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Ramadan shopping trends unpacked: What retailers need to know

Inside Retail

Ramadan continues to be a crucial shopping period across Southeast Asia, with evolving consumer behaviours and market dynamics shaping the retail landscape. Growing demand has led some retailers to operate 24 hours a day to accommodate changing consumption patterns. This year, Ramadan began on February 28 and ends on March 30.

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Retail Sales Incentive Programs

Retail Focus

Retail sales incentive programs are an excellent way for retailers to reward their most valuable assets—their employees—by showing tangible gratitude. There has been a lot of talk lately about how customer service and retail jobs are on the decline. Retail Sales Incentive Programs: What Are They and Why Are They Used?

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Christmas retail sales tipped to top $60 billion

Inside Retail

Australian Christmas retail sales are predicted to exceed $60 billion, despite the impact of inflation and cost of living problems, according to research from the National Retailers Association (NRA). Covering the pre and post-Christmas shopping periods, that figure would represent a 3.9 per cent increase over last year.

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Supply and demand: Where the retail property market is headed

Inside Retail

Add to that a natural increase (births minus deaths) of just over 200,000 over the same period and you have a material population gain to support retail sales growth. Even as immigration slows under political pressure to reduce numbers, retail industry professionals have reason to remain optimistic.

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Vincom’s retail struggles: Vacancy woes persist amidst Vietnam’s shopping boom

Inside Retail

per cent from a year ago, due to the opening of new malls and improved occupancy over the portfolio, but Vincoms revenue crown jewel, the sale of inventory properties (shophouses), has been hollowed out. The company managed to eke out a 1.7 per cent but the sale of shophouses cut roughly in half. Leasing revenue increased 3.9

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“Very few small shops left”: Biome founder on the plight of small retailers

Inside Retail

All of this has had a damaging effect on retail sales, which have been subdued in recent months. According to a joint study by the Australian Retailers Association and American Express, 32 per cent of small and medium businesses with a turnover of less than $50 million are feeling uncertain about the year ahead. “The

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Australia Post invests in South Australia ahead of Christmas rush

Inside Retail

Australia Post’s head of South Australian delivery operations Rob Clothier said the new facility will help to manage the surge in online shopping as a result of the pandemic, with September’s parcel volumes up 7 per cent in SA compared to a year prior. “We billion overall.