Inside Retail

MARCH 11, 2025

E-commerce remains a critical driver, and we are investing in a seamless omnichannel experience to meet the expectations of Asias tech-savvy and design-conscious consumers. The company is refining its consumer touchpoints to ensure a frictionless journey across online and offline platforms.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

Until recently, there didnt seem to be a limit to the price that consumers would pay for a luxury status symbol, such as a leather handbag. per cent), the US will remain a key market for luxury brands, attracting affluent consumers and driving sales across various product categories, Zheng said.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

In 2008, the British company brought its innovation team in-house to remain at the forefront of the highly competitive industry. To ensure full control from concept to the finished product, our own research and development laboratory in Cambridge, England, was established in 2008.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many Australians have lost trust in supermarket pricing, with more consumers now comparing prices between stores before making a purchase. “Many consumers have told us that they are losing trust in the sale price claims by supermarkets,” said Mick Keogh, ACCC deputy chair.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is the highest rate in nearly 41 years. High inflation is weighing on shoppers’ budgets, with 62% expecting their living costs to increase even further over the next six months, according to data from Ernst & Young’s (EY) Future Consumer Index. Inflation reached 9.1%

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 20, 2022

Mortgage Rates Make Historically Biggest Weekly Jump – Highest Since 2008. Small businesses are often forced to react by taking steps like increasing their prices to accommodate for less consumer spending. A report in Fox News says the rate puts mortgages at their highest level since 2009, 13 years ago. Image: Depositphotos.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The pricing practices of Australia’s supermarket near-duopoly are about to the the focus of a year-long enquiry by the government’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

From preventing foodborne illness outbreaks to revealing specific calorie counts, labels have evolved to meet the needs of consumers, providing the context and critical information to impact daily decision-making. It also shows up in a business’ bottom line, given that eco-conscious consumers are willing to pay 9.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

for 2021 — the highest annual rate since 2008’s 3.8%. A retailer may have loyal customers who love what you’re selling, and if you indicate to them what your cost structure is and how it’s gone up, it may help consumers understand that they’re not being taken advantage of,” said Kannan. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Moving from Vertical Operations to Asset-Light Gordon Brothers then set to work reimagining Laura Ashleys business model, while ensuring it stayed top-of-mind with consumers through a combination of product licensing and marketing activations. The brand has to have some form of emotional connection to the consumer, said DAngelo.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2024

There has to be a reason that resonates with the consumer to make them want to make a purchase and ultimately want to continue to have loyalty to your brand and be a part of it. You need to totally build the shopping experience from the consumer backwards. But at the end of the day, its the people who buy the product, right?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Beauty business Following the acquisition, MCoBeauty will sit within DBGs VidaCorp portfolio, which also includes Nude By Nature, founded in 2008, and Makeup Cartel, founded in 2013. Her success is a direct answer to a shifting consumer mindset, why should luxury beauty only be accessible to a few? he told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2021

Consumer shopping habits have shifted irreversibly towards ecommerce in the past two years. In the face of this product scarcity, the retailers that could fulfill consumer needs quickly were immediately rewarded. For many, every day has become a holiday as new packages arrive from their favorite online retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

The term rose to the surface last year as 2020’s unique confluence of events drove consumers toward shopping alternatives that were both environmentally friendly and economically feasible. The consumer is changing, the way that they purchase is going to change,” he said. “We In the retailX keynote session on Wednesday, Aug.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

Vasos joined Dollar General in 2008 as the company’s EVP, Division President and CMO. Other major strategic developments during Vasos’ tenure included a launch into the self-distribution of frozen and refrigerated goods with DG Fresh and the of the pOpshelf retail concept targeted to a more upscale consumer.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Consumer demand for Sephora is strong in Liverpool, and securing best-in-class retailers and experiences for the city is precisely what we aim to achieve at the destination, so the entrance of this beauty powerhouse is a natural partnership. It is globally celebrated, has a huge base of loyal fans, and delivers a bold, compelling concept.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Established in Nanjing, China in 2008, and now headquartered in Singapore, Shein has grown rapidly to become the world’s largest fashion retailer with an estimated value of $64 billion ,” reads the letter. Goods manufactured in that area of China are not entitled to entry into the U.S. under the 2021 Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2023

The last time there were three consecutive quarters of declining retail volume sales was in 2008 – at the time of the Global Financial Crisis. ARA CEO Paul Zahra said the decline demonstrates a continued slowdown in consumer spending – and adds to the pressure retailers are already under as the cost of doing business skyrockets.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

Suiting was once reserved for men’s formal attire and workwear but now the fashion industry is following consumer trends and doubling down on business casual. This corporate aesthetic that is bleeding into consumers’ everyday wear signals more than just a style fad.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

