Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI image recognition FMCG is a technology that transforms how brands manage shelves, track inventory, and understand their consumer behavior. Enhancing Shelf Management with AI Shelf management is critical for retail success. Poorly managed shelves lead to lost sales, frustrated customers, and damaged brand reputations.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

.” Manousaridis also emphasised the need to penalise Zhao to hold him accountable and deter other company managers from committing the misconduct.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The company is investing in other initiatives across the business, including in supply chain, technology, infrastructure and warehouse management, he added. The store openings are part of the strategies to improve sales and gross profit margin in FY25, said CEO Clinton Cahn. The Reject Shop posted record sales of $852.7

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2025

. “Our customers have been asking for Glassons and Harbour Town is excited to deliver the brand’s biggest store in Australia,” said Kylie Neal, Harbour Town Premium Outlets centre manager. Another new retailer to open at the centre is crystal retailer Swarovski.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 29, 2025

Established in 2022 in Howrah, the retail centre spans 6002sqm and is anchored by a Coles supermarket, a full-line Priceline, a 24-hour drive-thru McDonald’s Liquorland, and 16 other specialty stores. JLL’s Jacob Swan, Stuart Taylor and Tom Noonan managed the sale process.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Inside Retail spoke to Fenske to unpack her view on managers versus leaders, how her leadership style has evolved with time and experience and why she continues to reinvest in her professional development. IR : Being a manager and a leader are two entirely different roles. But our store managers lead larger teams than most people.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

Inside Retail spoke to industry experts Brian Walker, founder and executive chair of Retail Doctor Group, Mal Chia, managing director and co-founder of Ecom Nation, and Dr Jessica Pallant, marketing lecturer at RMIT University, for their take on the situation. The company then became a low-cost e-commerce platform offering everyday deals.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As part of the integration, some Monki stores will be converted into multi-brand Weekday destinations, while others will be closed. The full merger of Monki into the Weekday platform is slated for next year, covering both online and off-line retail.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

And some seven years on, much to the dismay of retailers, it is now starting to shake the tree and become a real force in the market , as Australian shoppers increasingly turn to alternatives to manage the cost-of-living crisis. Amazon announced it posted over $3.1 billion in 2022. million subscribers in Australia.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2025

The founding Ito family of Seven & I Holdings failed to secure financing for a US$58 billion management buyout in February, sending its shares plunging 11.7 Other investors have privately echoed similar sentiments. per cent in Tokyo in the largest one-day drop in more than a decade.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

But according to one industry expert, the current UWU strike should not be viewed as an isolated incident separate from Woolworths’ other headline-making actions and allegations this year. “The Woolies is accused of rorting its customers, not paying their workers fairly, and presiding over empty shelves.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

How Parachute popped off Like many other successful DTC brands in the market, the concept for Parachute came from a personal place of need and interest from the founder. It generated about $150 million in revenue in 2021 and has become one of the most popular home goods brands in the direct-to-consumer (DTC) and physical retail space.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2025

Over the past 12 months, we have been building up our selection of products, investing in our operations network, and opening new fulfilment centres, said Anthony Perizzolo, general manager of delivery and supply chain for Amazon Australia. Too many times in other industries it just becomes about cost and that gets embedded in peoples minds.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Typically, consumers seek out department stores and shopping centres to get in the holiday spirit but LaManna has managed to position itself as the exception. Inside Retail : How has LaManna differentiated its holiday season offering from other supermarkets? PL: December is our busiest month, and preparation starts months in advance.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

While there are some more obvious steps retailers can take to bolster sustainability such as switching plastic-based bags for paper alternatives and putting in place product recycling schemes, other actions may not be so apparent. These glue-free tiles are not only durable and easy to maintain but also recyclable at the end of their life.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 19, 2025

With this in mind, the experts at RotaCloud workforce management software for growing businesses have shared tips to increase employee retention and reduce staff turnover for 2025. Professional Service / Public Service – 24% Other – 21.3% Entertainment / Leisure – 29.1% Retail – 25.2%

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Divisions that were previously run separately, including Woolworths Supermarkets, Metro Greenstock and Woolworths Food Company Retail, have been united under a new banner, Woolworths Retail, led by managing director Annette Karantoni.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The presence of major international players such as AEW, CBRE IM, Pradera, Klepierre, URW, Ingka Centres, Nhood, Altarea, Hammerson, IGD, Apsys, Mercialys, Sonae Sierra, and others highlighted the significance of the event. This increasing polarisation underscores the value of well-managed assets.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In his view, successful brands are those that answer the customer’s question, or in other words, meet the customer’s demand. “If However, Gray did counter his praise of Wirth with a caveat, suggesting that there’s still room for Myer to explore more in-store curation to deepen brand experience and connection with their target market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

