consumer behaviour and a renewed commitment to what is now its second-largest international market.

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What Rewe’s hybrid concept says about the future of checkout-free stores

Inside Retail

Back in 2020, Amazon opened its first Amazon Go store in Seattle, introducing consumers to the concept of full-size, cashierless grocery stores. The main advantage for the supermarkets is on the cost side, as it saves on manpower costs. All the payments would be done automatically. Already at it in Singapore.

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Can Coles outperform gyms in the supplements category?

Inside Retail

For supermarkets, at least. And with lockdowns forcing temporary closure of gyms and non-essential retail, supermarket giant Coles is eager to get a slice of the pie. Coles Perform has a cleaner, shorter ingredient list so you know exactly what you’re consuming [only the key beneficial ingredients]. Affordability.