Tag: shopping
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Celebrate The Lunar New Year With These Unique Gifts
The Lunar New Year is an exciting time to celebrate with friends and family, reflect on the past year and look forward to the year to come! The new year started on February 1 with the first new moon of the year, transitioning from the year of the ox to the year of the tiger.…
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Instagram Introduces Shopping Via Stories
Instagram has announced a global roll out of its new shopping features in stories and the explore feed. This update will allow users to be directly linked from stories via a “tap to shop” icon, along with a new personalised channel in the explore page for shopping. This shopping feature comes from previous feature of…
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Panasonic is changing how we shop
The way we currently do supermarket shopping is set to become a thing of the past with many companies inventing technology to revolutionize the experience. In Japan, Panasonic is currently rolling out the Reji Robo, a piece of technology which completely changes how checkouts operate, even removing the need to bag items by hand. The technology works…
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Pumpkin Patch stores to close
Receivers couldn’t entice a buyer for Pumpkin Patch so all stores across Australia and New Zealand will be closed by mid-February. On January 31, 68 stores will shut down leaving 560 employees without a job. The remainder of stores will also close throughout February. Receiver Neale Jackson, of KordaMentha, said, “We have successfully traded stores through the traditional holiday…
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Best Cyber Monday deals
Despite starting out in the US, Black Friday and Cyber Monday have recently swept the world with their incredible retail discounts. Australia has embraced the shopping phenomenon with most major technology retailers now jumping on the sales bandwagon. This year, Black Friday falls on November 25th, with Cyber Monday following closely afterwards on November 28th.…
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Instagram to test new feature that allows users to shop online
The social media platform Instagram will introduce a new feature next week that allows users to shop through their news feed. The function will be called ‘Shop Now’ and will be made available in the US. Users will be able to shop from over 20 brands including Kate Spade, JackThreads and Warby Parker, which will show an in-depth…
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Contactless cards have arrived
Contactless smartphone payment systems are here and changing the way we deal with technology. Senior Director of Product Management at Google Pali Bhat told Fairfax Media that “60 per cent of Australians already make payments with a contactless card. It’s a logical cohesion that will see wallets become a thing of the past” (SMH, 2016). Gone are the…
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Are dark stores the future of Coles?
The food and liquor market is one of the highest-growth categories in online retail. This comes as no surprise considering working professionals hardly have the time to visit a grocery store. The dark store supermarket alternative eliminates the woes of congested queues, human traffic and bulky online order trolleys. Furthermore, it allows customers to simply shop from the comforts of their own home.…
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Asian tourists are spending the most
Research undertaken by the University of Technology (UTS) Business School revealed that Asian tourists visiting Sydney spend as much as 6.5 times more than other tourists. It was found that there is a huge spending capacity of Asian tourists who are in Australia as part of incentive schemes. A 2015 visitor survey from Tourism Australia…
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The Renewed Pacific Fair: Shopping Redesigned
Queensland’s Pacific fair is undergoing a $670 million renewal, which aims to be completed in mid-2016. When this shopping centre is complete it aims to be the best Australia has to offer and a world class shopping experience. The centre will come slightly short of Melbourne’s Chadstone in size but offer a selection of specialty…