Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

The boost to locker locations comes as Australia Post’s latest Inside Australian Online Shopping eCommerce report reveals the volume of parcels increased almost 32 per cent over the 2020-21 financial year. Australia Post’s Nicole Sheffield, executive general manager community and consumer, said the partnership was timely.

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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

JULY 6, 2021

While there’s no doubt that 2020 was a tough year for all retailers, Australian denim brand Jeanswest had a steeper hill to climb than most, starting out the year under voluntary administration with the closure of 37 stores, the loss of 263 staff and owing $50 million to creditors. We definitely see marketplace as an opportunity for us.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2021

“These lockdowns look to have dented retail spending in areas hard-hit in 2020, notably hospitality and clothing and footwear,” said NAB chief economist Alan Oster. Consumer sentiment has managed to stay relatively flat across the country, though this is due to steep declines in certain states and sharp spikes in others.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As Chinese consumer spending on luxury goods continues to surge, luxury brands are doing everything they can to enhance their overall appeal. According to Euromonitor research, Chinese consumer spending on luxury goods is expected to hit $88 billion by 2028.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

During the economic and social crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers went from valuing long-standing relationships with their favourite brands to focusing on price and availability above all else. Retailers already have access to a lot of their customers’ information, but they aren’t able to use it effectively,” Patnaik said.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

billion in 2020 (Mordor Intelligence, 2021), Australians are major consumers of health and beauty products worldwide. Progressive retailers should be leveraging this white space to provide replacement experiences that give consumers an equal sense of belonging and connectedness to the brand, and to their family and friends, from home.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

million at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. It acted as a platform for consumers to interact with and learn about a rotating variety of omnichannel and digitally native brands, by way of QR codes. Showfields closed its Miami and New York City locations in July and September, respectively. Did we execute everything perfectly?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

As we closed out 2020, all data sources pointed towards households reverting to pre-Covid behaviours and a return to a more consistent and predictable purchasing rhythm. Effective supply chain management, scale and in-store support are integral components of the end-to-end provided by Strikeforce. Scope a project with us.

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Inside Retail

MAY 3, 2021

During the year so far, Supercheap Auto has seen sales increase 21 per cent compared to the same period of 2020, while sport retailer Rebel’s sales grew 20 per cent. As a result, the gross margin improvement which the Group delivered in the first half has been maintained in the second half,” Heraghty said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 18, 2021

“While clearly there are people struggling or worse off from the pandemic, more Australians feel better off, more financially secure and more in control of their finances,” said CBA executive manager of financial wellbeing Ben Grauer. Spending less, saving more and paying down debt have been the big stories from this past year.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

While the subject of cannabis legalisation still divides countries around the world, there is no denying the influence that legal cannabis products are having on retail and consumer goods. billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.2 per cent from 2021 to 2028.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Not only did the troubles of 2020-22 feel well and truly behind us, with retail and travel booming, but we got our first taste of ChatGPT and spent the holidays putting it to the test by writing greeting card messages, composing music and, more recently, creating new artwork.

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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 31, 2023

In 2020, Australian teen fashion brand Pavement joined a large list of retailers that entered voluntary administration, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as a major factor contributing to their exit from the retail landscape. Inside Retail: Tell me about Pavement’s relaunch in collaboration with Big W.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2022

Today’s filing will allow Revlon to offer our consumers the iconic products we have delivered for decades, while providing a clearer path for our future growth,” said Debra Perelman, Revlon’s president and CEO. Consumer demand for our products remains strong – people love our brands, and we continue to have a healthy market position.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Consumers will be even more selective, payment flexibility and innovation will be vital, and new tools to boost online security will gain momentum. Looking more closely, the drivers of digital activity reflect the circumstances and preferences of Australian consumers. Last year was another turning point for digital commerce.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 13, 2021

times the valuation of their last private funding round in 2020,” he said. The Food Standards Australia New Zealand Board (FSANZ) determined that there are no health and safety risks and that approving the ingredient would create more choices for consumers wanting to reduce or eliminate animal products from their diet.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

The coffee chain was founded by Charles Ly and Jenny Qian, both of whom held executive roles at Luckin Coffee before leaving the chain after the financial scandal in 2020 when the company confessed to falsifying its earnings. How does Cotti Coffee’s business model support its rapid growth?

