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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

With customers continuing to seek more value as cost-of-living pressures bite, Wesfarmers’ Kmart Group is set to benefit from shifting consumer demand, and an increasingly strong value proposition. Labour, leases, and clearance stock So, what are those levers?

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Rainy summers and autumn heatwaves, are retail sales seasons dead?

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette explores whether the traditional sales seasons are dead – and what retailers are doing to overcome increasingly unseasonable weather. There has to be a clear reason to buy so early in the season” “We don’t see the big ‘seasonal switch’ being as clear cut for the consumer as it once was,” he explains.

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. A new breed of concept phone store are popping up in a bid to rival tech giants Apple and Samsung. According to managing director of commercial Bridget Lea, the format welcomes in “a new EE” focusing on “fulfilling all our consumer tech needs”.

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Sustainable Fashion: Elvis & Kresse

Retail Insider

The company used designs informed by shop floor staff at luxury department stores who told her what designs sold well every year, not just one particular year. There is a strange belief around ethical consumption that products should be at a price that low income consumers can afford otherwise that is of itself in some way unethical.

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How charity shops became cool

Retail Gazette

Such is the popularity of the format that the UK’s first multi-charity department store , Charity Super.Mkt, opened earlier this year in Brent Cross shopping centre in London. Retailer tie-ups Charity shops hold appeal to retailers as well as consumers, and offer a way to improve their sustainable credentials.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 275 – DTC with Mickey Drexler

Retail Geek

In this broad ranging interview, we cover his distinguished career, his opinion about the recent direct to consumer trends, and much more. He turned down Steve Jobs first request to serve on the Apple Board of Directors, and how he later helped Steve and Ron design the Apple retail store. His cameo on Breaking Bad.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Digital in-store heats up, QR codes make a comeback Yes. Retailer offers viable health alt insurance option to consumers. Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now.