Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Retail sales surged by 6.4 per cent in January, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today. Sales of clothing, footwear and personal accessories also recorded a 7 per cent year-on-year increase, while sales by restaurants, cafes and takeaway services rose by 6.2 per cent, and of household goods by 5.9 per cent. Food retailing recorded the largest monthly increase since last July, up by 4.5 per cent in January. .

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If there is one thing that almost all retailers have in common, it is surfaces. No matter what sort of environment you are working in, you will almost certainly have some sort of surface space at your disposal. However, these spaces can often be underutilised by retailers as they focus their attention elsewhere in the store or shop. Walls are left painted white, countertops blank and floors are scuffed and dirty, but with a few simple, often cost-effective changes to these surfaces, you can comp

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

What do you want to be when you grow up? If you’re a brand currently selling via FBA on Amazon, the answer is probably: a lot bigger. While running a company out of your living room can be a lot of fun initially, the end goal for most entrepreneurs is to build a well-established, well-recognized organization. If you own a brand, you have plenty of options for growth.

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Mike Anthony

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I recently conducted a poll on LinkedIN asking how best to organize products on a shelf. The results were interesting, with the vast majority of respondents suggesting that the merchandising layout should follow the Shopper Decision Tree. And at one level, that makes sense. But there are some significant issues with this approach. Shopper Decision Trees are an important source of shopper insight , but like most data, it is only a guide.

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Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Tokinomo

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Brick and mortar retail has grown a lot in the past few years. It adopted various technologies to keep up with the demands of shoppers, but it still relies on some traditional tools and solutions for product promotion.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Walmart is debuting spring collections designed by Brandon Maxwell under its Free Assembly and Scoop brands. The retailer is looking to raise its fashion profile and drive higher margin purchases to balance the 60 percent of its business connected to grocery sales.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

US-based sports retailer Lids has opened its first four European stores – adding 234 sqm to its UK footprint. The launch forms part of a wider plan to increase the brand’s international presence, representing the first of many physical stores planned across the continent. The vision for the initial quartet of retail outlets has been brought to life by commercial interiors specialist Agilité Solutions – which completed the fit-out of shops in Covent Garden and the 02 Peninsula Square in London, L

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Three years ago, electronics were by far the top product category that consumers bought online, but new research from Feedvisor shows the impact of consumers becoming more comfortable shopping online and new tools emerging to enhance the digital shopping experience. In a survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers, Feedvisor found that 60% of consumers make their most online purchases in the Clothing, Shoes and Jewelry category (#1), while 49% of consumers purchase the most in the Beauty and Personal Care ca

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Security posture management challenges are driven by the growing attack surface. Organizations have accelerated cloud computing initiatives and have been forced to support a growing population of remote users as a result of the pandemic. Firms are also deploying new types of devices as part of digital transformation initiatives, further exacerbating the growing attack surface, leading to management challenges, vulnerabilities, and potential system compromises.

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Tokinomo

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The retail industry is ever-changing and the demands of the customers are increasing as we speak. Actually, during the pandemic, 75% of customers mentioned that they changed the brands they bought. This shows that shoppers are no longer holding on to a brand if it doesn’t satisfy their needs and wants. The same goes for any store or eCommerce platform.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Sellers on Amazon.com’s marketplace account for 25 percent of the total U.S. market share of e-commerce spending and 60 percent of the platform’s total sales, according to eMarketer. Amazon’s direct sales represent another 17 percent of the market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your on-site search bar is one of the most popular ways for customers to find what they are looking for on your site. It also offers conversion rates 1.8x higher than browsing alone! However, most e-commerce businesses treat search as an infrastructure cost like web hosting. Friends, retailers, countrymen… lend me your ears… if there’s one myth to dispel, it’s that search is “just another website feature” or “sunk cost.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

High street bakery chain Greggs is to launch “Tasty by Greggs” cafe in Primark Birmingham opening on February 12. Both brands revealed the new partnership which is to include a fashion collection in a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Primark. A limited-edition range of 11 clothing items will go on sale in 60 Primark stores from February 19. The announcement follows shoppers spotting fashion mannequins at a number of Primark stores holding Greggs sausage rolls and steak bakes in window displa

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The NFT space is heating up, and brands across the retail realm are eager to show their innovation in the quickly blossoming category. Just look at the Super Bowl’s roster of advertisers for a small sampling of the diverse brands diving head-first into the metaverse. As demand on the brand side increases, so does demand on the creator side. That’s why firms like Panoramic Ventures are focusing on investing in companies that support the acceleration of the NFT and blockchain market.

