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Retail trends post-pandemic: mobile payments entering the mainstream as normality approaches

Retail Times

Having spent hundreds of millions of pounds on protective measures during the height of the pandemic, it has been reported that retail chiefs are in discussions over the logistics of removing plastic screens from supermarkets.

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What Aussie retailers can learn from their counterparts in the UK, Europe

Inside Retail

Retail trends tend to surface in the UK and Europe about 12-24 months before they reach Australia. On the ground, I can report that there are challenges facing UK and European retailers that savvy Australian retailers can learn from to plan ahead. I witnessed one supermarket with a joint of lamb locked in a Perspex box.

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Grocery Retailers Take Notice of the Single-Use Plastic Problem

Rangeme

offers a Ditch the Disposables program in its deli, through GO Box , a circular system through which customers take food in reusable containers and return them for washing. In March, Greenpeace USA ranked major American supermarkets on their efforts to reduce plastic. Supermarkets can be leaders. Pittsburgh, Pa.-based

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7 Ways Amazon is Expanding Offline

Indigo 9 Digital

If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. Amazon Fresh Supermarket. Amazon opened its first Amazon Fresh supermarket in Los Angeles in 2020. Amazon Fresh supermarkets are 35,000 sq. Do you like this content?

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New Bird Flu Causes Worldwide Supply Chain Disruption

Rangeme

Moreover, beyond the impact on human health, the bird flu pandemic is causing real problems for the poultry industry and its customers, from supermarkets to the restaurant trade. producers have warned that if supermarkets don’t begin paying more for their eggs, many of them are likely to go bust. In February, the U.K.-based

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6 of the Top Reasons Online Businesses Fail

Indigo 9 Digital

An innovative idea and a slick website might get customers excited but many founders eventually realize it’s actually pretty hard and expensive to acquire customers when you don’t have any retail stores. And when your customers demand free shipping or when return costs add up a promising business can be put into jeopardy pretty quickly.

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Understanding Hidden Costs and Fees When Working with Retailers

Rangeme

For suppliers working with retailers for the first time, the costs and charges they face can come as a nasty surprise. found that supermarkets make as much as a third of their profits each year from the fees they charge their suppliers. Returns fees. One recent study in the U.K.