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With the retail industry struggling, the need to lure people into spending has never been greater.
A retail scholar explains what drives consumers to behave badly on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
Holiday retail sales may boom this year – and the lion’s share will not be online purchases. Yet brick-and-mortar retail stores are facing heavy internet competition.
They engage with your senses and subconscious.
Will the rest of the world catch up with a trend which encourages gift buying for yourself?
New stores based on the business of personal shoppers for Chinese clients are capitalising on the country’s emerging middle class.
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.
Top contributors
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Interim Director, UWA Public Policy Institute; Associate Professor & Programme Co-ordinator (Masters of Public Policy), The University of Western Australia
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Professor, College of Business, Zayed University
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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Industry fellow, Graduate School of Business, Deakin University
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Professor, Monash University
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Omar H. Fares is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in the Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan 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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Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in International Business & Strategic Management, The University of Melbourne
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Reader in Consumer Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
