Did anyone see the international headlines a fortnight ago? “Costco Stops Selling Coca-Cola”? One of the world’s largest retailers and one o…
Did anyone see the international headlines a fortnight ago? “Costco Stops Selling Coca-Cola”? One of the world’s largest retailers and one o…
As Christmas is the focus of much of our annual shopping spend, and often that money is spent via credit/debit card, I have spent this week …
In our Asia Pac region, Australia has been a shining light during the GFC and, while New Zealand has been faring a little worse, it is still…
In the US, UK and Australia this week, sustainability and the genuine desire to lower our carbon footprint was evident at many levels. …
It was an interesting week in retailing, and in reported shopper sentiment, around the world. A number of seemingly unrelated conversations…
Store walks – known in industry parlance as “thinking standing up” – always trigger a theme based on your observations or feelings from the …
Analysts by their very nature do a good job of looking at historical numbers and then making predictions. They are a key source of informati…
Target in the US is, as in Australia and New Zealand, a mass merchant, or discount department store by description. Personally, I believe th…
This time last year, in the run up to Christmas 2008, I remember writing that there were only two mindsets among the CEO’s who lead our larg…
Headlines still mostly portray the old-fashioned adversarial view of retailers as being in a win or lose clash. The perception remains that …
We saw “whole dollar pricing” and “bright, clean and uncluttered” as a couple of the key themes emerging in retail environments globally thi…
The journey that Audi are now taking shoppers on started almost a decade ago. While much of the scene-setting I’m providing is supposition, …
