Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2024

The Reject Shop’s low-cost operations combined with the ongoing success of its merchandise strategy are intended to set the retailer up for success despite macroeconomic conditions. The post How The Reject Shop’s merchandise strategy adapted to the cost-of-living crisis appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mark your calendars for the 16-17 April 2024, as the Visual Merchandising and Display Show returns to the Business Design Centre in London. The Visual Merchandising and Display Show: At the heart of the industry Taking place in the heart of London, the Business Design Centre will be filled with a cornucopia of industry experts.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2025

Our merchandise team is focused on creating curated ranges that align back to global trends, enabling us to provide our customers with great products at the lowest possible price, a Kmart spokesperson told Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2025

Customers can also access exclusive M&Ms merchandise at the store. We know that its popup in Garden Square will be one of the most popular destinations at AO 2025, with fans eager to experience the playful and immersive world of M&Ms.

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Creative Displays Now

JANUARY 2, 2025

Sports retail merchandising is about creating marketing strategies that reflect the customer’s desires and aspirations associated with a product. Create Window Displays Window displays and other outdoor merchandising strategies can draw customers into a store to try or purchase a particular product.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

billion in gross merchandise volume (total spend before fees, discounts and returns) up from $4.5 From buying in bulk to buying solutions, the way people purchase on Amazon is different depending on the category, so thinking through your merchandising approach is important to drive sizable sales and profitability.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

While retailers may wish to be exempt from the national Australia Day debat, a simple open or closed sign or decision to stock Australian flag merchandise says it all. As January 26 approaches, brands are starting to signal their values to their customers.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The 2025 Retail Visual Merchandising and Display Awards are officially open for entries, offering an exceptional opportunity for retail professionals to celebrate their creative achievements and gain valuable industry recognition. For those ready to take their place among the industry s best, submitting an entry is straightforward.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Instead of manually searching for items, employees can send digital requests for merchandise, ensuring that products are located and delivered to customers quickly. To solve this, Adidas has equipped its stores with mobile inventory devices that streamline communication between the sales floor and stockroom.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The department store chain has yet to name the appointees for the newly created roles of GM of merchandise for beauty, accessories and services and GM of merchandise for women’s apparel. Meanwhile, former Cedar Brands CEO Warwick Blunt will assume the newly constructed role of GM for digital commerce at Myer in November.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Imagine if you could get all your fresh groceries, plus household goods and general merchandise served through one familiar relationship and experience. Set to open next year, this futuristic ‘fulfilment centre meets supermarket’ will test Amazon’s ability to transfer its online presence into an offline world.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2025

Inside Retail connected with Millstein to discuss the brands plans to tap into channel expansion and merchandising opportunities and how the founder plans to turn Fishwife into a household name. IR : What strategies, from merchandising to marketing, has Fishwife incorporated in order to reach its growth trajectory?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

“The business successfully navigated the peak trade period through strategic initiatives across supply chain, stock availability, merchandising and ranging. These efforts drove accelerated growth in the second quarter at BCF and Rebel.”

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Of course, we were going to merchandise and offer a completely different experience in those seasons to the Australian consumer than we do in the rest of the world. But this is by far the biggest in terms of shifting around, whether it’s back to school, Christmas, Valentine’s Day and summer fun stuff, he continued.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2024

Broadening merchandise offer Hayes said the brand is broadening its merchandise offer and will lean on the expertise of 7-Eleven International in the food and the food supply chain across the 22,000 7-Eleven stores in Japan. Evolving our merchandise offer and expertise is incredibly exciting,” she said.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

The beauty of the merchandise and format is that it sits comfortably inside several different high-quality real estate platforms: principally regional malls, lifestyle malls and hypermarket-anchored centres hence its nearly 160 stores. New licensed merchandise hit the stores too. Same-store sales growth was 5.7

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Wide-angle beams were placed around the perimeter and evenly across the ceiling to highlight walkways, while narrow beams were strategically used to brighten window bays and merchandise countertops, creating the perfect ambient and display lighting.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2024

KFC is also bringing back the fan-favourite Christmas in July Feast and its annual merchandise range. Sales proceeds from the merchandise will go to the KFC Youth Foundation and its charity partners Black Dog Institute and ReachOut Australia. This story was originally published on Franchise Executives.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Since joining H&M in 2014, Li has worked her way through several different roles at the Swedish-born accessories and apparel brand, including merchandising, store development and e-commerce, to her job as head of customer activation and marketing for H&M Americas.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to thriving DTC operations, there are now 26 physical Parachute stores located across the US.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

“The mix that we’ve got is really good and allows the consumer to experience the brand in different ways, where we maintain a direct voice with them, but we also support our retail partners to add their own flavour and merchandise the brand and with your aesthetics as well,” Barnes added.

