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Rags into Riches

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Jon Bird.

Tweet With 2010 on our doorstep, it’s a good time to start thinking about the influences that will affect retail in the coming decade. Over the next few weeks, I’ll point to some of the more interesting trends I’ve observed and provide examples of forward-thinking retailers who are ahead of the curve. This week I’ll [...]

How do you fight an 800lb gorilla?

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Jon Bird.

Tweet Costco rolled into Melbourne last week and Australia got its first taste of American-style value retailing on a truly grand scale. The store is 14,400 sqm of pure big box retail grunt. As reported in Inside Retailing, the pollies revelled in it, the crowds loved it, and the enthusiastic response had quite a few [...]