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How Brands can Deliver More Value to Shoppers in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

In general, retailers are experimenting with a variety of promotional components to convey value, reduce the actual cost of products and win the battle for the customers’ wallet. They may also consider other triggers, such as individualized promotions based on customers’ historical average order values.

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Sweaty palms and bargain bins: Why consumers are flocking to dollar stores

Inside Retail

Discount stores are booming in post-Covid Europe as price-sensitive consumers seek out bargains amid inflation and the devastating impacts of the pandemic. Much of its focus is on what it calls “attractive discount markets” such as the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Spain. All consumers love a good bargain.

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Extended Back-to-School Season Spotlights Need for Tactical Markdowns

Retail TouchPoints

Among the 86% of consumers that still had shopping to do, 45% said they were waiting for the best deals to complete their BTS purchases, and that search for bargains is another key headline this year. It will come down to how they decide to do promotional pricing to liquidate some of that merchandise. they spent in 2023.

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Category Insights Report: Dollar Stores Redefine Themselves with Enhanced Merchandising and Mobile Apps

Retail TouchPoints

Once largely associated with lower-income households, dollar stores are now becoming retail staples even for more affluent households, inspiring retailers in these categories to invest more heavily in marketing, merchandising and technology innovation that will help them differentiate. That all creates positive momentum for these retailers.”

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Good. Different? Aldi follows rivals on self-service and e-commerce

Inside Retail

“Anecdotal feedback from the first day of the trial was overwhelmingly positive with more than half of our customers opting to use the new Self-Checkouts,” Robert Eichfeld, store operations director at Aldi Australia, said. They could lose that excitement and theatre that’s created on those Special Buys days with the big lines out the front.

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Meet the new online outlet mall targeting Gen Z and millennial consumers

Inside Retail

A new online shopping site is set to launch in Australia this month that aims to update the traditional outlet mall experience for a Gen Z and millennial audience. In contrast, TheDOM.com plans to provide an “inspirational” and “elevated” shopping experience through its site design and tone of voice.

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How Kmart, The Party People are cashing in on Halloween

Inside Retail

According to ARA CEO Paul Zahra, Halloween has grown in Australia on the back of the ongoing globalisation of retail and retail promotions. He believes that the trend is similar to Black Friday, which started as an American shopping tradition, before becoming popular in Australia over time. In the 1980s, no one was doing it.