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How Amazon plans to disrupt the grocery sector by merging choice and convenience

Inside Retail

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. This is how Amazon plans to deliver choice and convenience to consumers without compromising on speed or value.

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How Officeworks uses customer insights to drive strategy

Inside Retail

In todays competitive retail landscape, customer insights play a crucial role in shaping business strategies and enhancing the overall shopping experience. IR : How do you plan to improve your understanding of the customer in 2025? But what are the most effective ways to capture these insights and communicate them to the head office?

Strategy 130
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Behind Vera Bradley’s brand turnaround strategy to reach Gen Z

Inside Retail

The brand’s lackluster merchandising combined with its lack of technological updates made keeping up in an increasingly competitive handbag and accessories market that much harder. We are prudently planning the second half through a more conservative lens, as we expect the trends we’ve seen in both brands to continue.

Strategy 130
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Beare Park founder Gabriella Pereira reveals her pop-up strategy 

Inside Retail

GP: When designing the customer experience for our pop-up, we took inspiration from luxury stores and closely studied their visual merchandising and how they engaged customers. IR : How do you plan to approach overseas expansion? Weve really enjoyed the process and think theres potential for this model to work in other cities.

Strategy 130
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Amazon is set to take off in Australia this year, get ready

Inside Retail

billion in gross merchandise volume (total spend before fees, discounts and returns) up from $4.5 In April 2024, it announced it planned to invest $490 million in opening two new fulfilment centres in Horsley Park, Western Sydney, with one to open later in 2025 and the other by 2026. billion in the prior year.

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How Flying Tiger aims to compete in Australia with playful, affordable design

Inside Retail

Flying Tigers expansion strategy is rapid; it plans to have a footprint of 50 stores across Australia in the next five years. 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.

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Retail’s new range: The evolution of merchandise planning

Inside Retail

This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes. Such decisions are not new; however, they are now occurring outside of typical planning cycles and with less data to guide them. The complex shift to omnichannel.