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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Customers are already getting used to adopting digital technology to manage their health, whether it be the government’s Medicare app, the MedAdvisor app for prescription management, or retailer apps like Chemist Warehouse’s Health @ Your Fingertips or Amcal’s health management app. These lead to environmental waste, for sure.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With real-time task management and peer-to-peer communication solutions, you can deliver the speed, power and ease your workforce needs to lift productivity and service. Zebra Workcloud Timekeeping tracks staff members’ time, attendance and compliance, making it easier to monitor and manage labour costs.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2024

For many people who need flexible hours, retail is a great career option with a clear path to promotion. Here, we speak with multisite store manager at BWS Nikita Lakhote about what drew her to the retail industry, her future career goals and what businesses need to do to attract top candidates in a competitive recruitment environment.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Dynamic subscription-management tools allow consumers to adjust their delivery schedules and product selections easily​. As consumers manage multiple subscriptions across different services, the time and expense this requires – and the potential to be overwhelmed from too many recurring deliveries – may lead to cancellations.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 18, 2024

Delivery management platform, Scurri , today reported an increase in the total gross merchandising value (GMV) of goods processed through its platform, which totalled over €12 billion in 2023.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

The receivers and managers of Mosaic Brands Group announced the closure of the apparel brand on Thursday. Sale events and promotions will be run in all stores, and the timing of individual store closures will depend on stock levels. The shutdown will impact 136 Rivers stores and approximately 650 employees.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The company said its continued focus on pricing and promotion management helped expand gross margin to 82.4 The jewellery and accessories retailer’s profit grew 6.5 per cent to $56.9 million as revenue climbed 8.8 per cent to $405.9 million and comparable store sales rose 0.1

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2024

Pip Edwards – the other co-founder – will continue managing the business alongside the other board members. Greaves was not present at the show and had not appeared in the promotional material in the lead-up to the event. Greaves will remain on the board of the company and retain her shareholding, the brand said in a statement.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2022

More than 74 per cent of Australian shoppers are already signed up to receive SMS marketing messages from brands, while more than half (51 per cent) say they would sign up for texts so they can know immediately about promotions, offers, and updates. It also enables us to nourish our relationships with our loyalty program members.”.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Adore Beautys earnings more than doubled in the fiscal first half, which management says reflects the early phase of the companys growth strategy. The companys earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) for the six months ended December 31 jumped 118 per cent to $2.7

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s hard to separate the cost-of-living crisis from the impending lawsuits against ‘The Big two’ as Australian households attempt to manage their household budgets amidst inflation. Coles and Woolworths intend to defend themselves against the accusations of misleading promotions and illusory sales.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

“We remain focused on continued expansion of gross margins through growth of our owned brands, further growth of retail media, refined promotional cadence and disciplined inventory management,” said Sacha Laing, Adore Beauty CEO. However, its net profit attributable to shareholders declined 36.6

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2024

TikTok’s tool kit TikTok provides a whole new set of tools for retail brands and content creators to leverage: Shop ads allow sellers to promote their TikTok Shops, converting app users to customers seamlessly. Shop Tab is an online marketplace where customers can quickly search for products and compare promotions to find the best deal.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The appointment of Amanda Bardwell as Woolworths Group’s next managing director and CEO, effective September 1, marks a historic moment for the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W, which reported nearly $65 billion in sales last financial year. She took on her most recent role, as the managing director of WooliesX, in 2017.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ash Barty said “Promoting physical activity and wellbeing amongst young people is incredibly important to me. Grill’d founder and managing director, Simon Crowe, said “We are honoured to be collaborating with one of Australia’s most accomplished athletes on this initiative.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In 2021, she was promoted to brand director for Australia and New Zealand where she was the lead architect in the redesign of the Lego portfolio differentiation strategy. McKenny joined The Lego Group in 2009 and has been responsible for the development and execution of some of the brand’s biggest campaigns in the region.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The corporate regulator has alleged that consumers who signed up for the promotion were liable for $537 in charges even if they paid off their purchase over the full interest-free period. The date for the first case management hearing has yet to be scheduled by the court. . Consumers have a right to make informed choices,” said Court.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

By identifying new trends in how consumers are making purchase decisions around promotional discounts and impulse purchases, retailers can meet the consumer where their budget is and potentially bend it. This shift in shopping behaviour is not particularly surprising for retailers but it does present a unique marketing challenge.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“Adidas would be right to really tap the brakes on the Samba and Gazelle, to make sure they promote the sell-through,” he said. Reporting by Helen Reid, Editing by Nick Zieminski) The post Why Adidas must manage the ‘push and pull’ of demand for its trendy sneakers appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Woolworths Group’s managing director Brad Banducci agreed, stating that while the impact on Woolworths’ supply chain hadn’t been as pronounced as compared to the height of the pandemic, stock availability has been one of its customers’ biggest pain points. A key focus: promotions or margin?

