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Japan’s retail sector faces challenges amid weak consumer confidence

Inside Retail

per cent, a return to more normal historical trends after a 5.6 Unlike the narrow department store sector, the second half performance did not see a material decline in growth because the broader set of retailers for the most part are not so dependent on tourism. per cent compared with the same month a year ago.

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Funday founder on how retail has changed since Covid – and remained the same

Inside Retail

As foot traffic returned, we rapidly expanded into mass grocery, petrol and convenience; channels like Woolworths, Coles, Ampol, Coles Express and thousands more independents and specialty stores. In what ways has it returned to “normal”? DK: Yes, and it brought a huge opportunity.

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Retailers ride the heatwave: How Asia’s summer is driving foot traffic and sales

Inside Retail

Since it is a time when Thais return home to spend time with their families outside the major cities where they have found employment, the spending tends to be fairly well distributed around the country rather than concentrated purely in the big cities. The governments Economic and Business Forecasting Center projected a 4.5

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GNC deploys autonomous drones to speed up fulfillment, drive inventory efficiency

Retail Customer Experience

Assessing ROI The return on investment is big for GNC as it went from counting inventory two to four times a year to doing it monthly. Thats a process improvement benefit we werent expecting but have since realized. Focus on tech that does the work, not just looks good doing it."

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L'ovedbaby goes personal to drive customer engagement, revenue

Retail Customer Experience

The return on investment, according to Birdseye, is multifold: Revenue per recipient increased by 340%. 15-20x return on investment. At Lovedbaby, the biggest return on investment has been the ability to conduct personalized email campaigns without having to bring on additional internal staff and resources.

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How technology has radically enhanced the consumer experience

Retail Times

There’s a quaint charm to the shopping experiences of yesteryear, when consumers would take a gentle stroll into town to visit various specialty stores to pick up their necessities.

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Australians return to the malls despite a plunge in consumer confidence

Inside Retail

Australians are returning to shopping malls as Covid fears subside with Scentre Group reporting customer visitations up 12 per cent on 2021 levels during the first quarter. Comparable sales of major retailers and specialty stores were up by 11.2 Excluding CBD-located centres, mall foot traffic is up by 16 per cent. “We

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