Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Blanca Gonzalez has led merchandising and brand management for top brands including Nike and Lululemon throughout the course of her career. Today, she is the senior vice president and general manager for WSS, a nationally recognised shoe retail chain , and Foot Locker. I was inspired by my mom, who was a seamstress.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Best and Less, The Reject Shop CEOs depart By Rakshnna Pattabiraman The CEOs of two discount retail chains — The Reject Shop and Best & Less Group — have stepped down with immediate effect today citing personal reasons. He will receive his accumulated leave entitlements and his six-month notice period paid out on February 28.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Customer theft has long been recognised as retailers’ primary source of loss, accounting for about half of all crime-related losses. When we sought answers from LP managers, enquiring about the tactics customers engaging in theft employed, their responses were both enlightening and disheartening.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

GMG is a Dubai-based company with distribution rights for more than 120 global brands in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and a portfolio of multi-brand retail chains across sports, food and beauty. It recently opened its first corporate office in Singapore, marking a significant milestone in the company’s expansion strategy.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

3D body scanning and sampling is especially popular with fashion retailers who want to give customers the perfect fit. Other companies are using blockchain, next-generation data analytics and AI to enhance their global supply chains. Digital technologies can also open new opportunities.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Japanese retailer Uniqlo is investing heavily in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to accelerate supply chain efficiencies, with an ambition to embed RFID into its global product range, facilitating improved inventory management and the customer self-checkout experience.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2022

FASHION AND DEALS. After a difficult start when it almost went bust, the company started making its own glasses a decade later and expanded rapidly in the 1980s when Del Vecchio spotted the value of making spectacles as a fashion accessory rather than a necessity. HANDS-ON MANAGER.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

“Those offline stores that manage to transition from a shady store by the train station into a bright, fancy, centre-located store with very well-educated staff will survive and will grow.”. The French adult retail chain Passage du Désir is a good example of this, Plettenberg said.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2025

The Black Friday and pre-Christmas sales period were not enough to make up for a harsh retail environment, a messy separation from David Jones and a hangover from bad publicity. This follows the departure of its managing director Elle Roseby last year. The comment reportedly earned rowdy disagreement from attendees.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

For an all too brief period, the Alceon investment house achieved its ambition to be the largest womens fashion specialty retailer in Australia. The only problem was the nine retail brands trading from around 1350 stores were a house of cards with a flawed investment play without retail smarts. W Lane and BeMe brands.

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