Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

billion, and department stores climbed 0.4 Cafes, restaurants, and takeaways grew 2.3 per cent to $5.48 billion, while clothing, footwear and accessories increased 1.7 per cent to $3.02 per cent to $1.91 ” The post Strong boost in Australian retail sales in October, says ABS data appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

store last month , with another five in development and plans to eventually operate 50 locations in the region. Additionally, Kurt Geiger operates footwear concessions inside luxury and premium department stores in the UK, including Harrods and Selfridges , where it sells both its own and third-party brands.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Inflation has an impact on nearly every aspect of the economy, including raw material costs, wages, transportation, and, ultimately, the prices consumers pay for goods and services. Rising costs and shifts in consumer behaviors have a significant impact on the retail industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The integration will allow customers to see the availability of products at their local Bloomingdales stores while browsing their preferred brand’s website. Example of the Lucky integration. ” As parent company Macys Inc. fends off new activist investors , Bloomingdales remains a stronghold for the group.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But designing a successful retail experience doesn’t simply involve placing stores and restaurants next to the stadium. It’s essential to harness consumer and market insights to craft an experience, and the right mix of uses, to entice locals to visit the stadium district for shopping, dining and a place to live or work.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2025

SurfStitch, meanwhile, has not been able to compete with Shein and Temu, who provide cheaper options for consumers. Ginger & Smart was founded by Alexandra and Genevieve Smart in 2002 and earned a listing with department store chain David Jones.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2025

Cost-of-living pressures and economic uncertainty continued to impact consumer behaviour in April, despite spending being above last year’s levels, said Chris Rodwell, CEO of the Australian Retailers Association (ARA). Cosmetics, sports and household goods saw the highest increase at 5.3 per cent, with a 4.2 Online food sales rose by 4.5

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

In the competition for consumer dollars, stores remain a crucial part of a successful omnichannel strategy and there is significant opportunity in the current market for retailers looking to open stores and developers looking to reimagine spaces in fresh ways. The retail vacancy rate was 4.1%

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Inside Retail

MARCH 3, 2025

billion, and department stores jumped 2.9 “ Consumers bought furniture and electrical goods in earlier months to take advantage of the large discounts on offer,” said Robert Ewing, ABS head of business statistics. Clothing, footwear, accessoriesrose 4.5 per cent to $3.07 per cent to $5.58 Food climbed 3.1

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Inside Retail

MARCH 31, 2025

per cent at department stores, and 2.89 Australian Retailers Association (ARA) chief industry affairs officer Fleur Brown said the result was solid despite the continued impact of cost-of-living pressures and economic uncertainty on consumer behaviour. per cent, followed by food with a 4.08 per cent improvement. per cent uptick.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Like other department stores, Kohls has had trouble adjusting to changes in consumer shopping patterns. The retailer also will cut approximately 10% of its corporate workforce, according to the Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. Net sales for the retailers Q3 2024, which ended Nov. 2, 2024, declined 8.8%

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2025

Indian retail conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited has signed a franchise agreement with American luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue to expand its luxury retail portfolio through its subsidiary Reliance Retail, the company said in its third-quarter financial report last week.

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Inside Retail

JULY 17, 2025

At first glance, the mid-market UK retailer known for selling a bra every two seconds, Marks & Spencer, and the premium Australian department store with luxury aspirations, David Jones, would seem to be a poor fit.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Typically, consumers seek out department stores and shopping centres to get in the holiday spirit but LaManna has managed to position itself as the exception. LaManna, the 10,000sqm independent supermarket located at Essendon Fields, is rising to the Christmas occasion.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

Department stores may face large amounts of packaging materials, unsold goods and returned items, while ecommerce retailers often deal with higher volumes of cardboard boxes, bubble wrap and plastic packaging.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2024

IR : You’ve mentioned a few brands in the portfolio that are quite big in Australia; is there any consumer demographic in particular in Australia that is loving these products? NA: Well, in consumer demographics, not only talking about Australia, many of our brands have extremely healthy consumer demographics.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 15, 2025

Analysts point to a combustible mix of weaker consumer spending, tariff-driven cost pressures, and corporate belt-tightening as prime drivers of the bloodletting. That logic is amplified at legacy department-store operators like Macy’s, where real-estate costs are high and foot traffic continues to migrate online.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 22, 2025

Retail sales rose for the fourth consecutive month in April as consumer confidence in the UK improved. The uplift was driven by strong demand across most sectors, including food stores, household goods and department store retailers all reporting increased spending. Sales volumes rose 1.2% last month, up from a flat 0.1%

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2025

Its CEO Richard Stevens has seen an uptick in consumers using these tools during their offline shopping journeys. “We This new wave of highly informed consumers is resulting in other savings vehicles, like price matching, becoming more accessible.” The AI-augmented shop floor The implications of in-store AI stretch beyond resale.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2025

The consensus within the retail industry is that Nordstroms partnership deal with the Mexican retail group will improve the department store retailers chances of thriving at a time when many legacy players, like Macys, are struggling to survive. However, long-term success for Nordstrom wont come without further changes.