We don’t have a COVID-19 crystal ball to see how this uncertainty will pan out, but we can see that consumer spending is shifting amid the pandemic. Disposable income and the savings rates for consumers — despite the nearly Great-Depression-level unemployment numbers — are at multi-year highs. Consumers may do one of three things: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

In fact, Stephen Sadove, former CEO and Chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue , indicated that “this is one of the most interesting times [for the industry] since the [2008] recession,” where “we came out and saw this massive disruption in the environment,” he said in a press briefing during the Big Show. “It The top five themes include: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As consumers around the world have minimized the amount of time they spend outside their homes, many created digital accounts to conveniently shop online. This data can now be used to help retailers better understand consumer needs, capitalize on digital commerce and track customer shopping patterns over time.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

He joined the company in 2008 and has held leadership positions across different divisions. Hufnagel has an established career in retail, holding roles at brands like Under Armour , Gap and Abercombie & Fitch as well as deep roots within the Wolverine Worldwide business specifically.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 16, 2024

Culture Kings is an Australian retail phenomenon, what started as a Carrara market stall in 2008 evolved into an international retailer being listed on the stock exchange with a $600 million valuation. Create the brand, the emotion, the resonance, break [consumers] patterns so they remember you,” concluded Beard.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While the NRF has yet to release its total sales projections for the season, its early consumer research reveals that consumers plan to spend an average of $875 this holiday season, in line with the five-year average — and most of that money will be spent online. Provide flexible scheduling.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

of its sales through the direct-to-consumer channel during the latest quarter. Like the rest of the industry we have seen a structural shift in the shopping behavior of the consumer — a change that has been further accelerated by the global health crisis,” said Diane Sullivan, CEO, President and Chairman of Caleres in a statement.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

After initially launching here in 2000, it withdrew from the market in 2008, before relaunching that same year under the ownership of the Withers Group. Starbucks Australia confirmed a new way to consume take-away coffee will be created and introduced for Australians in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2023

As high inflation continues to pose a challenge for the American consumer, research shows that two-thirds of Americans plan to still spend the same or more on retail purchases in 2023. However, it’s no surprise that many of those consumers plan to prioritize shopping for bargains in-store.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, beauty brands and other companies in various retail sectors have been integrating AR technology into the consumer shopping experience since well before 2020. The first commercial use of AR is believed to have occurred in 2008. Developed by German agencies in Munich, it involved a print ad featuring an AR model of a BMW Mini.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

This collapse follows the demise of Australian furniture brand Brosa late last year – which cited declining sales and cash flow pressures – as well as heightened challenges faced by small-to-medium sized retailers that are struggling to cope with rising costs, and a slowdown in foot traffic and consumer activity. The jury is out.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2021

Years of transformation transpired in just a few months with rapid shifts in both consumer behaviors and merchant expectations for e-commerce. And how will permanently altered consumer behaviors shape online payment preferences? And consumers were not turning to their trusted brands during this critical period.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

The brand’s fifth store in Singapore, which is located in Ion Orchard, features an “enhanced shopping experience” that aims to introduce more consumers to Desigual through a new perspective on the brand. When it comes to Singapore, the brand landed in the island republic back in 2008, and later expanded to different markets.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

As the quality of living and workers’ wages reached new heights, Western brands spotted a golden opportunity and raced to set up shop in the East to reach China’s 1 billion consumers (and counting). Founded in 2012, lingerie label Neiwai (meaning ‘inside and outside’) is another direct-to-consumer label that began online.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2021

Amidst ongoing industry disruption and evolving consumer trends, we are uniquely positioned to build on our momentum and accelerate growth and profitability.”. From 2008 to 2013, Day served as the CEO of lululemon, and prior to that she spent more than 20 years at Starbucks in a variety of leadership positions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2020

Rogoff say this recession will be the worst in 100 years, making the financial meltdown of 2008 feel like a “dry run” for what‘s in store for us in the coming quarters. Right now consumers aren’t feeling too maxed out. But first let’s start with the cold hard reality. Economists like Harvard’s Kenneth S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

In fact, 51% of consumers said they would be willing to pay more for products shipped through sustainable methods, up significantly from just 15% of consumers in December 2023, according to a new survey from Radial. Here is what a number of companies are doing this Earth Day and beyond to meet the demands of consumers and the planet.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2021

Chinese consumers have a growing interest, and affinity for, Western brands and products, particularly in the luxury sector. And with current travel restrictions and concerns around the virus preventing them leaving the country, Chinese consumers are increasingly looking to purchase from Western brands online. and Europe.

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