Ignore Amazon at your peril

Ignore Amazon at your peril

Peter Sheppard Are we fit enough to compete with this game changing retailer? That is a question nearly all traditional style retailers are asking, and if not, should be asking of themselves and their advisors. Amazon has just launched its Amazon Prime offer in...
The Amazon Effect: Redefining Retail in Australia

The Amazon Effect: Redefining Retail in Australia

Since the launch of Amazon in Australia in 2017, Australian retail leaders have been asking: How will Amazon impact the Australian retail landscape? How do we guide retailers through this disruption? Will it change Australian consumer behaviour? Retail Doctor Group’s...
Is the discounting drug worse than the illness?

Is the discounting drug worse than the illness?

I am continually amazed when walking retail malls the amount of discounting that is offered by virtually all general merchandise retailers, be they fashion, homewares, jewellers or whatever category you can think of. This is true for the vast majority of the year, be...
Do you own the retail space?

Do you own the retail space?

“In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ‘ridiculously in charge,’ then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera. ” – Henry Cloud One of the first questions to consider in working with a retailer’s business,...