Inside Retail

MAY 9, 2021

Simon Schofield : Despite the impact 2020 had on the retail sector, it certainly was a special year for Witchery. Customers have missed the experience of shopping in-store, and we’ve seen strong support across our suburban stores, with improvement in CBD locations in recent months.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Adaptive fashion retailer EveryHuman has more than doubled its range and entered several new categories as it looks to become a one-stop-shop for people with disabilities to buy accessible products for everyday life. per cent from 2020. Major players get on board. The global adaptive clothing market is expected to reach US$4.2

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

Looking ahead to the future of online shopping, three key trends in particular are likely to have lasting implications. Around the world, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are becoming mainstream — and they’re causing a major shift in where, when and how shopping is done. Direct-to-consumer selling. Fulfilment of the future.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2022

Costco plans to open three new stores in Melbourne and Geelong within the next two years, investing up to $150 million. During the Covid lockdowns, Costco remained a ‘destination shop’ for Melbournians as members travelled long distances to shop at the store, buying in bulk when regulations allowed. billion in 2020 to $2.8

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2024

The company’s trustees have initiated a final liquidation due to the lack of cash flow and a recovery plan. The fate of five other shops in Barcelona, Geneva, Madrid, Milan and Zurich is unclear. Europe-based home furnishing chain Habitat has shut down all of its operations, just a month after collapsing into receivership.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Pret a Manger has said it will open more than 200 UK shops over the next two years, after securing a further £100 million cash injection. Pret a Manger has announced ambitious expansion plans (Steve Parsons/PA). million for 2020, in new filings on Companies House.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2022

A $250 million development plan is set to transform a 3.6ha Adelaide plot into a modern food and retail-oriented mixed-use centre featuring apartments and a piazza-style market square. The land was then sold to German hypermarket Kaufland which planned to build a flagship store there before cancelling plans to launch in Australia in 2020.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. An artist’s render of the site. Source: Supplied.

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Retail Focus

MAY 11, 2021

Over the last year, restrictions around ceremonies and receptions have halted or postponed over 150,000 couples’ plans – that’s over 60% of the number of weddings scheduled to happen in 2020. This summer, Selfridges will offer a wedding experience for couples looking for a non-traditional ceremony in a venue like no other.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2024

Little Birdie is an AI-powered price-comparison shopping platform that launched in 2021, with $30 million in funding from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, before suspending operations in May. Our vision is to be the ultimate shopping companion,” Anthony Seymour-Walsh, CEO of CashRewards, told Inside Retail.

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VMS

JULY 29, 2021

Dollar General first announced the pOpshelf concept, where the majority of items are priced at $5 or less, in October 2020. The retailer plans approximately 25 Dollar General/pOpshelf combination stores by the end of fiscal 2021. Since then, it has opened 16 stores in three states.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2022

A traditional tea drink from Taiwan, bubble tea has spread across the world in recent years and in Australia, shopping centres across the country feature a bubble tea franchise – most likely, global giant Chatime. Here, Andrew Benefield chief development officer at Chatime Group reveals the future plans for the business in Australia.

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VMS

JUNE 21, 2021

Glossier (New York) is planning to open three permanent brick-and-mortar stores, according to a company blog post. The brand is also planning to reopen a store in New York by 2022. In 2020, Glossier closed both its New York and Los Angeles stores permanently due to the Covid pandemic.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 6, 2021

A host of retailers have confirmed reopening plans for April 12 as shoppers look forward to a return to bricks and mortar shopping after more than three months. John Lewis outlined its plans for April 12 for its remaining 32 shops in England (John Lewis/PA).

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social commerce – shopping on social media platforms – is expected to reach US$1.2 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. TikTok’s Hashtag Challenge Plus enables users to shop for products associated with a sponsored hashtag.

