It was with interest to once again read the how management at the department store was explaining the continuing fall in profit, their reasons and the remedies to return the company back to profit. As I have previously written the problem with Myer management is their failure to recognise the need to improve the selling [...]

Over recent weeks the topic of shoppers buying online has been discussed at length and has been highlighted by retail store owners as their biggest threat to the traditional holiday season business. The debate seems to have fallen into two areas with the store owners to some extent capitulating and starting their own online stores [...]

Over the weekend it was interesting reading about and listening to the comments from Myer management on the past years financial results. They are naturally compared with their nearest rival David Jones. As a buyer I regularly experience shopping in both stores but Myer always seems to fall short when it comes to sales and [...]

During the past few years we have seen the retail sector of our economies struggle with reduced turnover as consumers buckled down and stopped spending. The normal mentality in such a crisis was for the retailer to cut price sales and we saw discounts of up to eighty percent off normal prices. This reaction results [...]

Not long ago I was watching a business program from the United States of America discussing the unemployment situation and the slight recovery in companies starting to rehire staff. The interviewer was speaking to a large department store manager who commented he had found business had started to improve and he was looking to hire [...]