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The four Cs – convenience, choice, competitive prices and COVID-19 – will decide the retail battle and how it affects the structure and function of our cities.
Quiet hour is a strategy aimed at making retail spaces more inclusive for people who struggle with sensory overload, but they’re not the only ones who welcome a pause in the assault on their senses.
CBD retailers were already struggling before the pandemic. The contrast in fortunes with suburban retail activity is stark, and there are good reasons to think the shift could be permanent.
City by city, the data on CBD visitors vary with the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions. But none of the CBDs has recovered former activity levels, and some might never fully recover.
A retail expert explains why brick-and-mortar brands will continue to thrive in the age of e-commerce.
If Australia follows international trends and allows supermarkets to open pharmacies, what are the effects on neighbouring pharmacies? And when does running a business mean health care suffers?
BP is offering what David Jones wants. David Jones is offering what BP needs.
Marketers once liked to think they could virtually steer people through shops and malls. But it appears shoppers’ movements, possibly driven by primal instincts, aren’t so easily directed.
Businesses are weighing up the costs of queuing and using innovative ways to minimise these costs by doing away with queues.
What is lacking is Myer’s heritage, and the need for this to be carefully reframed and updated for the present day.
Urban retail space is being transformed yet again. Predictions of the demise of physical retailing in the face of online competition overlook its resilience over two centuries of disruptive innovations.
Retailers are banking on some of our behavioural and emotional traits to get us to sign up to subscription boxes.
A retail scholar explains what drives consumers to behave badly on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Department stores created many of the familiar aspects of modern retailing, from off-the rack clothing to loyalty cards. But much of their business has been taken by others.
The rapid penetration of internet technologies in Africa provides hope for e-commerce’s continued growth. Potential online stores need to understand what draws or pushes customers away.
Moves by major to supermarkets to only offer plastic bags for a charge could make these businesses more than a million dollars a year, but it may only have a small impact on the environment.
After a lot of hype, it looks like Amazon will finally come to Australian shores. But it won’t be the end of Aussie retail.
Unlike vision or touch, sound is much more difficult to control or avoid; music in particular spills across thresholds and intrudes into situations where it is unwelcome.
A mix of economic unease and fears of the growth of online shopping is pushing retailers to offer ever-steeper discounts, but there’s a better strategy to make it through the holidays in the black.
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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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Director, UWA Public Policy Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, North Dakota State University
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Associate Dean and Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, Adelaide University
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Professor, College of Business, University of Sharjah
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Executive Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Simon Business School, University of Rochester
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Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Director: School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Visiting Research Academic, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
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Research Officer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University