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Sydney to create ‘world-class boulevard’ on George Street

Inside Retail

Sydney is to invest $43.5 million converting the city’s downtown retail destination George Street into what it hopes will become a ‘world-class pedestrian boulevard’. . The project will include new green space and street furniture, wider footpaths, and outdoor dining areas. Already a 9000sqm car-free area is already underway, spanning from the George Street light rail route from Town Hall down to Railway Square.

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StudioAC clads Toronto's second Edition cannabis dispensary in zigzagging grating

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Toronto-based StudioAC has used industrial grating to create faceted walls within the interior of luxury cannabis dispensary Edition. Following the opening of the dispensary's first store in Toronto's downtown Annex neighbourhood last year, the local practice was invited back to create a second, larger store in the St Clair West area of Midtown. Edition's St Clair West location is clad almost entirely in industrial grating.

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Booktopia seals academic book deal with Zookal

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Online book retailer Booktopia has also entered into a partnership with the student portal Zookal, extending its exposure to the lucrative and growing educational book market. The deal comes as Booktopia reveals its academic and corporate book sales for the current financial year to date are running at 30 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period, with sales of $53 million to date.

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Top 20 UK Insurance Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 20 UK Insurance Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking UK Insurance Podcasts CII Radio Insurance Tomorrow (Re)thinking insurance Ataraxia Insurance Broker Podcast Insurance Covered The Insurance Broker Podcast The Practical Protection Podcast Artemis Live - Insurance-linked securities (ILS), catastrophe bonds (cat bonds), reinsurance Insureblocks Insurance Post Podcast Insurance Age World at Law Pet Insurance […].

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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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CommBank helps unlock opportunities for businesses

Inside Retail

An insights tool from CommBank is helping businesses learn more about their customers to improve overall customer experiences. Graham Greenhalgh’s father was a butcher, as was his grandfather and great-grandfather. It stands to reason that Greenhalgh knows a bit about the meat retail business. For more than 30 years, Greenhalgh has worked in customer-facing businesses, one of which ranked among Australia’s biggest wholesale exporters of meat.

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Top 15 Distance Education Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 15 Distance Education Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Distance Education Podcasts Let's Talk eLearning with Dr. LeRoy Hill Lessons from the Field | Austin ISD Professional Learning Distance Learning Innovations Virtually Educated Remote learning Distance Education Perspectives Distance Learning and Technology A teen's guide to distance learning Distance Learning Success Tips Learning Theories […].

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Top 10 Gifted Education Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 10 Gifted Education Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Gifted Education Podcasts Vanguard Gifted Academy The Todd Cast | Teaching Theory into Teaching Practice Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University Perspectives of the Gifted and Talented In the eyes of a gifted teacher Gifted Education by AyeshaUmar Submit Blog Do you want more […].

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Analysis: Is boring large format retail finally over?

Inside Retail

The pandemic has a lot to answer for, but the need for large-format (or big-box) retailers to shake up their business models isn’t one of them, given they were already feeling the winds of change before the world was turned upside down. In 2019, Morgan Stanley found that only three out of 22 Australian big-box retailers experienced sales-per-square-metre growth that exceeded operational costs.

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How to deal with Planning Volatility in Fashion: New Marketing Merchandise Calendar

Fashion Retail

As described in Fashion Goes Tech, my latest book, retail hasn’t changed much in the last century but, over the last 20 years, digitization has drastically transformed the way companies do business and how customers shop. Retail was already facing the digital challenge when Covid-19 unexpectedly forced a shortening of the “adaption deadline” (Fashion Goes … More How to deal with Planning Volatility in Fashion: New Marketing Merchandise Calendar.

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Alibaba fined US$2.75bn for anti-monopoly violations by Chinese regulators

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Chinese regulators have fined Alibaba 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) – around 4 per cent of its revenues in 2019 – for violating anti-monopoly rules and abusing its dominant market position. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said that after an investigation launched in December, it had determined that Alibaba Group had been “abusing market dominance” since 2015 by preventing its merchants from using other online e-commerce platforms.

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Get MACH Ready: Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation

Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Top 5 Autism Forums, Discussions and Message Boards You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 5 Autism Forums Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Autism Forums Reddit » Autism Scope » Autism and Aspergers Submit Blog Do you want more traffic, leads, and sales? Submit your blog below if you want to grow your traffic and revenue. Submit Your Blog Autism Forums View Latest Posts ?Get Bloggers Contacts 1. Reddit […]. The post Top 5 Autism Forums, Discussions and Message Boards You Must Follow in 2021 appeared first on Feedspot Blog.

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Analysis: Get ready, 2021 is the year of retailing bravely

Inside Retail

For the most part, retail stores across the nation are open and trading under a new normal. However, the residual impacts of Covid-19 will still test many of them as people’s euphoria from being released from lockdown starts to wane, and the government measures that have temporarily shielded the Australian consumer from the worst of the economic consequences of Covid decrease.

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Top 20 Stationery Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 20 Stationery Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Stationery Podcasts The Stationery Cafe Stationery Orbit The Pen Addict The Erasable Podcast Fountain Pen and Stationery RSVP Art Supply Posse ' WoWPencils Podcast Stationery Freaks The Nib Section Before the Pen Podcast The Journaling Club The Jenna Rainey Show 2 Guys 0 Planners Fountain Pen […].

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Company directors can’t serve two masters: what went wrong at AusPost

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Shareholder primacy is often said to be the guiding principle of corporations. The idea is that they exist to benefit their shareholders by providing dividends and capital gains, the more the better. Fifty years ago, Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman went as far as to argue that was the only responsibility of companies — to make as much for their shareholders as the law would allow.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & 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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Top 10 Canadian HR Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 10 Canadian HR Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Canadian HR Podcasts HRchat Podcast The Rudner Law Podcast The HR Mentor Insights@work The Harassment Free Workplace Podcast Transformational Leadership with Tanya Chapman The Canadian HR Podcast Submit Blog Do you want more traffic, leads, and sales? Submit your blog below if you want to […].

