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The New ‘Pandemic Personas’: Defining the Seismic Shift in Consumer Buying Behaviors

Retail TouchPoints

The consumer buying behaviors retail marketers all once knew to be true experienced a seismic shift. He wants brands to take the time to study consumer behaviors and insights in real time, and use that data to personalize their marketing efforts specifically to Frugal Freddie’s needs. Socially-Conscious Sally.

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Booktopia may have collapsed, but here’s why bookshops are not endangered

Inside Retail

Founded in 2004, the company grew quickly , from turning over $2000 in the first month, to $30,000 in the fourth. It moved into a larger warehouse in 2014 and by 2018, it was shipping 30,000 parcels per day. But the damage done to consumer confidence has driven business to its competitors.

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Booktopia searches for new CEO after Tony Nash steps aside

Inside Retail

Building Booktopia from a budget of just $10 a day in 2004 into Australia’s leading online book retailer has been an incredibly rewarding journey,” he said. million, units shipped up 7 per cent to 6.75 Nash, the online book retailer’s co-founder, will stay on the company’s board and remain fully involved with the business.

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Five lessons business leaders can take from the recent wave of retail collapses

Inside Retail

The cost-of-living crisis and decreased discretionary consumer spending continue to wreak havoc on established retail businesses, as evidenced by the collapse of several Australian retailers in recent months, including Booktopia, Tigerlily, Nique, Dion Lee and Godfreys. Units shipped were also down 21 per cent to 3.1 million, down $12.8

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Resilience Training: Small Business Innovation During a Recession

Retail TouchPoints

For example, if a lifestyle boutique is selling prepackaged beauty goods, it can expand into selling by-the-pump bulk soaps and lotions and refillable bottles to consumers looking for no-waste refills. Find New Ways to Serve Your Niche and Your Most Loyal Customers. Narrowing your focus has the added benefit of efficiency and sustainability.

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Who could replace Sharon White as the next John Lewis Partnership chair?

Retail Gazette

Archie Norman Archie Norman has spent the last six years overseeing food and fashion group M&S’s turnaround plan as it looks to re-establish its brand, win back consumers and return to profit. Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Sound familiar?

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Sweet success: How NZ honey brand Comvita is charting international growth

Inside Retail

We went into the Hong Kong market first nearly three decades ago through a local distributor, then we lined up a distributor in mainland China in 2004, followed by forays into Japan and South Korea around the same time,” Andy Chen, Comvita’s CEO of Asia Pacific, told Inside Retail. “I Engaging the Chinese consumer. A plan of attack.

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