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Meet the power couple behind Stax and Secondleft

Inside Retail

After three years of continuous pop-up store activations, Australian athleisure brand Stax last year opened its 12th permanent retail location and flagship store at Sydney CBDs Westfield Sydney mall. When Matilda first met Don in 2016, I had absolutely no interest in Stax, she told Inside Retail.

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The story behind The Ripped Bodice, an indie bookstore for romance lovers

Inside Retail

In the spring of 2016, the two opened the first location of The Ripped Bodice, one of the first and only romance-focused bookstores in the US, in Culver City, California. Inside Retail : You and your sister originally launched The Ripped Bodice in 2016 in Los Angeles.

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How Taking Shape is leveraging backend efficiency gains to grow overseas

Inside Retail

What we want to do is make buying online as easy and as engaging as it is in-store,” Krista Diez-Simon, Taking Shapes’s chief financial officer and chief operations officer, told Inside Retail. It wasn’t even necessarily a scan and pick-by-location system, it was almost paper-based.

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Olympic fever: A golden opportunity – if you’ve got cash to splash

Inside Retail

The brand is back for another Games, building on its sponsorship of the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 teams. Still on the ground in Paris, fans and athletes alike are set to snap up Olympic memorabilia with pin badges available for each sport as well as iconic locations. Can’t make it there? No worries.

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How Quad Lock is growing through ambassadors, sponsorships and the F1

Inside Retail

The Quad Lock Box will also be used to build relationships with relevant ambassadors, including a Q&A with F1 driver Oscar Piastri – interviewed by 2016 Australian rally champion and Quad Lock ambassador Molly Tylor – and well as members of the Red Bull Ampol racing team. Quad Lock has also received over 80,000 reviews on its website.

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Why cultural appropriation keeps happening — and how to fix it

Inside Retail

Brayshaw pointed to the Brazilian fashion brand Osklen , which paid the Asháninka community that lives in the Brazilian and Peruvian rainforest in exchange for permission to incorporate their traditional tattoos and designs in its Spring 2016 collection. The community used the funds to build a school among other projects.

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Affordable luxury: A look at Aldi’s London champagne bar

Inside Retail

Aldi’s latest pop-up is the second effort the business has made to showcase its wine offering, having also launched a ‘futuristic’ wine store in 2016 which saw online wine sales jump 47 per cent according to Gorkana. This latest wine store succeeded in showing off Aldi’s goods – but it was also just good marketing. “It