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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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Is the DTC business model dead, or just evolving?

Inside Retail

Like many trends, the discourse around DTC is a rollercoaster, ranging from ‘DTC is dead!’ Analyzing over 80 different rigorous peer-reviewed studies on DTC, we discovered a few common insights that prove the DTC model isn’t dead, it’s just evolving and, in fact, it could still be a great way for smaller brands to build customer engagement.

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Sephora CEO Guillaume Motte shares his four ingredients for success 

Inside Retail

Product curation When it comes to stocking products, Motte said it’s about curating brands, not having the broadest assortment. “We Sometimes I hear retail is dead, and you know what, boring retail is, that’s for sure. We grew twice to six times faster than the prestige beauty market in most geographies,” he said.

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Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opens pop-up on Savile Row

Retail Focus

Now the brand is opening its second location at the home of bespoke tailoring, Savile Row. What’s more, his clothing line is crafted using either 100% renewable energy, sustainably sourced cloth or dead stock. For Marcel Rordrigues, the process of hat making is just as important, if not more so than the final product.

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The Party People aims to revamp the shopping experience with AR mirror

Inside Retail

This mirror doesn’t sit inside the store, it will be in its own pop-up location or on a wall. It can be used as its own pop-up store, on dead space like a wall, in a shop window that’s closed for some literal window shopping, or even on a store under construction so people can interact or shop with a brand before it opens.”

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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.