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Can Kohl’s New Merchandising Strategy Create Holiday Magic?

Retail TouchPoints

While discounts and deals will be core, the ailing department store chain is also prioritizing in-store merchandising and curation to improve the customer experience. To make finding the perfect gift even easier, Kohl’s has developed a new front-of-store experience, aptly called Gift Shop, that is curated for various holiday gifting needs.

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

Inside Retail

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Analysis: a perfect retail storm is brewing

Inside Retail

per cent increase in department stores and a 3.3 Despite some retailers reporting strong sales because of the growth in online sales, net profits declined. per cent in the 2022 fiscal year supported by record online sales, which increased by 44 per cent while net profit fell by 20 per cent.

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How Myer plans to reach $1 billion in online sales

Inside Retail

Myer’s online sales have more than doubled since John King took over running the department store in 2018, and the CEO believes they can double again to reach $1 billion in the not-too-distant future. CBD stores take a hit. CBD locations were particularly hard hit, with comparable store sales down 22.3

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Central Retail: Expansions and omnichannel drive growth

Inside Retail

billion baht, and net profit by 1.3 Among the highlights was a successful relaunch of Central Chidlom (popularly known as Central Department Store) in downtown Bangkok, with a new multi-level designer wing called Luxe Galerie. Also, the portfolio still has a lot more growth potential. For the full year, revenue grew by 5.7

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Inside Central Chidlom’s luxury makeover in Bangkok

Inside Retail

The new three-level, 8000sqm Luxe Galerie at Central Chidlom in downtown Bangkok is a nice job and does a lot to modernise a store that was beginning to flirt with obsolescence. Fifty and counting Central Chidlom, located on Phloen Chit Road near the commercial heart of the city, first opened way back in 1973.

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Analysis: Decision time looms at DJs and Myer boardrooms

Inside Retail

The viability of the two iconic department store chains, Myer and David Jones, has been seriously analysed and debated since a merger proposal by Myer was revealed in 2014. The financial collapse of traditional US and UK department stores and the impact of the pandemic has increased industry scrutiny on Myer and David Jones.