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Creative Displays Now

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Your retail display should use techniques like cross-merchandising and interactive elements to engage with customers and draw them into the aisle. Find Cross-Promotion Strategies Cross-promotion or cross-merchandising can improve shoppers’ experiences and encourage them to purchase complementary products.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Woolworths Group’s announcement earlier this month that it will no longer sell Australia Day-themed merchandise for the upcoming national holiday due to “a decline in demand” has been met with praise by supporters and calls for a boycott by critics. For a lot of people, myself included, January 26 is considered a day of invasion.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 23, 2024

The 2024 Visual Merchandising and Display Show, hosted on April 16-17 at the Business Design Centre in London, provided a comprehensive look at the future of engaging retail spaces through innovative design and display.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2025

However, as Gray pointed out, there has been growing interest in unique third spaces where consumers can chat with one another while browsing for unique concept-related merchandise. Additionally, a report released by trend forecasting company WGSN revealed a growing consumer profile type, a group they dubbed Gleamers.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We’ve brought in a very experienced omnichannel retailer by the name of Jacq Vuleta as the chief customer and merchandise officer, Laing said. And within that space, physical retail reports through to Jacq, and she’ll have a head of retail and a retail structure under her as we open more stores.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The formula is simple: take functional everyday items, redesign them imaginatively with eye-catching colour, texture and packaging, price them accessibly, showcase them with immaculate visual merchandising and make the shopping experience fun, and watch the customers come in droves. In just about every way, Oh!some

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

Nordstrom has been one of the weakest performers in the department store space, Saunders continued, adding that many adjustments are needed to fix recent missteps with merchandising, operations and store standards.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

After Nasard and Engelbert joined the Swarovski squad, the team worked quickly on executing an updated merchandising strategy, dubbed LUXignite. The first is the addition of the brand’s first creative director, Giovanna Engelbert, in 2020, and its first CEO from outside the founding family, Nasard, in 2022.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The business says consumers prefer “non-discretionary low-priced consumables” ahead of more discretionary products as general merchandise sales were softer than normal.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

Jen Tucker, the director of merchandise, also decided to leave following a family bereavement. Chief commercial officer Ben McIntosh, chief transformation officer Leah Balter, and GM of corporate affairs Maria McCarthy have exited the company. Other management shuffles include the appointment of Ryan Baker as chief operating officer.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2024

She also worked as GM of retail, store design, development and merchandising at Kathmandu and as GM of stores at Target Australia. Her previous roles included being a multi-state manager at Cue Clothing Co, GM of customer service at EFM Logistics, COO at Junior Adventures Group, and country director for Australasia at Karen Millen.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 4, 2022

Both stores will sell a range of official NBA and WNBA team and league-branded merchandise and memorabilia, including exclusive hyperlocal NBA products, apparel, headwear, jerseys, sporting goods and collectibles from brands such as Nike, New Era, Mitchell & Ness and Wilson.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

In line with long-term customer feedback, Liacos said the ban on inauthentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander products will help in the wider efforts to gradually improve and modernise the standard and variety of merchandise sold at the market.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 29, 2024

The liquidators have so far realised more than $3 million in sales of merchandise since the company was placed into voluntary administration. Although there was interest from potential buyers, no “acceptable offer” was as yet forthcoming, DVT said in a release. Its online site will trade until early November, or later.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

DP: I’ve worked in all aspects of fashion and retail, from operations to wholesale and from merchandising to retail. IR : How has your previous experience in the retail industry, working with companies like Diesel, Calvin Klein and Hugo Boss, prepared you for your current role with Paul Smith?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Last year, cumulative gross merchandising volume (GMV) sales across major e-commerce platforms rose 2 per cent to 1.14 Beijing outlined stimulus measures in late September to prop up the world’s second-largest economy but many have yet to be detailed, let alone impact consumer confidence in a significant way.

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