HK3’s Phil Whelan’s comment “everything old is new again” strikes a chord as we catch up for our weekly on air chat, this week to explore why online retail giants like Amazon are experimenting with opening physical bricks and mortar store and it all comes down to maturity and you can’t keep a good topic […]
There is a long list of household names that have vacated the retail world. Dick Smith and Masters are now on the list and others are likely to follow. New retailers are pushing out more familiar names. More household names could be set to disappear into Australian retailing history following the demise of Dick Smith this […]
The wailing and crying over the supposed death of physical retail stores seems to have been raging forever, but really it’s a recent conversation and one that is way overhyped. Obviously there is a relatively new retail player that lives inside the digital world and starting from a zero base only a decade or so […]
Remember the local fish and chip store, Chinese restaurant, pie and sauce and chicko roll? Well, they like many other cultural norms, made way for their successor the mostly American hamburger and pizza format stores which 40 years ago heralded in a new way to eat-out and a new cuisine. These store have done well […]
One of the most often asked questions I get around the future of retail is whether today’s shopping malls will still be around in the near to mid future? The answer is emphatically YES. In 2014, 40 cents out of every one (1) retail dollar in Australia was spent in a shopping mall (approx. $110 […]
Woolworth’s recently published a report on the Future of the Supermarkets complete with predictions about who their future consumers may be and the what, where, when and how of what they might want from them and this was the spark that started the chat between Rod Quinn of ABC Local’s Overnight and I. In this […]
