RETAIL INDUSTRY ADVICE BULLETINS - RETAIL
TECHNOLOGY UPDATES
Retail ‘Needle’ 19th October 2009; Retail Pointers for ‘improving’ times (53)………?
CEO Prompt
Retailing to the end of January 2010 unpredictable!
Review Sales / Profit / Fixture Return and Stock Levels
especially risk product - stock essentials daily…..?
This weeks Sharp Points!
Have you identified your first dead
stock cuts?
If not why not!
Are you prepared for Christmas
Shrinkage?
Your thieves are……!
ARA Webinars to educate retailers on the new Fair Work legislation
Speed sells on the
Internet!
How fast is your Website – customers have no patience?
SONY – AMAZON encouraging
self-publishing?
Does this affect Book Retailing…?
This Week’s Green Notes 19th October 2009
Wal-Mart sets Green Retailing Standards!
Will Australian and New Zealand Retailers follow?
To comment on
Sustainable Retailing in Australia and New Zealand
email Sustainable Retailing
2009.
We recommend that Australian and New Zealand retailers who want to reduce costs
by adopting world’s
best practice sustainable retailing practices get updates from
GreenBiz.com
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Current Retail Sector Issues
ACCC and the Rudd Government getting serious about Retail
Competition – about time!
Restrictive lease covenants out – first stage; now for real competition in
retail space availability?
Rubbery ABS retail sales numbers - the answer Monthly Category Sales already
provided by some
Australian Shopping Centre Groups
Harmonised Retail Tenancy Reform and Harmonised Retail Trading Hours and Awards
and
Australian retail competition anti-trust Legislation?
The Australian small retail sector demands competition changes – Harmonised
Retail Lease Legislation Reform
via COAG
Open Letter to State Premiers – Minister for Competition and Small Business
Craig Emerson – the ACCC
ARA in support…!
The Australian small retail sector demands competition changes –
Harmonised Retail Lease Legislation Reform
via COAG
Open Letter to State Premiers – Minister for Competition and
Small Business Craig Emerson – the ACCC
ARA in support…!
Retail Award delay – is this a
Pyrrhic
victory?
What is really needed is Harmonised Trading Hours and Awards –
NOW!
Without the combined Trading Hours and Awards changes, Australian
retailers’ and their customers will be the losers
ARA warns on interest rate increases!
We
have for sometime - and asked for a review of the RBA Mandate!
Australian retailers need time to recover – no interest rate rise before
February 2010
Australian Retail Trading Hours and Awards – a mess!
Gross Shopping Centre Leases - Gross Inaction - Gross Urgency
Big Retailers Expanding or Just Mopping Up More Market Share?
Australian Retail Sector Association Consolidation - URGENT
Harmonised Four Pillar Retail Lease Legislation Reform through COAG
The Blacktown (retail competition) amendment comments
New South Wales Retail Planning Submission
ACCC Creeping Acquisitions plus Obligation to Divest Report.
Australian Trading Hours and Awards
RBA New Mandate for Australia’s Retail Sector
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Retail Technology and The Supply Chain
How to ‘buy’ 2009 retail hardened IT (Information Technology) and Supply Chain
solutions to drive profit growth with less costs.
Embedded CAM (Communication Advantage Management) the key driver……
20th Century POS (Point of Sale) = 21st Century POC (Point
of Communication)
Retail RFID the Benefits the Truth the Myths the Reality
Some Useful Links
Supply Chain EDI 20 years young - still not widely adopted; a retail technology
sector industry disgrace!
It is our intention to blow the Retail IT and Supply Chain EDI smoke screens
away - ‘Get rid of paper’
Preparing for
RFID
and
QR
bar-codes….?
Don’t be snowed by the experts!
Website - absolutely for Australian and New Zealand Retailers NOW!
Repeat Articles
How to ‘buy’ for summer – Christmas 2009 – 10 Guidance Articles
It is not what or how you ‘sell’; it is how you ‘buy’ matters……!
‘Retail Elephants’ are dancing and ‘Retail Ants’ are dying..?
Retail Sector Competition Reform now under Craig Emerson Minister for Small
Business…?
GOOD MOVE!
Australia’s Giant Supermarkets - have they become too powerful?
ACCC investigation into anti-competitive shopping centre leases – only part of
the story!
It is hoped that this investigation receives the full support of the Minister
for Competition and Small Business Craig Emerson.
Update
Taking care of (retail) business is tough love!
Saturday’s Australian article ascribed to
Craig Emerson ‘Taking care of
(small business) is tough love’ - REALLY
Don’t expect the 1000’s of small retailers’ and their staff to support the Rudd
Government at the next election if true.
Update
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