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to a statement provided to Inside Retail by The Iconic, an internal review of the company’s payroll systems identified underpayments and overpayments of casual employees – with 814 current and former employees impacted between 2013-2020. For there to be any real change, the management responsible must go,” she said.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

last minute shopping needs, and complement our existing e-commerce offer,” Woolworths Metro general manager Justin Nolan said in a statement. Uber Eats regional general manager retail for ANZ, Lucas Groeneveld, said that the company has seen significant demand for grocery items on the platform. Changing shopping habits.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Elijah Etri, Skippy’s Fresh Frootz manager at Victoria Point, Queensland, has started a new Tiktok challenge, encouraging viewers to head into their local supermarket and check the prices of comparable produce and products. Roy Morgan’s latest Most Trusted Brands list, saw both of Australia’s major supermarkets fall in the rankings.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As restrictions ease, and consumers in Australia’s most populous states regain some basic freedoms, the recovery can now get underway. However, while retailers and consumers alike would be eager to put 2021 behind them, the research suggests recent events have yet again reshaped the way people shop and spend.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2021

We talk a lot as a management team about what’s the big driver,” Andrew Angus, Akubra’s general manager of sales and marketing, told Inside Retail. “Is Like many fashion brands, Akubra was hit hard by the change in consumer behaviour during Covid-19. Williams boots on Manly Beach.”. It’s slow fashion,” Angus said.

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Inside Retail

MAY 26, 2021

The fashion group, which manages Noni B, Millers, Rockmans, Katies, Rivers, Autograph, W. Mosaic pays $630,000 for breaching consumer law. During the period between March and June 2020, however, Mosaic sold a number of ‘Health Essential Products’ that were deemed to be falsely or misleadingly advertised by the ACCC.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Because if this business doesn’t improve, if the consumer does weaken in the second half, one would have to expect that [Catch’s] performance gets a little worse before it gets better.” “We Many of the category managers have also left, taking jobs at MyDeal, Kogan and MySale. How much pain are you prepared to put up with?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Even before thinking about the specifics, the timing of these sales appears challenging for both retailers and consumers, not to mention supply chains. Noticing these challenges, we teamed up with Associate Professor John Hopkins to explore how BFCM might be impacting Christmas, from supply chain to consumer behaviour.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

Videos and images of bare toilet paper shelves have once again surfaced online as consumers fall into old habits, forcing supermarkets to bring back purchase limits on high demand items. The groundwork done by supermarkets in 2020 to improve online shopping services will also likely alleviate the pressure on stores.

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Inside Retail

JULY 25, 2023

For now, the businesses will remain separate in the eyes of the consumer, though they will share systems in the back end, such as having a single tech-stack. But while Target initially seemed to be in a strong position, there was a lack of stability and understanding of what made the business tick within its management ranks.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 22, 2023

The European Union wants to give consumers the right to have worn-out products like washing machines and televisions repaired by producers even after the sales guarantee has expired, to cut waste and make goods last longer. In many cases, consumers simply replaced still-functioning goods because they wanted a newer version.

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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

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. Since 2020, MFW has delivered $80 million in economic impact for the city of Melbourne. “We’ve

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since then, Starbucks Australia has continued to struggle to compete with local competitors, but now, 15 years later, it is collaborating with Australian tech start-up Phantm to deliver a different value proposition to the local market, which could win over consumers and sustain the retailer’s future down under.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 10, 2021

Fast forward to today and the recommerce market is booming, thanks to a generational mindset shift combined with changes wrought by the global health pandemic that are driving consumers to adopt more sustainable shopping habits. The consumer love affair with recommerce. Especially if their living spaces are constrained.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

THG specialises in taking brands directly to consumers with divisions spanning the beauty, wellness and commerce industries. Back when THG was first publicly listed in September of 2020, it floated with a valuation of US$7 billion. Fast forward to November 2023, and THG has a market cap of US$1.31

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