Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the Black Friday 2024 shopping frenzy approaches, Australian retailers are gearing up for their biggest challenge yet – managing skyrocketing demand while staying efficient. To seize this massive opportunity, retailers must ensure smooth, scalable shopping experiences, and automation is the way forward. The key to thriving?

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2022

The Cheesecake Shop (TCS) is an Aussie icon. The buyer was PAG, a multibillion-dollar international investment manager, able to provide TCS with strong financial backing and significant operational experience throughout Asia. Some Cheesecake Shop franchisees will have seen the business they operate change hands three times.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

A post-pandemic uptick in Australian e-commerce is here to stay, according to a new study conducted by order and delivery management software company ShipStation. As shown in the study, Australian consumers have consistently reported lower spending hesitancy on e-commerce platforms since 2020 as a result of Covid-19. “In

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Inside Retail

MAY 6, 2021

By screening and ranking candidates and providing a short list of the best matches to hiring managers, the ARA Talent Registry also helps reduce the time it takes to fill roles, which is one of retailers’ biggest complaints about the recruitment process, according to Zahra. A one-stop-shop. It’s an uneven recovery.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

The initiative will double the number of Australia Post parcel locker locations to more than 1000 giving customers more options for receiving their online shopping and parcels. More than 9 million households shop online, the postal service reports.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2021

The idea isn’t to have Uber drivers deliver customers a full grocery shop, said Woolies Metro general manager Justin Nolan, but to bring a smaller ‘top-up’ shop to your door, and will complement the business’ bigger e-commerce offering. The broader initiative follows a trial partnership with Uber in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2022

One of Newcastle’s newest shopping centres, Cameron Park Plaza, has sold to ASX-200 listed real estate fund manager Centura Capital Group in a deal worth $60.25 Constructed in September 2020, a 3857sqm Woolworths and BWS liquor store anchor the single-level 7037sqm centre. The post Newcastle shopping centre sells for $60.25

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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. Yeung said there will be store growth in all states. “We

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One recent study by ChannelAdvisor and Dynata surveyed over 1000 Australian consumers about their current shopping habits and how they expect these habits to change in the near future. As you might expect, the research shows Australians are doing more of their shopping online than they were before the pandemic.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Tough times “We’ve poured everything into it, given it every opportunity and it got to the point where it just couldn’t work,” Ross Poulakis, Harrolds Group’s managing director, told Inside Retail. I had clients tell me they refuse to shop in the city now,” Poulakis said.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to data from McKinsey, 76 per cent of consumers changed stores, brands or the channel through which they purchased products during 2020 – a figure that shows in stark relief what a massive change the pandemic brought upon the retail industry. What they want now, more than ever before, is a truly personal shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

million at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. The retailer used RetailNext’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to measure consumers’ shopping journeys through the store anonymously, gathering data such as sales figures, traffic figures, customers’ gender and more. Did we execute everything perfectly?

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

E-commerce sales in 2020 and, so far in 2021, have surged off the back of the continuing Covid-19 restrictions. It’s costing [brands] millions,” said Costa Mikhael, ANZ sales leader of master data management at Informatica. If there was ever a time to take the digital presence of your business to the next level, it’s now.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

Supermarket chain Woolworths has unveiled gteh post-beta iteration of its business-focused online shopping platform, Woolworths at Work. The concept has been live in beta phase since September 2020 with Woolworths taking steps to improve the customer experience progressively ahead of the formal launch this week.

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Retail Focus

JULY 19, 2021

The ‘offline’ retail experience at Trentham Shopping Village is proving a hit with businesses and visitors alike. With an occupancy of 98%, the popular North Staffordshire retail destination – to the south of Stoke-on-Trent – is thriving despite the challenges of Covid-19 and online shopping. visitors per year.

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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? We have also iterated on store formats.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

According to WooliesX Managing Director Amanda Bardwell, e-commerce sales at the supermarket jumped 92 per cent from July to December 2020, and now account for eight per cent of total sales. We’ve seen an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year,” said Bardwell. “As

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For Australian property group Mirvac, this isn’t just a strategic investment but also a partnership it hopes will help shape the future of its retail business through shopping centre activations. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Image: Supplied. Solving the $1 trillion ‘fit’ problem.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through the Aldi Shop&Go app, shops track customers with a number of high-tech cameras as they make their way through the store; they are automatically charged once they leave – mirroring the model set out by Amazon’s first Go store, launched in 2016, which offers a range of packaged ready-to-eat meals.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

At the release of its unaudited results, Kogan said the management team had misjudged the level of inventory and operational capacity it would need to grow through the second half, and purchased too much stock.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2023

There was huge momentum behind the ‘shop local’ movement over the last few years, as consumers were restricted to certain locations during Covid-19 lock-downs, and felt connected to the success and survival of local businesses. But] the picture is not all rosy.

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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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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Bright Data , the global industry leader in making public web data accessible to all, has today released new research that reveals consumer sentiments around the 2021 holiday shopping season, including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. For those that currently only shop in person, 14% said they will do more online shopping this year.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Poppy Lomax, Buying Manager for Womenswear at Harrods, said: “ Over recent years, there has been a huge increase in creative output from the Chinese luxury industry, and this growth has been really exciting to watch. Over the past twelve months, Harrods has increased its presence in China substantially.

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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. Supermarket restrictions.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Duty free shop operators and other airport retailers will be happy with the long-awaited (limited) opening of Australia’s international borders in November. It isn’t clear how quickly airlines will be able to crank up capacity and so we don’t know how many imprisoned Australians will manage to exit. Let’s assume it happens though.

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Retail Focus

JULY 20, 2021

A multi-million pound programme of investment announced today by Ellandi , a UK privately-owned shopping centre operator, is set to transform Merry Hill shopping centre near Birmingham into a best-in-class regional retail destination and the most vibrant family lifestyle destination in the West Midlands by July 2025.

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Inside Retail

JULY 14, 2024

For example, after many retailers ran out of stock in 2020 and 2021, thanks to the circumstances caused by the pandemic, they over-corrected by placing larger-than-needed orders in 2022. Walmart has been using advanced AI technology to optimise inventory management for a few years already.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2022

The company was particularly hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 when sales fell by 21 per cent worldwide to $1.9 billion, before recovering last year as people returned to shops, social occasions and workplaces.

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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.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 17, 2021

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. It wasn’t just pandemic-induced restrictions that influenced the digital shopping activity of Australians.

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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. With more than 350,000 gifts redeemed and sent to loved ones in April 2020, TikTok launched a second round of ‘Small Gestures’ in August 2020. Valued at USD $3.73 Reimagining the physical store .

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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

JUNE 30, 2022

Makers & Merchants Barossa was conceived in early 2020 as a pop-up store to showcase the best of what the Barossa region has to offer – from established brands to emerging designers, artists and makers. But it wasn’t long before Cox realised that there was an opportunity to create something bigger than a temporary shop. “I

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2022

Makers & Merchants Barossa was conceived in early 2020 as a pop-up store to showcase the best of what the Barossa region has to offer – from established brands to emerging designers, artists and makers. But it wasn’t long before Cox realised that there was an opportunity to create something bigger than a temporary shop. “I

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