This is arguably the most fascinating, puzzling, daunting, challenging and ultimately exhilarating time for retail in history.

Australian shoppers are becoming more conscious of fairtrade practices by businesses and are shopping with their ethics, a new global poll has found.

Malls will be "entertainment for the rich" beyond 2020 says a global thinktank...

Coles’ plan to spark a price war in the produce department has growers nervous.

Reverse loyalty concept in Singapore aimed at giving independent cafes a boost.

Seattle team opens temporary supermarket in the car park of an apartment block that's made out of a shipping container.

Columnist Dennis Price challenges retailers: how are you dealing with the future? 

A tiny store in London demonstrates the convergence of two important new retail trends...

Canada’s The Bay department store delivers a new take on one of the department store sector’s biggest trends - designer and exclusive labels.

Focusing on health and fitness creates new business opportunities for retailers.

Carla Bridge is Managing Editor of Inside Retailing. She has a background in journalism and sub-editing, specialising in the retail industry. She has spent close to a decade reporting and commentating on the retail industry and issues including fashion, e-commerce, acquisitions, lifestyle and retail trends. Carla is also experienced in public relations, having worked on corporate communications, experiential, business to business and consumer campaigns for a number of high profile brands.

Robert Stockdill is Director of Content with Inside Retailing. Robert has been researching and commentating on the Australian and Asian retail industry for more than a decade. While Sydney based he travels extensively throughout Asia and beyond to Europe and the US studying new store formats, shopping centres and retail trends. In Sydney he leads a team of journalists writing for Inside Retailing - an Australian-based retail industry news website with subscriber-only weekly digital newsletter and a bi-mo...

The Reserve Bank is convinced consumer hibernation is a phase and Australians will soon return to the shops.

Fast food chains buck economic trends as Rugby World Cup set to boost business.

Forever 21 customers have been wowed by a fashion runway show comprised entirely of holographic models.

Retail Doctor Group breakfasts planned for Sydney, Melbourne.

Study shows most shoppers are using more than one channel before making a final purchase decision.

Retailers must re-embrace controlled inflation and re-discover the ability to sell customers up to the next price increase, says Peter James Ryan.

Customer service ‘megatrends’ will dictate the success or failure of businesses in the future - report.

Dr Dennis Price highlights two key trends set to shape retail in 2012 and beyond. 

Australian shopping app allows retailers to open online stores on Facebook

Jon Bird has over three decades’ experience in retail marketing, starting as an advertising copywriter and Creative Director and progressing to agency management. Jon was a founding partner of IdeaWorks, a specialist retail marketing agency headquartered in Sydney with satellite offices in Brisbane and Melbourne. He is currently IdeaWorks’ CEO, working across a vast range of retail clients from Big W to Dymocks, and a myriad of projects from one-off digital campaigns to complete retail brand reinvention...

Model helps reposition DFO malls as fashion destinations.

IBM names five innovations that will change the way we live, work and interact within the next five years.

The Titanic of traditional retail is sinking, writes Dennis Price.