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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

JUNE 8, 2021

Rama Suparta: The traditional way of shopping for eyewear is not fun and it’s expensive: 1. Saturdays redefined the offline shopping experience with glasses displayed in a modern cafe. RS: We aspire to provide an unmatched experience for customers who have been accustomed to shopping for eyewear in dull and conventional manners.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2024

While the everyday consumer has become pri c e-sensitive with the growing costs of living in the US, the 1 per cent is still spending – to a point where the luxury shopping market has become more competitive than ever. The retail expert noted that “for discretionary luxury shopping in physical retail, this is paramount”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2022

There are times when you just shouldn’t be opening a new shopping centre. Realistically, the spending gap for Thailand’s many tourism-dependent shopping centres will not be filled until 2024 at the earliest, even then if certain factors are in alignment. Simon has repeated its successful formula for the premium outlet centre layout.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Now the company’s founder has disclosed, in an interview with Inside Retail , plans to treble its store network within five years, add another 10 brands to its portfolio, and expand abroad – all while preparing for a potential IPO. per cent year-on-year sales growth in 2020, one of only five markets worldwide where sales increased that year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

I had clients tell me they refuse to shop in the city now,” Poulakis said. They told him it was “easier to drive to Chadstone, valet the car and go shopping” than to navigate public transport. Notably, Harrolds was a latecomer to e-commerce, only launching an online shopping site in 2020.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

And, with three new stores planned to open in Australia as well as its first in New Zealand later this year, Costco is working on expanding its reach both offline and online. I’d love to say it was strategically planned that way, but it wasn’t,” Costco Australia’s merchandise manager for e-Commerce Sandi Corthnwaite told Inside Retail. “I’d

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 1, 2021

If you look at the general landscape, the guys like Catch, Kogan, eBay and Amazon, they’re all trying to be a one-stop-shop for everything, whereas we’re trying to offer the best experience, the biggest range, the best value on home and lifestyle products,” Mangan told Inside Retail. . “No-one’s Investment in private label

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The relative success of some prominent retailers can’t mask the vacant shopfronts in shopping malls, let alone the tenancies that remain open courtesy only of short- or even long-term rent concessions.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 29, 2021

Following the launch of its inaugural store in Lakeside, Essex in September 2020, Harrods has announced the opening of its next stand-alone H beauty destination in centre:mk, Milton Keynes. The 29,000 sq.ft. space brings together a diverse portfolio of premium brands, must-have products and exceptional beauty services and experiences.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2024

On Monday, the US-based resale platform StockX launched a shopping app for Apple Vision Pro , a spatial computer that blends digital content and apps with the real world and lets users navigate this blended reality using their eyes, hands, and voice. In 2020, 83.1 million people in the US used AR every month, a marked jump from 68.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Heading into November are we meant to be planning for Christmas, or making the most of these big sales events (we’ll use ‘BFCM’ as shorthand to refer to these sales but we mean all the sales happening around this time of year)? Christmas planning cycles. There are also meaningful supply chain and distribution challenges to overcome.

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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. Overall, a slim majority of respondents (56%) in both the US and UK plan to participate in these discount days.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Here, Incu CEO Douglas Low discusses the improved the shopping experience at A.P.C. IR: When do you plan to launch the new websites? IR: Were those stores planned and delayed due to Covid, or has there been a recent increase in demand? The post Inside Incu’s digital relaunch plans for A.P.C.

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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. Mirvac partnership taps into community connection. Image: Supplied.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2022

Located on the corner of Sydney’s Pitt and Market Streets, and spanning 3000sqm, the store features interiors designed by architecture firm Bates Smart, featuring a fresh and contemporary style yet integrating the latest technology to enhance the customer shopping experience. .

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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. The post How US retailers are preparing for this year’s holiday shopping period appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips. Towards the end of 2020, we saw a growth in localism, people working from home, staying home and shopping local.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2024

The strategy aligns with Microsoft’s global retail plan announced in 2020, which involved closing most of its physical Microsoft Store locations worldwide,” the research manager said. “By exiting physical retail, Microsoft aims to streamline operations for greater efficiency and focus on higher-margin products and services.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

It plans to offer apparel, footwear and accessories and is currently seeking global partners with sourcing and design capabilities to licence the brand. While Gordon Brothers has primarily focused on Laura Ashley’s homewares offering since buying the brand in 2020, Nanda believes the majority of its growth will come from fashion. “It’s

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In October 2020, it opened The Residence Shanghai, its first private shopping space dedicated to its Chinese clients, which was followed by the launch of The Residence Beijing in June 2021. Following SFW, The Harrods Hive will be sustained both online and offline, to continue to support this community of future leaders. .

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