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What does Deliveroo’s IPO flop say about the economics of food delivery?

Inside Retail

Deliveroo’s listing on the London Stock Exchange last week was supposed to be a feel good story. It was London’s biggest IPO in a decade and it was hoped that the food delivery app would be the first of many major tech listings for the City. Retail investors had also gotten on board, with 70,000 Deliveroo users having bought shares worth £50 million.

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Top 10 Operating System Forums, Discussions and Message Boards You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 10 Operating System Forums Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Operating System Forums Reddit » Operating System Development OSForums.net OSDev.org AnandTech Forums » Operating Systems Guru3d Forum » Operating Systems cPanel Forums » Operating Systems [H]ardForum » Operating Systems Radxa Forum » Operating system distributions Submit Blog Do you want more traffic, leads, and sales?

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How digital helped Domino’s top $3 billion

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Online orders, home delivery and in-store pick up have become fundamental to the running of food and beverage businesses in the last year as consumers navigated the pandemic. For some, it has been a complete disruption. But for Dominos, the writing was on the wall. As part of its long-term business strategy, Domino’s had anticipated a global shift to food ordered online and delivered.

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Forrester Report: Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions

Understanding the intricate world of Point-of-Sale (POS) technology is a common challenge for tech buyers. When it comes to defining the functions of Point-of-Sale systems, the communications have yet to be standardized–—until now. Forrester’s new report, Demystifying The Technical Functions of POS Solutions, breaks through the noise and provides business leaders with the information and tools they need to evaluate the features of POS systems.

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Top 5 Super Mario Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021

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Top 5 Super Mario Podcasts Contents [show] ?About this list & ranking Super Mario Podcasts First to Thirteen | A Super Mario Sunshine Lockout Bingo Podcast 3-Up Moon Podcast All About Super Mario Super Nintendo Mario Super Mario Whoas Submit Blog Do you want more traffic, leads, and sales? Submit your blog below if you want to […]. The post Top 5 Super Mario Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021 appeared first on Feedspot Blog.

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Studio.co.uk Announced as Lead Sponsor of ITV’s In for A Penny

A1 Retail

Online value retailer, Studio.co.uk has been announced as the lead sponsor of ITV’s hugely popular on-the-street game show, In for A Penny. Saturday night television is about to get even more entertaining as Stephen Mulhern returns to screens on 17 April with the hit, family-friendly show which surprises members of the public who then partake in hilariously silly and bonkers games.

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One Door Retires the Paper Planogram and Replaces it with Merchandising Cloud

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(PRESS RELEASE) BOSTON – One Door, a leading provider of cloud-based visual merchandising software, is launching an integrated marketing campaign that brings the traditional retail- merchandising tool, the paper planogram, into the 21st century, according to One Door’s CEO Tom Erskine. One Door’s Merchandising Cloud platform is built for store teams first, transforming the way retailers plan, execute, and analyze their in-store merchandising.

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The Original Factory Shop sets new store opening targets in expansion plans

A1 Retail

Retailer plans 50 new store openings over the next three years. Alistair McGeorge set to rejoin business as chairman. The Original Factory Shop has announced plans to increase its number of stores as it continues with its mission to become the UK’s leading local, value, brand led retailer. The retailer plans to open over 50 new stores over the coming three years – including stores in Whitby, Yorkshire and Frinton-on-Sea, Essex which will open on Monday 12 th April.

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in! Join our panel of experts as they guide you through the challenges of digital transformation, preparing you to avoid common mistakes and make the most of incredib

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FCardoso Launches New Website

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(PRESS RELEASE) FCardoso Strategic Planning-Mexico has launched a new website, www.fcardoso.mx. The new site offers insight into the services provided by FCardoso, showcased through project profiles, team bios, insights and more. FCardoso is dedicated to delivering impeccable services in the areas of architecture, design, construction, manufacturing and more, for all types of commercial spaces including retail and hospitality.

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Smiggle Stores to Reopen Safely on 12th April

A1 Retail

The wait is finally over as 103 Smiggle stores across England and Wales will be reopening their doors on Monday 12th April as lockdown restrictions ease. Smiggle’s remaining stores in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the republic of Ireland will follow suit pending government announcements in the coming weeks. Even better, there are amazing offers across Smiggle’s fashion-forward products.

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Australia Post names Woolworths exec as new CEO

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Australia Post has appointed Paul Graham as its new CEO and managing director five months after former CEO Christina Holgate resigned amid what’s now known as ‘the Cartier controversy’ Graham, who will start in the role in September, joins Australia Post after a tenure at Woolworths Group as chief supply chain officer and an extensive career working in e-commerce.

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Retail Technology Show, the expo to fast forward retail’s revolution, will take place on 26-27 April 2022

A1 Retail

Dynamic and ambitious events business, Nineteen Group , has announced it has added Retail Technology Show 2022 to its portfolio. As a trade show dedicated specifically for the retail technology sector, Retail Technology Show, with its mission to drive the industry forward through innovation, will bring together the brightest minds in retail and future-forward technologies next April.

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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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Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City Confirm Plans for Reopening on 12th April

A1 Retail

UK shopping centres prepare to welcome shoppers back as part of the government’s easing of national lockdown. Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City have confirmed their robust plans to re-open the London centres safely on Monday 12 th April, following the UK government’s announcement that non-essential retail businesses in England can reopen.