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Rob Scott: ‘Some of our locations may be suitable as vaccination points’

Inside Retail

Retail conglomerate Wesfarmers has reiterated its offer to turn some of its bricks-and-mortar locations into vaccination centres as Australia’s vaccine rollout picks up pace. We’re currently doing half that and don’t have the stocks to catch up for at least another three months,” Bilsborough told Inside Retail.

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New Zealand’s Deadly Ponies to open first Australian store

Inside Retail

The company says Melbourne was chosen as the location of the first store because the brand already has a strong fan base there. Launched in 2005, the brand designs products in New Zealand with the majority of stock produced at its own eco-atelier in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to ensure total transparency over the sourcing and supply of its pieces.

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How pop-ups helped inform Kat the Label’s new flagship store in Melbourne

Inside Retail

From pop-ups to a permanent location. It’s a central location where people can travel here, but there’s also enough eyeballs on it to make it worthwhile from a brand awareness point of view,” Metcalfe said. The brand endeavours to buy dead-stock from larger brands, which it redesigns into its own pieces.

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Retail Assortment Strategies: What Are They & How Do They Work?

Wiser

Too wide and you’ll end up with leftover dead stock. Successful retail assortment strategies will take many different factors into account, such as customer base, location, store capacity, etc. This way you can rely on regular purchases with little worry of retaining dead stock.

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Wireless Power and the Retail Store of Tomorrow

Retail TouchPoints

Replaceable batteries don’t all deplete at the same rate, meaning one shelf may require multiple trips to replace dead batteries at various intervals, and most used ones — three billion, according to the EPA — end up in landfills as toxic e-waste annually.

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Inside the rumoured death of physical stores and other predictions for 2022

Inside Retail

Through Covid, we have seen a vast number of permanent store closures, which has somewhat re-ignited the ‘stores are dead’ debate. Once one becomes popular, we seem to quickly look for a new one and proclaim the old one ‘dead’, even if most of the industry hasn’t caught up. Experiential stores. From CBDs to suburbs.

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Stores underwater, staff displaced: Floods take major toll on Aussie retail

Inside Retail

Queensland-based online homewares retailer The Somewhere Co narrowly escaped losing tens of thousands of dollars in stock last week, thanks to the timely opening of a new warehouse outside the flood zone three days before the rain began. Its head office, located just 200 metres away from the Brisbane River in Newstead, QLD, wasn’t as lucky.