SHOPOLOGY: The Retail Show with Louise Grimmer

What's better than one special guest? Two, of course!

This week Louise is joined by Dr Jason Pallant, Lecturer in Marketing at Swinburne University of Technology. Jason is a retail expert with a special interest in shopping centres, shopping malls and department stores. Jason and Louise discuss the impact of Covid19 on retailing, measures shopping centres are taking to attract customers and what the future holds.

And our other special guest this week is Dr Paula Dootson, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at Queensland University of Technology. Paula and Professor Gary Mortimer have written a really interesting article in The Conversation about new strategies being introduced in retailing to combat consumer theft. Supermarkets are taking the lead and using self-surveillance techniques including something called 'self-reflection' at the self-serve checkout. Tune in to find out what this means for retailers and shoppers.

All this plus weekly retail news headlines.

*SHOPOLOGY originally airs as a radio show on Edge Radio www.edgeradio.org.au

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Visit our website for more information about Louise Grimmer and the retail consultancy Shopology - www.shopology.com.au

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Using Street Space

With lockdown restrictions lifting around the country, many of us are heading back out to eat, drink and enjoy socialising with friends.

Thanks to Covid19 our local bars, cafes and restaurants now face a really tough ask – they can open their doors but only for a fraction of the customers. This seems like an impossible task but this week's special guest Thami Croeser has some really interesting ideas for how traders can find new ways to expand their space or seat their patrons.

Thami Croeser is an urban planner and spatial analyst in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University. He is currently part of an international project team advising the European Union on planning for urban greening. Over the next three years Thami will facilitate the development of greening plans for eight cities around the world.

We discuss his recent article in The Conversation about how we could use street space to help the retail and hospitality industries meet some of the re-opening challenges brought about by the easing of Covid19 restrictions.

Private Label Products

Do you love them, or do you loathe them? However you feel about them, there's no doubt you can expect to see more of them in your local supermarket. Louise takes a look at the reason behind the growth of private labels, and the benefits and downsides of PL expansion in the Australian retail industry.

You can read more about this topic in this article in The Conversation written by Professor Gary Mortimer from QUT and Dr Louise Grimmer from UTAS. Enjoy!

Plus the weekly retail news roundup.

*SHOPOLOGY originally airs as a radio show on Edge Radio www.edgeradio.org.au

Support the show

Thanks for tuning in. Please subscribe, rate and review the show - this really helps other people find us.

Visit our website for more information about Louise Grimmer and the retail consultancy Shopology - www.shopology.com.au

You can support the show with a small monthly donation and help us keep making great retail content for our listeners: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1141493/supporters/new

On this week’s show we take a look at how Coronavirus has changed the way we shop, and ask will online shopping become the new normal? To discuss these issues and many more facing the retail sector, Louise is joined by special guest, retail expert Professor Gary Mortimer. Gary is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in the Business School at Queensland University of Technology. 

And we speak with independent Hobart retailer Todd Morrison from Destination Cellars, who had to very quickly shift the store's physical product tasting events to an online-only format as a result of social distancing restrictions. How do virtual tasting events actually work in an online format and are they successful?

All this plus the weekly retail news roundup.

*SHOPOLOGY originally airs as a radio show on Edge Radio www.edgeradio.org.au

Support the show

Thanks for tuning in. Please subscribe, rate and review the show - this really helps other people find us.

Visit our website for more information about Louise Grimmer and the retail consultancy Shopology - www.shopology.com.au

You can support the show with a small monthly donation and help us keep making great retail content for our listeners: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1141493/supporters/new