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Chinese customers spend billions on Nov. 11. Why, and what does it mean for the global retail marketplace?
Ontario must quickly create rules for cannabis stores. How the Ford government decides to regulate retailers will have a major impact on how many retailers will get into the business.
Checkout charity research suggests that it can boost sales and doesn't ward off customers who don't contribute.
As major supermarkets 'ban the bag', the spotlight is firmly on sustainability. Retailers are racing to promote their green credentials to shoppers.
To survive the crisis, fashion companies are relying on new technologies. New players, new customer experience, big data – the whole sector is changing.
Removing expiry dates should increase sales and give consumers more flexibility, but it could also increase costs.
A retail scholar explains what drives consumers to behave badly on one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
On Black Friday, November 24, outdoor retailer REI will close its stores and urge customers to #OptOutside. But a historian calls this popular campaign light green environmentalism at best.
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.
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.
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 government's deal with electricity retailers to provide simple information to customers about their discounts and bills is a welcome step, but doesn't cut to the heart of the power price issue.
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.
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.
Amazon.com and others are eager to fill the skies with drones delivering packages at all hours. Convenient, yes, but it could transform – and not in a good way – our ability to make informed choices.
Does the secret to romantic sales success actually lie in an appeal to our cynicism?
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%.
New research shows how marketers get away with making their food look and sound healthier than it really is.
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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Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Apparel, Design and Hospitality Management, North Dakota State University
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Executive Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Simon Business School, University of Rochester
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Lecturer in Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Interim Department Head and Professor of Wine and Viticulture, California Polytechnic State University
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Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin
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Jay L. Zagorsky is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of Economics and Labor-Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
