Next time you withdraw money from a hole in the wall, consider singing a rendition of happy birthday. For on June 27, the Automated Teller Machine (or ATM) celebrates its half century. Fifty years ago, the first cash machine was put to work at the Enfield branch of Barclays Bank in London. Two days later, […]
Aldi is Australia’s largest ski wear retailer. Australia’s grocery market is worth $102 billion. Australian now grocery shop twice a week buying fewer and fresher items against the large single shop of only a decade ago, are all fascinating snapshots of Australia’s supermarket scene today and predictors of where next for this sector and a […]
Jumping straight out of the world of science fiction robots seems to be making a mad dash to take over our lives and our jobs. Everywhere we look there’s another story of robots in the workplace, drones in our skies, machines driving our cars and jobs that are being lost to our mechanical brothers, but […]
The new economic normal, 3 Australian state elections, peek a boo panels in women’s fashion, 364,997 new Australians added to our population and super-foods freekah and teff were just some of the 2014 trends I chatted about with Kate O’Toole of ABC Local radio national in our look at what trends I have predicted for […]
[wpvideo YNsYAKoF] If you’re going to ask me what the tourism industry needs to do to keep improving, then part of the answer has to be to get more social. At this week’s Tasmanian Tourism conference I outlined that one of the most important things tourism operators can do to remain relevant into the future […]
Tomorrow’s retail is decidedly different from what we have been used to. The first large format supermarket in Australia launched in the early 1960’s and caused a revolution and an outcry as we questioned what it meant for the local milk bar and strip shopping centres. Fifty years on, replace supermarkets with online shopping and […]