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Digital experiences dominate our professional and personal lives. There were nearly 1,500 digital data interactions per connected user per day in 2020, and that number is expected to more than triple to nearly 5,000 per day by 2025. 1 Applications have become a way of life in our increasingly digitally connected world. . On the personal front, we rely on apps to manage our finances, get us from A to B through online rideshares, ease our mental wellbeing through meditation and motivational apps

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Recent strides in the efficacy of AI, the adoption of IoT devices and the power of edge computing have come together to unlock the power of edge AI. This has opened new opportunities for edge AI that were previously unimaginable — from helping radiologists identify pathologies in the hospital , to driving cars down the freeway , to helping us pollinate plants.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy SE has increased prices on its handbags between six and seven percent overall with the belief that it will not negatively affect purchasing. “We have an advantage on quite a few other companies and groups, which is that we have a degree of flexibility on our prices,” said Bernard Arnault, LVMH’s chairman and CEO. “In the face of inflation, we have the ways and means to react.”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Global restaurant chain KFC launches its first drone-delivery service, partnering with Wing, to deliver hot food direct to homes and workplaces in Logan, Queensland. . The drone-delivery service will be available to a small number of households in the South East Queensland suburbs of Kingston, Logan Central, Slacks Creek, Underwood, and Woodridge, and will gradually expand to include other nearby locations.

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Shaftesbury announces the opening of NICCE’S flagship store on Carnaby Street. The 1,400 sq ft store spans two floors and opens in Spring. It will be located on the corner of Carnaby Street and Beak Street at 57 Carnaby Street. The store will be the first physical flagship store for the London based brand. Samantha Bain-Mollison, Retail Director Shaftesbury says: “We are happy to announce that NICCE will open their first physical flagship store on Carnaby Street in such a prime location un

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. With the new additions, Aldi is on track to edge out Albertsons as the third-largest grocer in the U.S. by store count. Louisiana will become the retailer’s 38 th state of operation when it opens its new store in Lafayette on Feb. 10, 2022.

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Cisco Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We’ve all heard the phrases: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; failing to plan is planning to fail. But sometimes even the best plans fall short when attackers come calling on your enterprise. Helmuth von Moltke was famously quoted as saying, “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.”.

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Nvidia

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Guinness World Records this week presented a Stanford University-led research team with the first record for fastest DNA sequencing technique — a benchmark set using a workflow sped up by AI and accelerated computing. Achieved in five hours and two minutes, the DNA sequencing record can allow clinicians to take a blood draw from a critical-care patient and reach a genetic disorder diagnosis the same day.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Johnson & Johnson will argue in court that it should be able to pursue bankruptcy for its talc unit to resolve 38,000 claims against the company and its products.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With Omicron waning out, Melbourne CBD is launching an additional 20 new stores in the coming months in order to revive its retail wing. This comes after last year’s expansion which added 20 new stores to the precinct. Melbourne Central is home to 12 international renowned flagships: with the highly anticipated Lego store, the largest in the southern hemisphere, set to open in the coming months. .

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ikea opens its first city centre store in the UK today with the company’s boss saying he hopes it will mean shoppers come to the retailer more often. Customers will be able to buy home accessories and soft furnishings at the new site in Hammersmith, west London, but they will also be able to see entire room sets and order beds, wardrobes and bookshelves for home deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Inflation, product shortages and economic uncertainty are on everyone’s mind, from the White House to your house. Even for an industry that has been characterized by change over the past two years, it feels like grocery — and especially digital grocery — is poised to experience upheaval in the coming 12 months. So what changes should we expect to see in 2022?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Part 4 of the 6-part Future of Work Networking Series : Reimagine IoT and Smart Buildings. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technologies (OT) in Smart Buildings are essential to make hybrid work safer and better for people and better for the planet. The importance of environmental sustainability continues to increase as a growing percentage of consumers rate how “green” organizations are as a factor in whether they want to work for them or buy products from them.

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Retail Dive

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

When almost anything can be considered wellness, retailers have plenty of room to expand. Here's how the concept is changing what we define as beauty.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Research shows that productivity doesn’t suffer when the work week is cut from five days to four. Countries and companies are now seriously moving in this direction, adding to workers’ calls for more to follow this workweek path.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The Cheesecake Shop is to have new owners. Aussie based investment River Capital has entered into an agreement to acquire The Cheesecake Shop Group (TCS) for an undisclosed amount from existing owners PAG Asia Capital. The existing TCS management team has retained a shareholding in the business, ensuring a smooth transition and continuity of operation.

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