Sun.Dec 19, 2021

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McDonald’s Yagoona store reopens, 50 years since first restaurant unveiled

Inside Retail

McDonald’s reopens its first Australian store with a flashback to the 1970s. It was the Yagoona outlet in Sydney that brought the Golden Arches to these shores and on Friday 17 December, the memory of those days was revived with limited time retro pricing on the menu. Celebrating 50 years since the very first Macca’s opened its doors in December 1971, the new McDonald’s Yagoona reduced the Hamburger to its original 20 cents for two hours.

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Fresh produce takes centre stage in Notting Hill's Spring-To-Go farm shop

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Australian chef Skye Gyngell has teamed up with her sister, designer Briony Fitzgerald, to create a deli version of her restaurant Spring, which is centred around a huge display of fruit and vegetables. Located in London's Notting Hill, Spring-To-Go is a shop where customers can buy seasonal produce and order restaurant-quality meals for home delivery.

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Fashion label Nude Lucy goes DTC: Inside the brand’s new strategy

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After 10 years of building its brand through retailers like David Jones and The Iconic, Australian women’s fashion label Nude Lucy is going direct-to-consumer with the launch of its own bricks-and-mortar stores and further investment in its online business. The first permanent Nude Lucy location opened at Pacific Fair shopping centre on the Gold Coast this month.

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Electric Car Maker Polestar Eyes 38 Physical Locations in U.S. by 2023

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Electric vehicle manufacturer Polestar (Gothenburg, Sweden) has opened a new retail location in Corte Madera, CA where it will offer sales, service and test drives of its cars. The brand, which calls its physical locations Polestar Spaces, currently operates in 15 states. The company is aiming to grow its footprint to a total of 38 retail locations across the country by the end of 2022.

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From Data to Decisions: Maximizing Retail Potential with AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and guest speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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Alibaba looks abroad as China growth slows

Inside Retail

China’s Alibaba has told its investors that overseas e-commerce would be a key focus as it looks for new sources of growth after a difficult year at home. Earlier this month, Alibaba Group Holding restructured its e-commerce business into separate China and international divisions, with the latter to be led by Jiang Fan, head of Alibaba’s flagship Taobao and Tmall marketplaces.

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Why luxury brands are bowing down to resale

Inside Retail

No one could’ve expected a small community-led resale app to be one of the top shopping apps in the world, yet Depop is now worth US$1.62 billion and was acquired by Etsy in July earlier this year. Gen Z’s go-to for the secondhand market, you can find just about anything on Depop. The same profile selling a lightly used Dior bag is also selling a thirty dollar tank top.

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Welcome to the glittering new world of Swarovski

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After 126 years since it launched in Austria, crystal giant Swarovski underwent a major global transformation this year, which saw the unveiling of 28 Instant Wonder stores in 28 stores around the globe, from Milan and Paris to New York and Sydney. Inside the Bondi flagship store in Sydney. The brand’s former signature royal blue colour palette and jewellery stands were replaced with a candy-like “dreamscape”, filled with walls of jewel-coloured boxes, holding a spectrum of accessories, jeweller

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China’s Alibaba pledges carbon neutrality by 2030

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Alibaba Group will aim to achieve carbon neutrality in its own operations and slash emissions across its supply chains and transportation networks by the end of the decade, the Chinese e-commerce giant pledged on Friday. Alibaba promised to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 in its own direct emissions – known as “scope 1” – as well as its indirect “scope 2” emissions – derived from the consumption of electricity or heating.

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Nappies, hip-hop and millennial CEO goals: A chat with Djordje Dikic, Tint

Inside Retail

Tint founder Djordje Dikic is on a mission to transform the way Australians buy paint by stripping it back to a simple and enjoyable online experience. We chat with the millennial CEO about why he named the paints in his business after hip-hop songs and how he turned his business into a lifestyle brand. Inside Retail: What does your ideal day look like?

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Forget productivity. How resilient is your team?

Inside Retail

Resilience is overtaking productivity as the most important metric for measuring success in 2022. Gaps in resilience have left many industries exposed. Supply chains have focused too much on efficiency and optimisation, and haven’t been able to flex to changes in consumer behaviour, causing widespread delays. In essential sectors such as childcare, recent skills shortages make balancing compliance with the needs of employees increasingly difficult.

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The Personalization Playbook: 2024 Strategies

Did you know—74% of IT leaders are looking to improve their tech stack to offer better personalization? It’s impossible to ignore the importance of personalization, but it comes with challenges. How do you do it with a tight budget? What about customer privacy and the use of data? The Personalization Playbook is packed with research and insights from Orium, Talon.One, and Bloomreach and gives IT leaders answers to these tough questions, helping them shape 2024 strategies for personalization.

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‘The next big disruptor’: Why the ARA is urging action on climate change

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The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) recently released a first-of-its-kind roadmap to help businesses reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Six months in the making, the roadmap comes one month after the end of COP26, where the world’s nations discussed the drastic actions they need to take to prevent the worst impacts of climate change from occurring.