“What the ARA has proposed is that managers can opt into a pay increase if they select the voluntary salary absorption option.This will only apply to employees that agree to it.” Moreover, retail managers would be able to choose an annual salary at a higher fixed rate over variable, hourly penalty rates.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 22, 2025

However, the focus has been on its crypto usability for too long, and many are forgetting how helpful it could be in other real-world scenarios. Its relevance spans several sectors, including real estate, healthcare, mortgages, supply chain management and retail. Read on for all you need to know.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For October, the brand analysis focused on the dispatch and delivery criteria, which include dispatch times, delivery times, dispatch and delivery communication, order traceability, courier quality, and the effectiveness of delivery expectations management.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 2, 2025

While certain trends that were apparent this year may not be as key in 2025, others will continue into the next year and beyond, playing a major role in shaping customer demand. It is fair to say that retail has had its ups and down in 2024, with plenty of challenges accompanying the good times.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The winners of this years Retailer Awards run the gamut from large chains with hundreds of stores to family-owned businesses and e-commerce start-ups punching well above their weight to deliver incredible customer experiences, said Heather McIlvaine, Inside Retail’s managing editor of features and premium.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Jerome Bellony, managing director of Clarins Australia and New Zealand, spoke with Inside Retail about entering a new era in how the business connects with customers. Once we have gathered insights and feedback from this launch, we will assess opportunities to expand into other key locations within the region.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

I don’t think it matters that you’re small, it’s what you’re doing,” Tonia Bastyan, design and marketing manager at BlockTexx, told Inside Retail. In other words, garments that can’t be resold or reworked for a new customer. “We

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

An overly prescriptive culture leaves managers with no work to do and can lead to confusion, disengagement, toxicity and therefore, an erosion of the belonging that they’re looking to create. Ownership and definition of culture require that managers are provided with the skills to turn good intentions into good action.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This stand-alone app will be expected to compete with other fashion retailers like Walmart-owned Myntra. In 2020, India banned Shein’s app alongside other Chinese applications like TikTok due to security concerns during border tensions.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Before joining New Zealand healthcare brand Comvita , Andy Chen worked in HR and project management at Walmart for 10 years. I spent 10 years at Walmart in HR management and project management. AC: Normally, general managers and CEOs come from operations or sales roles. The other one is Koo In-hwoi, Founder of LG Group.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

There are other areas of the marketing funnel that retailers can look to explore before going all in on paid media, including local area marketing. Fieldings point around understanding individual consumers and communities before advertising to them is echoed by Ben Willee, the general manager and media director at advertising agency Spinach.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ultimately, thats about leveraging AI driven offerings to unlock sharper, faster, more cost-effective approaches to managing critical back-end processes like demand forecasting, pricing, inventory control and fulfilment. The key, he said, is to empower technology and let go. You can download the full report here.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 4, 2025

Inside Retail spoke with Officeworks’ general manager of customer and online Jessica Richmond about how the big-box retailer integrates customer feedback into decision-making. This solution integrates customer communications with our store-management systems.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

To meet these demands and elevate its fulfilment strategy, Freedom partnered with Shippit , ANZ’s leading commerce delivery platform, and Fluent Commerce’s Distributed Order Management System (OMS), Fluent Order Management. Managing deliveries for a large network of stores required significant manual coordination with multiple vendors.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Their hallmark is providing a persistent, unified database of customer data accessible to other systems. For example, a large retail chain managing millions of customer interactions across eCommerce, loyalty programs, and physical stores may benefit from the robust capabilities of a stand-alone CDP.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Streamlining the payout experience for merchants and other businesses,Ecommpay, the inclusive global payments platform, has launched a new Payouts via Hosted Payment Page facility.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2025

Say yes to opportunities even if you dont know where theyll lead In our interview with Meg Zalewski, Rebels general manager of retail operations, about what it takes for women to reach the C-suite in retail, she highlighted the importance of making lateral moves to gain a breadth of experience early in your career.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

In late December, the company announced that the Nordstrom family, including Erik, Pete, and Jamie Nordstrom, among others, and Mexican retail group El Puerto de Liverpool would acquire all the outstanding common shares for US$6.25

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