5 years after pandemic lockdowns, is retail back to normal?
Retail Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
Stores are open, inventory is flowing and inflation is down. But today’s uncertainty and destabilization are making consumers anxious.
Retail Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
Stores are open, inventory is flowing and inflation is down. But today’s uncertainty and destabilization are making consumers anxious.
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
Each generation has its distinctive behaviours, and it is imperative for retailers to understand how they make purchasing decisions. The Australia Post eCommerce Report 2025 broke down the shopping habits, preferences and values that will define each generation’s spending into the next year and beyond. According to Gary Starr, Australia Posts executive GM of parcel, post, and e-commerce services, retailers still need to understand the distinct preferences of different generations.
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Intelligence Node
MARCH 24, 2025
The eCommerce market is more competitive than ever before, and by 2025, eCommerce sales worldwide are expected to cross $7.4 trillion. With millions of online stores, standing out is a. The post Guide to Product Listing Pages and How to Optimize Them appeared first on Blog.
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
The international success of prominent K-pop artists such as BTS, Blackpink, and Stray Kids has catalysed unprecedented levels of consumer engagement, resulting in expanded market opportunities for merchandising. Consumer demand has evolved beyond conventional music purchases to encompass a diverse range of products, including limited-edition collectibles, branded apparel, and beauty product collaborations.
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Category Management is a cornerstone of a successful retail strategy. While it promotes collaboration between manufacturers and retailers to optimize category performance, challenges persist in its effective implementation due to hurdles in communication and collaboration across teams and partners, and more. In this guide, we outline five essential strategies for success in 2025 that will touch on all the essential pieces of a successful strategy and implementation.
Retail Gazette
MARCH 24, 2025
Co-op is price matching Aldi on over 100 everyday essentials for its members in stores and online, marking the retailer’s biggest ever value campaign. The initiative will see six million of the convenience store chains members access lower prices on own-branded items such as fresh fruit, milk, eggs, meat and bread. The new Aldi price match promise will join Co-ops existing member prices proposition and takes the retailers total investment into lowering its prices to almost 170m over the la
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
South Korea-based athleisure brand Fila has posted higher sales and profit for the last fiscal year, driven by the strong performance of its US golf subsidiary. The companys consolidated revenue rose 6.5 per cent to $4.6 billion in FY24, while operating profit soared 18.9 per cent to $390 million. The results were mainly driven by the US golf subsidiary Acushnet Holdings where sales rose 7.8 per cent.
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Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
The Iconic has halved its standard delivery time in Melbournes metro area, reducing it from four to just one to two days. The e-commerce platform attributed the improvement to strengthened partnerships with logistics providers and upgrades to its service model, ensuring faster and more efficient transportation from its Sydney-based fulfilment centre.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Temu is looking to grab market share in the U.S. and is seemingly hiring people from Amazon and Walmart.
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
Lifestyle brand Miniso closed the year with revenue reaching nearly $3.72 billion. Founder, chairman and CEO Guofu Ye credited the results with continuous growth in China and rapid overseas expansion. The companys gross profit rose 34 per cent year over year to US$1.67 billion, while operating profit increased 17.6 per cent to US$722.4 million. Revenue from our Miniso brand in Mainland China saw a 10.9 per cent year-over-year increase, sustaining double-digit growth on top of 2023s 36.2 per cent
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Dairy Queen has been in business for nearly nine decades.
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Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
Premium Australian fashion brand Leo Lin credits its impressive 225 per cent year-on-year sales growth to its key US retailers, which include Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus. Its head of brand, Laura Good, believes that Leo Lins lack of flagship stores has served the brand well, promoting agility and those successful multi-brand retail partnerships.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Sam's Club believes a grazing experience is the way to go for Easter meals.
Retail Gazette
MARCH 24, 2025
Tesco has named its first specialist social media agency Uncovered in a bid to create engaging, high-volume social-first content. The supermarket giant has drafted in the social-direst creative agency as it aims to strengthen its social media strategy and increase its influence on TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms, reported The Grocer. Were focused on strengthening our social media strategy, and we are excited to be working with Uncovered to produce new content that we hope will be engaging
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Hyundai has announced a $20 billion investment as part of an onshoring effort.
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Rangeme
MARCH 24, 2025
New York-based distributor Hey You faced a unique challenge. The company represents approximately two dozen emerging brands spanning the food and beverage as well as health and beauty care categories, and provides them with an array of services to ensure they are ready to do business with U.S. retailers. At the same time, it can offer retail buyers creative solutions that include multiple brands and leverage its distribution and merchandising capabilities.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Starbucks is trying to reestablish itself as a community coffeehouse where people want to sit and stay.
Inside Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
The Franchise Council of Australia has welcomed the commencement of the new regulatory framework for the franchise sector from April 1. It couldnt do much else, given the parlous state of its finances and influence after two particularly turbulent years. The sector has been under the political, regulatory and media spotlight since 2018, when the Federal Parliament established an inquiry into the franchise sector after damaging scandals involving 7-Eleven, Retail Food Group and Pizza Hut.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
The Whole Foods location is in the trendy King's Road district.
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Cisco Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
Cisco and the UK AI Security Institute partnered with NIST to release the latest update to the Adversarial Machine Learning Taxonomy.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
Walmart has dropped its latest beauty brand additions so shoppers can put a spring in their daily care routines.
Retail Gazette
MARCH 24, 2025
Three in five shoppers believe that the UK economy is worsening, leading financially secure consumers to cut back their spending, according to KPMG UK. The amount of people who felt the UK economy was worsening increased by 15 percentage points in the last three months to 58%. However, 55% of shoppers said they currently felt financially secure, making it two percentage points lower than the previous quarter.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
McDonald's limited-edition Minecraft Meal joins the fandoms of the legendary restaurant and game.
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Retail Customer Experience
MARCH 24, 2025
Retailers face mounting challenges as consumer expectations rise. But theres good news. Small, strategic interventions at key moments in the customer journey can have a significant impact on your business.
Retail Wire
MARCH 24, 2025
23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and users are urged to delete their data.
Retail Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
The home improvement retailer announced the return of its annual Springfest event, which features its latest owned brand, Lowe’s Essentials.
Cisco Retail
MARCH 24, 2025
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an integral part of our daily lives, companies like Cisco are leading the charge in developing AI-driven solutions. Policymakers, meanwhile, are grappling with how to keep up, particularly as businesses integrate AI into their products and services.
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Retail Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
Over the holiday quarter, sales fell and losses widened, but comps rose for the first time in over two years.
Shopping Center
MARCH 24, 2025
Exton, Pa. JLL Capital Markets has brokered the $34 million sale of Exton Square, a 990,000-square-foot super-regional shopping center located in the Philadelphia suburb of Exton. Abrams Realty &… The post JLL Brokers $34 Million Sale of Shopping Center in Exton, Pennsylvania appeared first on Shopping Center Business.
Retail Dive
MARCH 24, 2025
The big-box retailer will open or remodel at least 45 fueling centers this year amid plans to reach 450 sites across its network.
Shopping Center
MARCH 24, 2025
Wood River, Ill. Broad Reach Retail Partners has sold Wood River Plaza, a 65,838-square-foot shopping center located in Wood River, approximately 15 miles northeast of downtown St. Louis. Broad… The post Broad Reach Retail Partners Sells 65,838-Square-Foot Shopping Center in Metro St. Louis appeared first on Shopping Center Business.
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