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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

This is the message put forward by Wesfarmers’ CEO Rob Scott, and Kmart Group managing director Ian Bailey, to investors last week. Two brands, one model The business announced in July that it would be merging the two department stores’ backends , with the anticipation of increasing efficiencies across the group.

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. A new breed of concept phone store are popping up in a bid to rival tech giants Apple and Samsung. According to managing director of commercial Bridget Lea, the format welcomes in “a new EE” focusing on “fulfilling all our consumer tech needs”.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 275 – DTC with Mickey Drexler

Retail Geek

Because again they weren’t dealing with competitive sales my department store experience was the opposite, if you’re in buying wholesale someone else will put the goods on sale and of course today you know 30 years later plus it’s the standard. [7:35] 7:35] And so I decided when I got to Ann Taylor. [7:39]

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Department stores or apparel stores or malls get back to kind of pretty pandemic levels. Scot: [4:24] So this was a total zero.