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Meet the Aussie pet accessories business with 14-carat leads starting at $550

Inside Retail

Last week, PetO, Australia’s largest independently owned pet specialty store, acquired 41 retail stores and 25 vet clinics from the Woolworths Group’s Petstock banner, after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a court-enforced divesture notice to Petstock and Woolworths citing anti-competitive behaviour in the market.

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Why Retailer Market Fit Is Important For A Product Startup

Retail Bound

Most startup brands don’t spend enough time thinking about retail alignment and in the process miss valuable market opportunities, or even worse, get opportunities that nearly bankrupt their company. Good retail alignment means you’ve mapped out retailers and channels that are ideal for you at different stages of your company’s growth.

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. If you own a retail store or are considering shop ideas for a new one, take a look at the stats below. Retail Statistics: The Big Picture. Physical Stores.

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Off-Price Retail: A Double-Edged Tool For Brands With Excess Inventory Needs

Retail TouchPoints

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. In turn, brands should view their affiliation with off-price retailers as opportunistic partnerships.

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The lowdown on Central Group – reported new owner of Selfridges

Inside Retail

The other two being Siam Piwat and The Mall Group,” Michael Baker, a retail expert based in Bangkok and former head of research for International Council for Shopping Centers, told Inside Retail. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand. What does it mean for the future of Selfridges?

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How Korea’s big 3 department stores are killing it right now

Inside Retail

The big winners over the past three years are e-commerce retailers, whose sales are up a whopping 51.6 Market share of retail attributable to e-commerce has risen from 16.9 For department stores specifically, sales were up 16.7 Department stores have enjoyed a slight increase in market share, from 6.6

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Walmart depart Japan – What Went Wrong?

Nelson Blackley

With a population of 127 million, an extremely high per capita income and still one of the world’s largest economies, Japan has been an attractive overseas market for retailers since the 1990’s. However, Walmart has now become the latest foreign retailer to retreat from Japan. Walmart Inc. and Rakuten Inc. billion yen ($1.6