Another retail CEO pressured into a popularity contest of who’s more important, his shareholders or his customers? Sure, I know their “first priority is to the shareholder”, but when the customers are happy so is the shareholders right? In my opinion, retail experience eats old sales per square metre for breakfast and I’ll tell…
Well, tomorrow is the final day of Inside Retail – Festival of Ideas, and I must say it’s been two exciting days of learning, innovation and really inspiring speakers. As the founding director of Retail Rockstars, I have the privilege of working with some of the best thought leaders and entrepreneurs in Australia…which I must say…
Retail marketing is changing. Traditional push advertising such as TV ads, radio, press, catalogues and email campaigns are offering retailers less and less spikes in sales and visitation. It almost seems as if everything is against retailers. Consumers want education, they want entertainment, they want personalisation, they want enlightenment. With the increase in online…
Big Stores Have a Lot to Offer Retail niching is super powerful there’s no doubt. However, what we are debating here is not a niche retailer versus a department type store, but rather a small footprint store versus a big store. While a niched retailer can boast a targeted product line, which allows a…
Masters closing down was pretty significant for Australia, with a lot of things going against them from the start. Probably the largest and most evident was the fact that consumers already had an established hardware offering and Masters failed to deliver any differentiation to what Bunnings had already been delivering. However, another huge mistake…
The silly season has truly arrived. I spent most of yesterday ducking in and out of shops for the latest and greatest gifts for beloved family and friends. I already took a few snaps yesterday with the idea of sharing my thoughts on retailers doing Christmas well this season but then this morning, like a…
As stories about the world’s first KitchenAid UK Experience store hits our feeds this week, I can’t help getting excited…but it also makes me chuckle a little. The retailer side of me would secretly love some state-of-the-art FBI surveillance software to monitor KitchenAid’s retail meetings. While I love their products, a small part of me would…
I’ve just finished watching Brad Bird’s movie, Tomorrowland, onboard a 747 heading from L.A. to Brisbane. What was great about this film was the beautiful story of hope and how dreamers of the world (whether in Tomorrowland or here and now) make the biggest and most positive impacts on all our lives. It’s a…
You probably never think about it much, as we almost take our tidy, machine driven lives for granted now. The convenience of ovens, dishwashers and kitchen gadgets are now just part of our lives. If we’re honest – it’s been a long time since we’ve had to really work “hard” at preparing meals and cleaning the…
