Retail Focus

APRIL 19, 2022

Long before Covid, retailers were lacking a certain originality having become too transactional, but in the years leading up to 2020, imaginative changes were already being made to re-engage consumers. Something that’s prevalent in articles from 2020 and in recent months, is the need for stores to be agile and flexible.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

As far back as May 2020, an Ipsos study indicated that two-thirds of Americans were buying directly on, or discovering products through, social media. Because social media is where many consumers spend their time, and where they look for inspiration and discovery. And for consumers: Discovery of new products and services.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2021

People are spending more time on social media in general, but they are spending less time engaging with others content. The number of Australian consumers who made purchases through social media in 2020 was 5.3 Let’s take a deep dive into how social media will transform the marketing practices in the year ahead.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It too has created new needs to be met and in turn, it has necessitated new products, devices and services which are designed to engage and connect. New technologies have sprung up to connect consumers at a time of increasing distance. The possibilities for increasing consumer engagement and consumer connection are endless.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

In the era of direct-to-consumer, social commerce, performance marketing and marketplace plays, you’d be forgiven for thinking that apps belong in 2011. However, according to Accenture’s 9th wave of Covid consumer research, two in three consumers continue to use brand apps for ordering.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2024

In the payments space, Paypal acquired the AI-powered browser extension, Honey, which finds and applies coupon codes at checkout, for US$4 billion in 2020. It’s a great opportunity for retailers with products on promotion to get in front of consumers,” Walsh said. What does this mean for retail partners?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The Gilbert Review, led by Australian lawyer Danny Gilbert AM, gathered feedback from a large number of stakeholders and determined that the retailer had failed to engage with the community properly. We know that our customers want one, but we need to do it in a more responsible, engaged, thoughtful manner,” he said. “We per cent. .

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2021

] While live-streaming platforms may once have been reserved for gamers and their fans, luxury fashion brands are increasingly turning to this unique method of connecting with consumers. Amazon-owned Twitch is home to 91 per cent of all streaming content, according to a 2020 report from Stream Hatchet and Streamlabs. Digital natives.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2024

This article delves into the psychological effects of the Olympics, explores how they influence consumer behaviour and provides insights into what retailers can do to capture and extend the positive sentiments the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will generate. Let’s break some of them down and look at a few examples more closely.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Brands that successfully surfed 2020’s first wave of Covid-impacted consumer behaviour changes have now learned that was the best and longest ride. The reality is that 2020 was a year like no other. There are always winners and losers with large-scale shifts in consumer behaviour, and this time is no different.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

AR has a wide variety of potential applications, from allowing consumers to virtually try on clothes or see how products fit within their own homes, to enabling employees and designers to better explore product features. In fact, a large proportion of consumers (almost half) are at best Hesitant towards AR, or at worst actively Averse.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2021

Despite launching an e-commerce site and new look stores in mid-2018, the Healthy Life franchise struggled to make an impact on consumers. Consumers have always had a need for health products but the market has been cluttered and has lacked differentiation. The difference now is that consumer values have really shifted.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2024

The reported closure of Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar stores managed by authorised retail partners in China has raised questions about the tech giant’s strategy in the world’s second-largest economy and whether the move is counterintuitive when the market’s consumer electronics sector has seen a sign of recovery. billion, in 2023.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Google started working with its AR and AI partners ModiFace and Perfect Corp on a tool that would allow users to virtually try on eyeshadow, lipstick, and foundation shades online in December 2020. This allowed consumers to “try out” a piece of furniture and get a feel for whether or not it would work. In 2020, 83.1

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

Consumers now expect retailers to engage them whenever and wherever they want, with a shopping experience tailored to their individual needs. Today’s consumers expect more than just personalised experiences. And consumers can feel it. Creating cohesive customer experiences.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

After closing its first direct-to-consumer (DTC) store in Australia in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, the brand initially planned to open a boutique in Bondi Beach. Coming to the consumer Ecoya has a strong online business partially attributed to its loyal following.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

In 2020 and 2021, empty shelves were due to spikes in demand, as shoppers responded to lockdowns by buying more toilet paper, pasta and other consumables. Apart from the first wave in March 2020, shortages were localised. Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The downfall derived from months of lowered consumer demand, lowered average selling prices, and increased expenses. It wasn’t until the late 1980s that gem-quality, lab-grown diamonds became available on a commercial level to consumers. per cent of diamond engagement rings sold in the US in February were set with lab-grown diamonds.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2021

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns and restrictions, consumer habits are no longer the same as they were before. . Furthermore, Euromonitor International projects that half of the absolute value growth for the global retail sector from 2020 to 2025 will be digital. Retail has changed forever.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

