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Ikea Australia lets customers buy second-life products

Inside Retail

Ikea Australia has launched an online platform allowing customers to browse and reserve second-life Ikea furniture and homeware products. A new ‘ As-Is Online ’ section on the Ikea website lets customers access discontinued items, used showroom display items as well as pre-loved goods returned through the business’ Buy Back service. Once reserved online, customers can make the purchase by visiting their selected store’s As-Is area, located near the checkout area.

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11 Challenging Aspects of Being a Small-Business Owner (and Why It’s Worth It)

Small Biz Trends

Owning a business is one of the most challenging endeavors a person can take on, and owning a small business is no exception. From strategizing to delegating and everything in between, there are many difficulties that small-business owners face, yet most of them would say that it’s all worth it in the end. To offer their thoughts on why facing such trials and tribulations is worth it, a panel of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) members answered the following question: “What would you

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Australia’s Venroy opens its first store in Europe

Inside Retail

Australian fashion label Venroy has launched its first store abroad – in Italy’s Ise of Capri – the first step in an international expansion plan. The Mediterranean island store was designed by in-house architect Sarah l’Anson. Venroy says its new store in Europe is the brand’s most important expansion to date and embodies its hotel idea by using carefully chosen furnishings and works of art to exhibit merchandise.

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How Does Generation Z Respond to Brands?

Small Biz Trends

Described as ‘the most disruptive generation’, Generation Z is already on course to overtake the earnings of Millennials by 2031. This makes the generation born between 1995 and 2010 a highly sought-after demographic for businesses looking to maintain growth over the next few years. How Does Generation Z Respond to Brands? With Gen Z currently between the ages of around 10 to early 20s, they account for 2 billion of the world’s population.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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There’s $1 trillion of untapped potential in resale: Vestiaire Collective CEO

Inside Retail

It’s no secret that consumer interest in resale has risen In the past few years, particularly as major brands from H&M to Burberry have expressed an interest in entering the category. In fact, last year, Gucci parent Kering announced its investment into luxury resale online marketplace Vestiaire Collective, catapulting the company into unicorn status.

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You Must Fix Your Shop Floor. Here’s How.

Global Shop

Drop your costs. Up your profits. Maximize your ROI. There’s a reason the most successful and profitable manufacturers use ERP software: it’s all about the ROI. And the bigger and faster the ROI, the better. But where do you start? You’re beyond busy…filling customer orders, managing equipment maintenance, scheduling and managing employees, controlling costs, maintaining on-time delivery, improving quality control, working to meet revenue goals and more.

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How do you make a biodegradable jacket? Kathmandu tells all

Inside Retail

After more than four years in development, Kathmandu’s biodegradable jacket, NXT-Level BioDown, launched earlier this year, and last month it received a coveted ISPO Award at the outdoor and sports industry’s leading international trade fair. We spoke to Kathmandu’s head of product innovation and sustainability, Manu Rastogi, about the process of developing the jacket and how it will help the company achieve its goal of 100 per cent circularity by 2025. .

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Meet the Southeast Asian tech-enabled cafe chain out to conquer the world

Inside Retail

Launched at the time when Asia’s coffee industry was caught in the first Covid-19 wave, Southeast Asia’s Flash Coffee saw a gap at the affordable end of the cafe market for a tech-driven solution catering to busy coffee connoisseurs. Whether the striking yellow and pink store colour scheme appeals to customers or not, it certainly leaves an indelible impression on anyone who has seen it.

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