Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008. Moreover, the inquiry will also explore emerging issues such as online shopping, technological advancements, and loyalty programs.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a result, retailers need to rethink how they attract and retain customers by looking at data not just from recent months but also from the last time shoppers felt this much economic pressure — the Great Recession of 2008-2009. How did we come out of it?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) interim report for supermarkets inquiry revealed that almost 50 per cent of consumers now ‘often’ or ‘always’ compare prices before shopping, a significant increase from 17 per cent found by the watchdog’s 2008 Grocery Inquiry.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

The retailer offers completely personalized shopping experiences driven by data science, personal styling and outfit functionality. He was the first executive hired at HauteLook in 2008 and joined Nordstrom ’s leadership following that company’s acquisition in 2011.

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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. We were Woolworths’ main cosmetic brand, so women were cruising the aisle of Woolworths and had nowhere else to shop but the grocery stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

Abercrombie & Fitch and Zappos.com have partnered to add curated Abercrombie & Fitch items to Zappos’ ecommerce shop. In Q1 2021, net sales for both Abercrombie and Hollister rose to $296 million , up 61% compared to Q1 2020 and 6% compared to Q1 2019, marking the retailer’s best Q1 performance since 2008.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2024

An application by the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association – the union for retail, fast food and warehousing workers – seeks to remove junior rates for adult employees on three key awards. Whether that justifies a significant wage discount is less clear. What’s fair?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2021

Consumer shopping habits have shifted irreversibly towards ecommerce in the past two years. These carefully designed marketplaces take the guesswork out of online shopping, providing customers with a one-stop destination for the right product in every circumstance. Why Marketplace Momentum Will Only Continue.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2024

With 30 years of executive leadership experience, including stints as CEO and president of Weight Watchers Inter n ational and the Home Shopping Network, Mindy Grossman has been through her fair share of business transformations. You need to totally build the shopping experience from the consumer backwards. It is so critical.

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Retail Bound

MARCH 4, 2025

Shopping malls were once viewed as relics of the pastcasualties of the eCommerce boom and shifting consumer habits. This blog explores why shopping malls have proven resilient, how they’re evolving, and what these changes mean for your brand. But, against the odds, malls are thriving again. The reasons are clear.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

It joins the likes of Tesco, which has profits of more than 2bn, B&Q owner Kingfisher, which surpassed 1bn in profit in 2022, and M&S in 2008. Although we’re expecting negative like-for-likes in the UK, there are still towns where we haven’t got a shop. growth in sales. growth in sales.

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A1 Retail

MARCH 31, 2025

Enotria&Coe has grown consistently across all supply channels during the past two decades, buying Wheeler Cellars in 2008, Great Western Wine now trading from its Bath shop as The Great Wine Co in 2010, and Coe Vintners in 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Advanced capabilities like buy online pick up in-store (BOPIS), ecommerce, apps that help navigate stores and outdoor pop-up shops that used to get pushed back for budgetary reasons suddenly became imperatives for stores to stay afloat. Not only did consumers change where they shop, but also what they shop for.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, research conducted by the financial services institution HSBC confirmed that as the average price of personal luxury goods increased by 52 per cent in Europe since 2019, with similar price hikes across the globe, the number of consumers shopping for these products decreased. billion market in 2023. per cent year-on-year.

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Retail Bound

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With a slew of high-impact shopping events driving consumer spending, this is your prime opportunity to maximize revenue, build brand awareness, and move products off shelves quicker than at any other time of the year. Now, let’s break down the top 4 Q4 shopping events and discuss how your brand can stand out.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Shopping used to be largely reserved for physical outlets, with ecommerce serving more of a transactional role in the consumer’s shopping journey. In a digital-first era, retailers will be challenged to increasingly replicate the unique elements of the in-person experience into the online shopping experience.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2020

Christmas needs to come early this year (and by Christmas I mean the entire holiday shopping season). 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. But first let’s start with the cold hard reality.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

The pyjama brand and its mascot Penny are set to touchdown in the United Kingdom with two bricks-and-mortar stores and a dedicated UK website just in time for the Christmas shopping period this year. This will be the first time Peter Alexander ventures outside of Australia and New Zealand since its failed entry into the US market in 2008.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the key dimensions of EuroShop 2023 is Shop Fitting, Store Design & Visual Merchandising, which is the heart of EuroShop and its largest dimension. Shopping becomes an interactive high-tech experience. It may read like a list of digital buzzwords, but these are the current and future customer relationship challenges.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. However, a 24.6% Caleres made 71.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2023

However, it’s no surprise that many of those consumers plan to prioritize shopping for bargains in-store. With the resurgence of in-person retail shopping post-pandemic, retail employers nationwide are sharing many of the same struggles and obstacles in finding talent to work to meet consumer needs and expectations.

