Inside Retail
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Australians are tipped to spend $4 billion on Boxing Day this year – a premium on last year’s expectations of $2.6 billion – according to predictions from Commonwealth Bank. The main driver of the excess spending, according to CBA executive general manager of everyday banking Kate Crous, are shoppers not wanting to pay full price after two years of pandemic has left them wanting to make their money go further.
Design Boom
DECEMBER 18, 2021
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Retail Focus
DECEMBER 21, 2021
This year for its annual festive campaign, Nespresso is collaborating with the Colombian fashion designer and artist Johanna Ortiz : Under the creative idea “Gifts of the Forest”, specially chosen boutique windows are being enhanced through augmented reality – sound transducers turn them into a sound object with “Forest Sound” Nespresso, the manufacturers of coffee and coffee capsules owned by Swiss food group Nestlé, has launched an unconventional campaign with a new app
Design Week
DECEMBER 20, 2021
“Every year around this time, I add another note to my phone with a list of New Year’s resolutions, some small, some big and some that are often forgotten about by February. Looking at the year ahead with a refreshed outlook, I’d like to keep the list relatively simple. Next year I’d like to worry less about the small things and make braver decisions about the big things.
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Inside Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
From Burberry and Dolce & Gabbana to Nike, major fashion brands in recent months have been embracing NFTs and now, small Australian businesses will be given support to explore virtual fashion, thanks to a new FashTech Lab program from the Australian Fashion Council (AFC). “Many fashion brands are hesitant to adopt a digital design workflow as their current practices are expensive to transition away from.
Talking Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
More than half of customers think that local retailers could make better use of social media, according to a leading insurer. Information about offers was the most popular request (58%) while a smaller number of those surveyed (28%) wanted to know about a retailer’s specialist products and 24% wanted them to bring the community together. This story continues at Local retailers advised to make better use of social media as restrictions return.
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Design Week
DECEMBER 22, 2021
London-based digital design studio Sennep has put an online spin on the tradition of wood-turning with its Pinecraft platform. The interactive lathe tool lets people carve and paint their own Christmas tree – ensuring that each project is unique. For every tree that is added to the virtual forest, one tree will be planted in the real world. Last year, almost 7,000 mangrove trees were planted in.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Heartbroken by the disappearance of her cat, Filipino IT specialist and blogger Sophie* decided to use her Facebook Ads account to appeal to anyone in her local area who might have seen it. Just two days later her bank account had been emptied and Facebook was sending her a demand for further advertising it served after her debit card charge bounced and before her campaign was cancelled.
Talking Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Nisa’s entire stock of fresh eggs will be free-range from the end of the year, the group announced this week. The Co-op, which owns Nisa, already has all its own-brand eggs as free-range, so Nisa’s move will bring it in line with the Co-op’s sourcing policy. Darren Hamilton, Nisa’s wholesale category controller, said: “We are. This story continues at Nisa commits to entirely ethical eggs from 2022.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Saint Laurent has announced the opening of a flagship store in Paris at Avenue Champs-Élysées for summer 2023. The designer apparently expressed this ambition to open on the prestigious avenue in 1983, when the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosted a major Yves Saint Laurent exhibition — the first retrospective of a living couturier’s work.
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VMS
DECEMBER 21, 2021
The subject of Covid and its seemingly endless variants and resulting changes to protocols elicits groans, eye-rolls and sighs of exhaustion. The pandemic has changed our lives, our habits, our ways of existence and our ways of thinking. We have gained, and we have lost. How we live and do business may never be the same. When Covid was declared a global pandemic in March 2020, many projects – in all industries across the world – were paused or postponed.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Woolies chief executive Brad Banducci has penned an open letter to Australian pharmacists outlining the supermarket group’s plans for Australian Pharmaceutical Industries , should it win out over rival Wesfarmers. The letter, which appeared in Pharmacy Daily on Monday , comes after Wesfarmers’ boss Rob Scott said many pharmacists find the overlap between products sold across Woolworths’ stores and many pharmacies uncomfortable , and could lead to issues.
Talking Retail
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Mondel?z International is set to launch an on-pack competition across its Cadbury hot chocolate portfolio. Kicking off from January 2022, the “Make it Yours” competition will run across Cadbury Drinking Chocolate 500g and Cadbury Instant Hot Chocolate 400g packs for three months. Shoppers can enter their details on makeityours.cadbury.co.uk for the chance to win their.
Retail Focus
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Canadian fashion and lifestyle brand Frank and Oak expands its footprint in Asia with the opening of its first Experience Store in Shanghai, China on 1st December. Located at Tai Koo Li mall in downtown Shanghai, the new Frank and Oak Experience Store was designed by Montreal-born Sacha Silva, who has been pioneering sustainable design and construction in China for more than 20 years.
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VMS
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Pritzer Prize-winner architect Richard Rogers has died at age 88, reports CNN. Rogers is known for designing the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the 3 World Trade Center tower in New York and the Millennium Dome in London. New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman called Rogers “an architect of tremendous humanity and vitality and visual genius, one of the greats, and great not least for his deep commitment to civil society and the life of the streets” in a Twitter post.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Christmas has always been the major peak season for many retailers, but like so many other parts of business operations, the festive season has been impacted by significant changes since Covid hit, some of which may be permanent. If you cast your mind back to 2019, Christmas was business as usual. “E-commerce was on a steady rise. People were shopping in stores and Black Friday, Cyber Monday were becoming successful sale events on those specific days.
