Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The shift in spending towards online channels is another permanent outcome of the pandemic, with annual events such as the Black Friday and Click Frenzy sales helping to propel end-of-season retail sales well into November , permanently changing the flow of consumers’ retail spending patterns.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2022

Pattern Australia has released its fourth annual report on consumer considerations and e-commerce. Key findings of the report include: Amazon Australia has held onto the growth from the previous two years, maintaining over 50 per cent saturation in the local market. You can download the full report here.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2021

The big question that remains to be seen is whether they will revert back to their former purchasing patterns and forgo their reliance on e-commerce to keep their refrigerators and pantries stocked post-pandemic. Globally, Asia dominates the e-commerce universe, accounting for over 50 per cent of all retail sales.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Global retailers, as opposed to those operating in a limited geographic space, are in the enviable position of being able to offset weakness in one area with strength in another. Now, those retailers are having to modify their expectations. Sales up and inflation non-existent On the surface at least, things are by no means dire.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2024

Aeon Mall, Japan’s pan-Asian mall developer, is slowly but surely engineering a shift in its development focus from Japan to growth markets in China and Southeast Asia. As a result, the contribution of those non-Japan markets to revenue can be expected to increase steadily. In June, retail sales were up 2.0

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Hunton Andrews Kurth

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Multi-level marketing has touched us all – whether it be purchasing beauty products, essential oils, or health supplements from a friend through social media, or receiving an invitation to join a team of seemingly successful people working their “side hustle.” The potential for legal snags may be hidden in the seams.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands that had previously relied on bricks-and-mortar sales had to accelerate their e-commerce strategies, TikTok became an extremely effective advertising and marketing tool, and certain retail categories like travel retail saw their sales drop virtually overnight. The market is expected to grow to US$126.48

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Inside Retail

APRIL 10, 2023

Walmart] would undoubtedly have seen Amazon’s massive growth over the past few years take a big chunk out of their market share, necessitating a need to win back their customers’ attention with a reinvigorated, integrated omni-channel shopping experience,” he told Inside Retail. Chia pointed out that Walmart only accounts for 6.3

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, behind the headline numbers sits a range of spending patterns. For example, general retail recorded the strongest growth among discretionary categories, rising by 5 per cent. At a sub-category level, there are even bigger movers, which present opportunities for some retailers and heightened competition for others.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2022

And while the business’ retail division is ending the year on strong footing, potentially more impressive is its digital uptake. Donohue noted that the group sees an opportunity to better personalise its marketing content for its growing loyal customer base: with the ‘My Dan’ loyalty program jumping 15 per cent to over 4.5

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 15, 2023

With consumer confidence well below 100, inflation high, and interest rates fuelling concerns about mortgage stress and negative equity – and the continuing spectre of recession – we would expect to see highly predictable patterns of behaviour. I can reveal that retail sales for Q1 of 2023 are forecast to be $99.9

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I’ll start with a particularly interesting one that has strong voices on either side: what proportion of sales will be online in 2022? Last year, I interviewed Jonathan Reeves from Eagle Eye for my Shopology show and he predicted that online would account for half of retail sales by 2030. Now it doesn’t seem so far out of reach.

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Barber Design

AUGUST 19, 2016

Indications are that this heightened performance was driven by elements of retail strategy and promotional activity across the retail sales industry during this period. In the first full month since the EU referendum result, like-for-like retail sales jumped by 1.1% Food sales rise.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 8, 2022

Visual merchandising is a marketing practice that retailers and consumer products companies use to capture people’s attention so they’re more likely to purchase something. Since then, the market has become saturated with competition. Many retailers also practice visual merchandising in their stores.

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RetailMinded

OCTOBER 2, 2023

According to a report by Maersk, 40% of retailers have wanted to increase the resilience of their supply chains since the global pandemic, which impacted businesses. Challenge 2: Efficient Inventory Management Challenge: Maintaining optimal inventory levels is a critical aspect of retail.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

After a month of fasting from 23 March to 21 April, Eid al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the fast, will be celebrated for around two days, and will most likely lead to an increase in retail sales. Sales figures continued to rise during Ramadan until approximately one week before Eid.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2024

How previous election seasons have affected the retail market When looking at all the elections from 1940 to today, retail sales have shown 0.8 Whether this pattern holds true for the 2024 election remains to be seen. This means it will be a bit more subdued for retail. Businesses, too, feel an impact.

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