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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. Chala outlined the timeline of resale’s rise, beginning with the 2008 recession and the resulting reboot of consumers’ mindsets about spending.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Brava Lingerie co-founder Lin Windram has been involved with the charity since forming a business friendship with a neighbouring shop owner. Najaf Mazari has a rug shop in High Street, Prahran (Melbourne), just a few doors from the first ever Brava Lingerie shop opened by myself and my daughter Maxine,” Windram told Inside Retail. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Seth joined Raymour & Flanigan full-time in 2008 after graduating from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His experience at Raymour & Flanigan has included roles in nearly all areas of the business.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2017, the company completed a similar turnaround of the Polaroid brand, selling it to Polish investor Wiaczesaw Smookowski after eight years of ownership following the brands 2008 bankruptcy.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In 2008, Cheng launched the K11 brand, a museum-retail complex that is at the nexus of art and commerce and had extended K11’s reach across retail, hospitality, offices and non-profit art education through K11 Art Foundation and K11 Craft & Guild Foundation. K11 is expected to have a total of 34 projects with a total GFA of 2.7

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As destination retailers, we have fashioned an exceptional bricks-and-mortar shopping experience in Australia, so bringing this luxuriously considered and immersive extension of our physical presence to customers in London [was a] celebrated moment for Aje.”. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2020

A 2008 study found that stores spend about $785 per week helping customers find products or checking to see if inventory is available in the backroom for a product that the customer wants but is not on the shelf. Another reason your labor costs keep increasing is because of time spent helping customers finding products.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2023

Brands can’t rest on their laurels and expect customers to keep coming back because they delivered a good experience once in 2008. More importantly, Australian consumer cohorts diverge in the expectations they have when shopping both online and offline, as well as the experiences that will win or lose their loyalty.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2024

However, the growing consumer interest in purchasing and styling workwear is not solely rooted in ethical and environmental shopping. Historically, in times of economic crisis and impending recession, business-casual takes centre stage in fashion, including during the 2008 financial crisis and the unemployment crisis that ensued until 2010.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2023

Here, Davies chats to Inside Retail about the goals and objectives behind Superdry’s seventh store opening in Australia – in Doncaster’s Westfield shopping centre – and how Replay Jeans is getting off the ground with a partnership with Melbourne Victory. It’s been in the market since 2008, and is well established. IR: On to Superdry.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2021

British fashion label, Victoria Beckham, has introduced its first knitwear collection that is end-to-end traceable from farms to shop. Founded in 2008, the Victoria Beckham brand is presented in more than 320 stores in 40 countries worldwide. The packaging and labelling use recycled poly labels and biodegradable Polybags. .

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Bespoke Hat Maker Marcel Rodrigues opened a pop-up shop at 20 Savile Row on Thursday 12 October. Founder Marcel Steyn started his career as an apprentice at Cad & The Dandy on Savile Row in 2008 where he learned the art of tailoring.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 3, 2021

Other sectors were hit as well, with OECD nations reporting April prices across the board surged in April 2021 at the highest pace since 2008. . Overall food prices surged almost 40% year-over-year, and food prices in May 2021 were 4.8% higher than a month earlier.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article highlights a few of my favorite moments in online shopping as a source of inspiration, and a challenge for all of us in the e-Commerce space to keep pushing the envelope on how we engage customers. There are many recent examples of companies in the e-Commerce world adapting their CX in innovative ways.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Additionally, the extended holiday season — with more consumers doing their shopping prior to the traditional peak selling season’s start on Black Friday — is likely encouraging some retailers to rely less on holiday hires and more on their existing staff. According to analysis from global coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas , U.S.

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