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Retail Dive

JUNE 24, 2025

The fashion industry experiences more returns than any other, with over two-thirds of consumers returning clothing or footwear in the past year. Dive Brief: E-commerce retailers with generous return policies have greater brand loyalty than those with stingier ones, according to a Rithum survey of 6,000 consumers released last month.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

” H&M: Delivery outpaces competitors by four days Meanwhile, H&M’s dispatch time outpaces its rivals in the low-priced department store segment by 1.4 “Consumers hate unpleasant surprises. A lot of retailers overlook how important this is.” days faster than the segment average.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Iconic denim lifestyle brand Levi’s has unveiled a unique storefront takeover – the largest of its kind in Europe – with premium London department store celebrating the campaign launch of REIIMAGINE Chapter II, featuring global icon, Beyonc.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

After acquiring the distressed department store in 2022, Boohoo Group has pivoted the once-beloved high street favourite into a new direction, reintroducing it as what it claims to be Britains leading online department store with a marketplace model. How Boohoo Group is evolving and what’s next?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

A year after the French luxury department store originally announced it would be launching its first US location, Printemps is officially opening a brick-and-mortar store in the heart of New York Citys financial district on March 21. Department stores havent had the best reputation the last few years.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2025

On April 17, Takashimaya, Japans upscale department store company, released the results for its fiscal year ending February 28. A weak Chinese economy, jittery domestic consumer confidence, and a couple of overseas stores that arent exactly setting the world on fire. per cent decline in February and a 2.5

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Printemps is one of the oldest department stores in the world, yet most Americans have never heard the name, much less know how to pronounce it. That all changed in March when the French luxury retail chain opened its first U.S. location in Manhattans financial district.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

The monetisation of retail assets has come a long way since department stores like Myer and David Jones first sold physical space within their stores. With the power to unlock revenue growth beyond sales, retail media is rapidly evolving into a multi-billion-dollar sector.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With consumer sentiment and discretionary spend down, many retailers are already facing reduced profit margins and a higher cost of doing business, making hefty discounting for prolonged periods a particularly costly exercise. LSKD’s approach has also garnered the attention of consumers and its community. “We

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The consumer-driven experience includes the original control rooms having been fully restored and transformed into an events space and an all-day bar concept, with its original dials and controls on display,” she added. Vulic calls it a lifestyle destination and “one of the best examples of adaptive reuse”.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 8, 2025

Retail Consultant | Published author | Visiting lecturer Mass brand premiumisation has emerged as a pivotal trend in recent years, with brands striving to secure higher-value market segments while retaining their broad consumer appeal. Above all, it serves as a means to enhance their market positioning.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Premier’s Apparel Brands were successful by maintaining a pretty clear brand positioning, managing a streamlined portfolio well and keeping that aligned with consumer preferences – I think they embraced a strong omnichannel strategy overall,” shared Gray. “I Hats off to Myer.”

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Retail Gazette

JULY 8, 2025

The department store chain scored 86.7 The score puts John Lewis ahead of its rival M&S, which had previously overtaken the department store chain at the start of the year. out of 100 in the bi-annual customer satisfaction index, ranking it third across all sectors and clinching the top spot by any retailer.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Around 2019, my design team and I started to look around to see if there were any opportunities to create our own consumer brand,” he said. E-commerce was booming in China at the time, and the team experimented with several small brands at lower price points that were aimed at consumers surfing sites like Taobao.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The term 1-per-center refers to the wealthiest 1 per cent of consumers. Which is why Mytheresa North American president Heather Kaminetsky said the ultimate secret to catering to the 1 per cent consumer is offering them the one thing money can’t buy: time. “I What is the 1-per-cent customer looking for?

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Retail Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

By adopting modular systems, retailers can demonstrate a commitment to environmental responsibility—something that resonates with modern consumers. Fashion stores regularly update their window displays and in-store layout using modular frameworks and interchangeable backdrops.

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Inside Retail

MAY 27, 2025

In an industry where 86 per cent of consumers are willing to pay more for a great experience, yet only 22 per cent feel that retailers truly understand their needs, the gap between expectation and execution is massive. In 2025, retail is definitely a battleground where the customer experience (CX) can make or break a brand.

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