Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Why would the owners of Selfridges, generally considered to be the world’s best department store, decide to sell the business? To a far greater extent than most other department stores, Selfridges has embraced an experiential retail strategy that many industry leaders see as key to the sector’s survival. billion (AU$3.72

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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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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. In-store, we increase our staffing levels, with extra team members focused on assisting customers in stocking shelves promptly to keep up with demand.

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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

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 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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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. It also provided customers with more time to shop these deals. This presents a predicament for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. The spring and early summer was an optimistic time for many consumers who finally emerged from lockdowns looking to refresh their wardrobes and find items suited for smaller local outings during the warmer months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The holiday season brings a surge in shopping, both in-store and online. 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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Much of the forecasting for this year’s holiday shopping has focused on its shortness: the quirk of the 2024 calendar that has just 27 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. But in truth, the holiday shopping season has actually been getting longer, not shorter, for several years now.

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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 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. Unlike its other locations, the Printemps New York store will not have shop-in-shops.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Australias department stores are at a crossroads. Once the go-to for everything from fashion to homewares, theyre now struggling to stay relevant in a world of online shopping, specialty retailers, and shifting consumer habits. In September 2024, department-store sales fell by 0.5 So how did we get here?

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Recent research has revealed that luxury Australia retailers aren’t doing enough to capture the attention of, and drive consumer spending by, migrants of Asian background and heritage. In order to do so effectively, she stressed the importance of understanding the various factors and intricacies that inform their consumer behaviour.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

In the landscape of global commerce, few sectors evoke as much intrigue and promise as the consumer goods market in China. With higher than expected growth , a burgeoning middle class, and evolving consumer preferences, China stands at the forefront of the retail revolution. per cent and 6 per cent respectively. Two thirds (66.3

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

November and December holiday sales average around 19% of total retail sales, per the NRF , and this share can be even higher for some department stores and specialty retailers. In many ways, the same trends we see in consumers’ Q4 shopping behaviors mirror their TV viewership. Per Adobe Analytics , consumers spent $11.3

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

D:R Consumers are now looking for a transformed shopping experience and ways to express themselves through the products they buy. What does this look like in terms of design, and how does this differ from the traditional department store? D:R What does the digitization of shopping look like in a luxury high-end store?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million people plan to shop between Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday in 2022, representing 69% of all holiday shoppers, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Analytics. Black Friday is once again the top day to shop, with 114.9 An estimated 166.3 billion , compared with $28.1

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The Midland Gate shopping centre in Perth has attracted the interest of Hong Kong-based alternative investment firm PAG, which partnered with Australian property syndication company Fawkner Property to purchase the asset for about $465 million. It also houses an eight-screen Ace Cinemas complex.

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2024

The long-anticipated deal between Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus could create the ultimate department store behemoth at a time when legacy players are facing increased competition from luxury e-commerce companies and a new generation of high-end brands blending premium products with immersive experiences. billion deal.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2021

In KPMG’s Responding to consumer trends in the new reality report, our research details findings from 75,000 consumer survey responses taken over four months, from May to September 2020, across 12 countries. We will explore the four key themes emerging from our research and how retailers need to respond to the changed consumer.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

Traditional shopping malls are poised for a dynamic transformation, presenting attractive real estate opportunities as more spaces become vacant and accessible. In any effort to adaptively reuse or reposition a shopping mall, a significant challenge lies in dispelling the perception of a suburban mall atmosphere.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the driving force behind a new era of hyper-personalisation, efficiency and sustainable retail experiences, its impact on the way we shop cannot be understated. And how will it shape the way we shop? Today’s consumers are craving a truly unique shopping experience. And one of the foremost concerns is security.

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Retail Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In response to higher costs, shoppers will spend more time looking for deals this season, according to an ICSC survey.

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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. We didn’t want it to be transactional; there are plenty of beautiful places to shop in the city that are transactional, but we wanted to bring back the human touch.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The holiday shopping season seems to get bigger every year. The introduction of ecommerce has allowed consumers to shop the big sales from the comfort of their own home, avoiding the crowds and offering increased convenience and variety. Holiday shopping isn’t cancelled. In 2019, Black Friday online sales totaled $5.4

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Shopping is about more than just a transaction, as evidenced by our inaugural global feature on the ‘Most desirable shopping precincts’. Home to Apple’s London Campus, a 2229sqm food hall and a glass chimney lift, Battersea Power Station also has housing and hundreds of shops located in its historic turbine halls.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

With new applications on the horizon, AI is set to play an ever growing role in improving not only customer experience, but also store efficiency and operations. Whether it’s a small boutique or a major department store chain, all businesses can harness the potential of this powerful technology.

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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

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 That’s where we make shopping easy for them.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Social commerce and livestream shopping in particular continues to pick up steam in the U.S., With its increased customer engagement, partnership opportunities and ample “social proof,” livestream shopping offers an attractive new strategy for today’s retailers. For younger consumers, this is an extension of the way they behave online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

This retail renaissance is not just a return to traditional shopping spaces but also signifies a shift in the shoppers’ culture, expectations and behaviors. The move toward experiential shopping is vital in bringing people back to physical retail spaces, creating an emotional connection that can’t be found while online shopping.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. But while these initiatives sound promising, the question remains: can the department store chain truly adapt to the needs of the modern-day consumer?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Cinema, tick.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2021

Sephora is continuing its move away from malls with the announcement of the largest store expansion in its 21-year history in the U.S. More than 260 new stores are slated to open this year, including 60 freestanding locations and 200 shop-in-shops inside Kohl’s department stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 22, 2022

The CallisonRTKL 2022 Forecast reveals how shopping trends favoring convenience and technologies that ease decision-making for purchases are shaping the future of physical retail spaces — including retail’s role in the “15-minute city” concept and the repurposing of mall spaces. The blend of experiences is critical.

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