Talking Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Diageo has rolled out a new design for its Bell’s Original Whisky, supported by a £1m media investment. The new design is rolling out now in 700ml and one-litre formats, featuring an image of the brand’s founder Arthur Bell. The new design is supported by a TV advert and radio and social media support running. This story continues at Diageo unveils new design for Bell’s whisky.
Design Wanted
DECEMBER 23, 2021
With dramatic effect, the Scottish-born, Sweden-based silversmith mixes an unexpected palette made up mostly of waste materials. David Taylor’s start in the world of design is a triumphant one. It began with a bad case of hepatitis and a six-week hospital stint in Tanzania. With time to think, Taylor realised pursuing his passion for making would make him truly happy.
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VMS
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Drug store chain Rite Aid (Camp Hill, Pa.) will close another 63 stores to save close to $25 million per year, reports CNN. The company has not shared the locations of the stores, but said the closures will help “reduce costs, drive improved profitability and ensure that we have a healthy foundation to grow from.” Rite Aid operates about 2500 stores across 19 states.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 19, 2021
McDonald’s reopens its first Australian store with a flashback to the 1970s. It was the Yagoona outlet in Sydney that brought the Golden Arches to these shores and on Friday 17 December, the memory of those days was revived with limited time retro pricing on the menu. Celebrating 50 years since the very first Macca’s opened its doors in December 1971, the new McDonald’s Yagoona reduced the Hamburger to its original 20 cents for two hours.
Talking Retail
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Red Bull is launching a sugar-free price-marked multi-pack exclusively for symbol and independent convenience stores. The packs are rolling out this month and retail at £4.69 per pack from Booker, Premier, Family Shopper and independent stores. The launch is designed to “meet demand for sugar-free soft drink options”, as shoppers are “actively seeking a healthier.
Design Wanted
DECEMBER 21, 2021
A new exhibition on show in London at The Design Museum highlights the designers creating inspiring pieces from discarded materials. To coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Design Museum is hosting an exhibition showing what design can do to tackle the critical problem of waste and its environmental consequences across the globe.
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Bay Cities
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Paying attention to how major, national retailers interact and engage with their customers can often be a source for inspiration for organizations both large and small. It can also be a way to better understand the ever-changing needs of the modern consumer as well. Costco, Kohl's, Target, and Walmart/Sam's Club have a lot of insight to offer about where consumers are today and where they may be headed.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Employers who mandated vaccines in the workplace are being urgently warned to consider updating their policies to also include booster shots, as New South Wales and Victoria grapple with increasing cases of the Omicron strain of COVID-19. Fay Calderone, partner and workplace relations lawyer at Hall & Wilcox, says if the level of protection vaccines give against severe illness wanes after four months, and more rapidly for AstraZeneca, employers that have enforced mandates will need to revise
VMS
DECEMBER 21, 2021
German footwear brand Adidas (Herzogenaurach, Germany) has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Reebok to Authentic Brands Group (ABG) for up to 2.1 billion euro, or $2.36 billion U.S., according to a press release. The sale is expected to close during the first quarter of 2022. “Reebok has been a valued part of adidas, and we are grateful for the contributions the brand and the team behind it have made to our company.
Design Wanted
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Hsiang Han Design’s two-part collection highlights wood manufacturing techniques in Chiayi and the value of waste materials. Forest & Soul was created on the occasion of the 2021 Taiwan Design Expo in Chiayi as a way of celebrating the city’s wood craftsmanship and to show the possibilities of transferring wood waste into new uses and objects. The two-part collection features a series of wooden tables and decorative glass plates produced by Hsiang Han Design as part of a commission for the C
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Design Week
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Design studio Only has crafted the new identity for the British International Research Institutes (BIRI), a network of cultural and academic hubs between the UK and the world. Only has created a new logo, inspired by Doric the order, as well as the logotype, printed materials and wider identity work for the group. BIRI’s institutes are located in southern Europe, Africa, Turkey, and more.
Inside Retail
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Chemist Warehouse has been accused of inflating product prices across the Black Friday weekend, signalling ‘savings’ which were actually higher than the standard prices advertised before and after the shopping event. According to a report by consumer advocate Choice, at least three products saw prices a collective 38 per cent higher than their ‘regular’ price – a wooden bath brush, a pack of 1000 fish oil tablets, and Blackmores calcium and magnesium tablets.
VMS
DECEMBER 21, 2021
JCPenney (Plano, Texas) has partnered with DoorDash for same-day delivery of its beauty and salon merchandise in select markets as well as home products available in more than 600 stores, according to a press release. “JCPenney is continuing to make accelerated changes to deliver a competitive and accessible omni-always shopping experience,” said Richard Adams, VP, Digital Experience, JCPenney.
Design Wanted
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Multi-disciplinary design studio Hsiang Han Design has collaborated with local glass producers to give new life to the waste wood. Here, Hsiang Han Design highlights the rising set of applications when it comes to recycled wood, especially in industries such as furniture. Forest & Soul is a two-part collection created on occasion of the 2021 Design Expo in Chaiyi, which is known for its historical wood production.
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