According to the e-commerce company’s latest Trender report, emerging innovations like ‘shoppertainment’ and virtual retailing are enabling brands to further diversify their omni channel offerings and cater to modern consumers who expect more from online retail platforms. Another driver is demographics.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 23, 2024

The brand includes a line of products retailed both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and through its retail partners – a natural progression in Eucalyptus’s purpose to build a better future for healthcare by improving outdated and inefficient systems entrenched within the healthcare system.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

Lacoste Japan, operator of the French premium casual brand, has collected zero-party data based on the consent of the consumer in preparation for the upcoming restrictions on the use of cookie data. Consumers were asked to choose their favourite long sleeve polo colours and vote against other colours. Campaign objectives.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Here, we speak with Nathalie Ahlström, who has led the company’s transformation since she was appointed CEO in 2020 and recently visited its operations in Sydney, Australia. NA: Well, in consumer demographics, not only talking about Australia, many of our brands have extremely healthy consumer demographics.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

billion in sales in the first nine months of 2020, a 32 per cent increase on the prior corresponding period, thanks to the impact of Covid-19. This company grew like crazy during 2020 like every other online pureplay,” Shira Levine , Wish’s global businesses development representative for Australia and New Zealand, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

He highlighted the importance of having a local trusted partner on the ground to ensure that the brand is relevant and translated appropriately for the Chinese consumer. We mean something quite different to the US consumer than what we do to the Australian consumer. In the US, we are very strong in body care.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It is quite the milestone, it does mean we’ve officially taken the designer crown of being the longest-running consumer fashion event in Australia,” Matthew Flinn, MFW senior manager, told Inside Retail. In that time, more than 10 million people have engaged with the capsules and enjoyed them,” revealed Flinn. “I

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

The use of videos as part of a retail marketing strategy is a tried and tested method to catch consumers’ attention and drive sales. It’s a great way to connect directly with consumers and talk more about certain aspects of the brand’s story, and importantly, it allows customers to ask questions and receive answers in real-time.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The eccentric nature of these collaborations, coupled with their innovative packaging design, makes for the perfect unboxing video, tapping heavily into Gen Z’s consumer interests. The video-sharing app and its Chinese counterpart, Douyin, hold a particularly tight grip on Asia’s Gen Z consumer base. The American spin-off.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

“Other than playing an active role in reducing our environmental footprint, sustainable store design will increase the brand’s credibility in the eyes of the modern, mindful consumer and also saves money in the long-term with lesser consumption of energy and waste,” a Takashimaya spokesperson said.

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RetailMinded

JULY 16, 2020

DENVER, CO — July 16, 2020 — ACTION IN RETAIL is pleased to welcome Co-Hosts IBM, Lightspeed and Zoovu to their debut, virtual experience that will provide inclusive, diverse and accessible business solutions and content to help retailers of all sizes navigate and thrive as the sector builds back better. Consumers are changing.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

The panel found that while Woolworths was informed about the demand for a more self-sustaining economy and better infrastructure in Darwin, it did not engage with the challenges faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in the Northern Territory and the risks of alcohol-related harm. .

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

billion) in sales in the year ending February 2, 2020, the most recent trading update the retailer has provided. And Selfridges Group managing director Anne Pitcher said the company was “pleased with the growth in digital” in 2020. billion (AU$3.72 billion), The Guardian reported. “The Who will buy Selfridges?

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

With exciting overseas holidays and drinking and dining off the cards in the past year, some consumers are now indulging in other ways and spending their money on discretionary categories such as fine jewellery, which has seen a rise in sales during Covid. The company saw a 29 per cent increase year on year to €714.3 told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Thousands of beauty-lovers descended on New York City recently to enjoy the return of Sephoria, a consumer beauty event that Sephora first launched in 2018. After cancelling the festival entirely in 2020 due to the pandemic, Sephora introduced a digital version in 2021.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Supermarket Woolworths has also been singled out after a slide from a 2020 training module, uploaded by a user on Reddit, claimed it uses facial mapping and artificial intelligence in its CCTV system, and had shared this data with police in order to help them apprehend suspects. Most customer’s “uncomfortable” with surveillance .

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

Accordingly, brands spend significant time and money positioning themselves to create positive associations with consumers, whether that’s through communicating their purpose or engaging in worthy environmental or social partnerships. ASIC’s consumer research indicates 21 per cent of BNPL users missed a payment in the past 12 months.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2021

Apple is doing this as the retail industry works out what the post-pandemic future will look like, including consumers who have become used to ordering almost everything online. Apple boomed during the pandemic, hitting $2 trillion in market capitalization in August 2020 and setting records for sales of iPhones and several other categories.

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