Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Australia Post managed to deliver 52 million parcels through December last year despite high parcel volumes all through October and November. In one of the busiest periods of the year, Australia Post managed to move 556 tonnes of parcels, which is 13 per cent higher compared to the previous year, and used 25 dedicated freight carriers transporting cargo across the country.

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Retail Dive

JANUARY 23, 2022

Read on for 5 ways to increase eCommerce revenue, from offering alternative payment methods to enabling fraud detention and offering promo codes.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Australian specialty retailer Dusk, has reported poor sales based on unaudited management accounts for the first half of the financial year. In a trading update, the company said sales fell 12 per cent to $80 million compared to $90.9 million in the first half of FY21 and $59.6 million in the first half of FY20. On the other hand, online sales were up 4.3 per cent contributing 9.3 per cent of total sales.

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Cisco Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

For the fourth UNESCO International Day of Education , the theme “Changing Course, Transforming Education” addresses three main issues: Our relationships with each other; with nature; and with technology. The global report that informs the theme of this year’s Day of Education, Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education , highlights issues that Cisco Networking Academy has addressed since its inception.

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Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. But, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business opened its doors to direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales to buoy the market through periods of empty supermarket shelves. Now it’s unlikely to turn its D2C offering off.

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Retail Insider

JANUARY 23, 2022

Welcome to the latest column within our broader sustainability section, which focuses on what fashion retailing is doing to address the issues in its industry. This month’s column asks if rationing how much your customers can buy could ever be a good idea. Brought to you by Retail Insider with Clipper and Give Back Box. If you have trouble defining your different marketing generations and regularly confuse your Silent Generation with your Generation Alpha then for the purposes of this column

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 23, 2022

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Meijer is expanding its third Supplier Diversity event to include diverse-owned service providers, as well as retail-ready products for its shelves. The March 29-31 event will give diverse-owned businesses nationwide the opportunity to showcase their offerings for interested Meijer buyers and procurement teams. “Our supplier diversity efforts reach beyond just the brands customers see on our shelves,” said Peter Whitsett, Meijer Executive Vice President of Merchandising and

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

It’s official: Amazon is opening a physical clothing store. The e-commerce pioneer shared details of its new bricks-and-mortar concept, called Amazon Style, in a company blog post last week. According to the post, Amazon Style will offer women’s and men’s apparel, shoes and accessories from hundreds of popular and emerging brands, and include several innovative features, such as tailored, real-time recommendations.

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VMS

JANUARY 23, 2022

Wilson Sporting Goods (Chicago) is continuing its expansion into physical retail with the opening of its first flagship store, a 6400-square-foot space located in New York City’s SoHo district. The flagship’s main attraction is the Thomas E. Wilson Park, an indoor atrium space that allows shoppers to test the store’s offerings by hitting tennis balls, playing catch, shooting hoops and more.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

The beauty industry had quite the rebound last year. After mask mandates put a screeching halt to makeup sales, other sectors, like comforting fragrances and skincare to battle mask-related acne, kept the industry alive in the pandemic. But as we continued to adapt to the ‘new normal’, makeup sales slowly crept back. NPD reports that sales in Q3 of 2021 were up by 24 per cent, compared with the same time last year.

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Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Australian Day barbecues are under threat as Omicron infections continue to cripple meat-processing operations. Most off the menu are chicken dishes. Australia’s biggest poultry processor Ingham’s (with a 40% market share ) has had to stop producing some items and curtail production of others. It’s affecting clients such as KFC , and supermarket meat shelves are largely bare.

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