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Brian Walker I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his...

“A tale of two cities” is how the council’s hand-picked retail doctor has described Bendigo’s ailing central business district. The City of Greater Bendigo brought Brian Walker to town on Thursday to gauge the state of business in Bendigo and while he lauded precincts...

“Walls are hot right now, but I was into them long before Trump made it cool,” Banksy You may have heard this week, British graffiti artist Banksy – famous for never revealing his identity – has opened a hotel… in Bethlehem. The Walled Off Hotel is nestled against the...

Howards Storage World has plans to “get rid of the old to make way for the new”, launching a 70% off sale after announcing the identity of its new owner. In a statement, the retailer revealed that former Sportland Group executive Enayat Ghiasi has bought the business’...

German retail giant Kaufland is set to arrive on Australian stores, and one expert believes it could bring Aldi’s biggest rival, Lidl, along with it. The big-box has established an Australian website and is hiring for a number of management positions, including a...

SAP has released a new range of cloud products based on a microservices architecture, offering new capabilities for order configuration, pricing, quoting, order orchestration and subscription billing. SAP Hybris Revenue Cloud is an extension of the company’s customer...

‘We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths’ – Walt Disney The element of surprise as a part of retail theatre is increasingly become a unique component of the customer engagement...

The brand new ICC Sydney at Darling Harbour will be filled with the who’s who of franchising at the Franchising & Business Opportunities Expo from Saturday 25 – Sunday 26th March. Now in its 30th year, this enterprising event offers visitors a forum to compare and...

Camera got them images Camera got them all Nothing’s shocking Showed me everybody “Ted, just admit it”  Jane’s addiction While 92.9 per cent of Australian retail spend is still spent within bricks and mortar, increasing Australian mobile phone usage is not a figure...