New stores based on the business of personal shoppers for Chinese clients are capitalising on the country’s emerging middle class.
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Johannesburg’s central business district is developing into a major cross border shopping hub, servicing the broader sub-Saharan region and has a potential to grow even further.
High streets are being taken over in a battle between specialty cafés and the
mega chains.
From the sounds of some brands’ marketing, you may be forgiven for believing that bespoke shoes are just a footstep away.
Victoria’s proposed ban on single-use plastic bags is a step forward, but what about all the other unnecessary packaging? A truly effective waste policy should offer a comprehensive plan for packaging.
The company has made the world flat (packed).
Dave Lewis has dragged the supermarket clear of an accounting scandal. Now for the hard bit …
It can be much easier to develop a new product than to actually get people to try it, even for big established brands. Where did launches for products like Crystal Pepsi go wrong?
Retailers should design online strategies to fit their desired customers’ characteristics.
Retailers are starting to realise the benefit of combining online and in-store shopping. And by encouraging you to click first and collect later, these businesses are saving on a number of costs.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is stuck, according to the economic evidence, it has to raise rates but it also should cut.
Disabled parking? Check. Disabled toilets? Check. But what about accessible supermarket shelves?
The economics of the money-back guarantee can work in retailers’ favour, in certain circumstances.
The success of the plastic bag ban announced by Australia’s big two supermarkets will hinge on whether they can persuade customers to change an engrained behaviour - without annoying them.
Online search ads are big business. Retailers have to work hard to compete for visibility in Google’s online searches as the company faces trouble in the European Union over its Shopping site.
Watch out for booming burger prices in barbecue season.
What the lessons of failed high street brands mean as M&S finally makes a big move.
The minimum wage is rising in many parts of Canada, but it masks the impact of seismic changes to the agriculture, food and retail industries brought about by new technologies.
Australian retailers aren’t efficient enough to compete with Amazon on price, and that’s before we factor in Amazon’s other businesses.
While retailers, airlines and many other companies are embracing self-service, the numbers show it isn’t an easy win.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Professor, College of Business, University of Sharjah
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Director, UWA Public Policy Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Industry fellow, Graduate School of Business, Deakin University
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business, University of New Brunswick
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and Director of Research, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Retail Studies, University of Stirling
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Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University