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Craig Marion, VP, Global Product Management, DemandTec. Taking advantage of autonomous pricing and promotion enabled by data-driven solutions means retailers can seamlessly adopt recommended prices and promotions from their AI science, within whatever guardrails or tolerances they set.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2023

Effective and targeted promotions and a disciplined approach to cost management have ensured that this top-line growth has translated into strong first-half earnings.”. Sports retail subsidiary Rebel registered $682 million in sales followed by BCF at $447 million and Macpac at $101 million.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2024

Customers are looking for more ways to save, are cross-shopping more, buying more own brand and buying more product on promotion,” said Banducci. According to Coles’ findings, customers are more willing to drive further and shop across multiple retailers to manage their budgets based on their independent online research. “In

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This means adopting new-generation technologies such as digital signage, powered by a robust operating system, enabling remote management, personalisation and interactivity with in-store signage. “As “Retailers need to reflect the tailored and personalised experience of online, but in-store.”. ” No more these days, explains Hanns. “The

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The barcode was initially developed to improve the checkout experience and inventory management in the grocery sector and it is now used in almost every industry and sector. The barcode has also been instrumental in promoting sustainability in the supply chain. Without it, the modern global supply chain would be unimaginable.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Black Friday Cyber Monday sales period has expanded to become ‘Black November’ this year, with many retailers and brands starting their promotions earlier than ever. In 2021, the business went live with its promotions on November 18, in 2022 on November 15 and last year on November 9. This presents a predicament for retailers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

In the latest edition of her Retail Untangled podcast series, Inside Retail ’s Amie Larter talked to Toby Cumpstay, senior merchant success manager at Shopify, about how retailers can navigate such a challenging course – and where there are opportunities to outperform rivals. Loyalty is hard to earn but easy to lose,” he says.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before the promotion, McMillan served as COO and brand officer of Frankie4. She started with the company as a human resource manager when it operated podiatry clinics in Brisbane. “Hilary possesses all the skills, passion, and vision to take Frankie4 to the next level,” said Frankie4 co-founder Caroline McCulloch.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2024

I think you find that in retail, getting started in those sorts of projects requires senior management, usually the finance team, to really understand what’s possible,” Christophe DuMonet, managing director of Esker Australia, a global cloud platform that offers AI-based order-to-cash and source-to-pay solutions, told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2022

Building a winning strategy through product catalogue selection, pricing, inventory management and great customer service. Product feed management solutions can help optimise, test and deliver this data. Pricing in a way that responds to price-matching dynamics and synchronises promotions across channels.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Inventory management Predictive analytics: This helps optimise your stock levels, preventing overstocking and stockouts. Targeted advertising: You can use data to target promotions effectively, enhancing campaign ROI. This means you can get the most out of each product you are selling.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

We know that hiring or promoting older workers is essential for multi-generational teams to be successful. Barriers to recruiting older workers are reduced when managers challenge ageist stereotypes, utilise an age-diverse hiring panel, use age-inclusive language in recruitment documents and focus on the specific skills required for the job.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2023

Our key focus is on executing our strategic priorities, being disciplined on promotional activity and price point management to maximise gross margin dollars, controlling costs and delivering outstanding customer service to maximise sales conversion and basket size.” For the first seven weeks of FY24, sales fell 15.6

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

Recent research by The Workforce Institute at UKG , indicates that 69 per cent of people think their manager has more impact on their mental health than their therapist or doctor, and a similar impact on their partner. As a manager, this can be a confronting reality. Integrated manager-led coaching. Simply, powerful LMS.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

The online shop will serve up new additions to the online store at 8:30am on Wednesdays and Saturdays in line with the Special Buys promotion in-store. A rolling tool chest, USB condenser microphone and an auto shredder are among the upcoming items being promoted on the site. Managing costs.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2023

Irene has vast experience in marketing and promotion and Just Wines has a strong track record in administration, operations, and managing the supply chain. “As As the non-alcoholic sector is a real growth area, this will enable Sans Drinks – already the number one retailer in this segment – to grow at a much faster pace.”

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