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.
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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.
Research shows consumers value speed when it comes to shopping. Australian retailers need to react or they will lose.
As South Africa prepares to introduce a national minimum wage, a new study shows that it will have a varied impact. Some parts of the economy are likely to be negatively affected.
For consumers of Australia’s retail sector, choice and convenience will continue to emerge. For incumbents unable to deliver on these outcomes, the future is bleak.
The Fair Work Commission’s latest decision to cut certain Sunday and public holiday penalty rates continues a tradition of undervaluing young workers.
New analysis of the behaviour of petrol retailers in Perth over a period of five years shows how tacit collusion caused prices to increase by up to 50%.
The upmarket store is reining in expansion but doubling down on value-added for its core clients.
Southern African economies need more organised and sustainable measures to increase the participation of emerging suppliers in supermarket value chains. This will help economic transformation.
Australian supermarkets businesses have relied on management talent from the UK but perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere.
Two High Street titans look like they are travelling different paths, but watch out for trouble in 2017.
Top contributors
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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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
