Australia Retail Market
Gary Martin: Supermarkets check out on frazzled staff and customers
They arrived on the retail scene with promises to cart away customer queues, reduce inconvenient price checks over the store’s public address system and eliminate the need for checkout chitter-chatter.
Cotton On profits dip amid surge into overseas markets
Cotton On, one of the country’s largest fashion retailers, has continued its relentless expansion overseas, opening more than 100 new stores outside Australia in the 2023 financial year.
Rate hike looms as immigration delivers retail boost
A record spike in immigration has contributed to the biggest growth in retail turnover since January as the nation spent up big at department stores in September, increasing the odds that the Reserve Bank will be forced to lift interest rates next Tuesday.