AUSTRALIAN retailers reduced expenditure on advertising by 2 per cent last year

Retailers cut back on ad spend The Australian AUSTRALIAN retailers reduced expenditure on advertising by 2 per cent last year as weak consumer sentiment put the big brands under pressure to cut back on discretionary items. Retail is Australia's largest advertising category, accounting for a fifth ... See all stories on this topic »

RBA should cut interest rates, says Premier Investments chair Solomon Lew The Australian In what is the latest in a string of downbeat results from the discretionary retail sector, the company behind retail chains including Just Jeans and Portmans yesterday reported a 2.4 per cent fall in first-half net profit and warned that full-year ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple only sells 2% more iPhones than Best Buy Washington Post Possibly more than Apple's own retail shops, according to a new study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. The research firm surveyed people from December 2011 to February 2012 about where they purchased their iPhone. See all stories on this topic »

Retailers' sales still suffering This is Nottingham RETAILERS suffered their worst sales performance in nine months in February as families continued to rein in spending. Retail sales volumes fell by a larger-than-expected 0.8 per cent between January and February, the Office for National Statistics ... See all stories on this topic »

City Council Votes to Draft Law to Keep Retail Chains From Chinatown Patch.com The view at Cesar Chavez and Grand avenues from the building that will house the new Wal-Mart grocery. law that could effectively ban major retail chains from opening in Chinatown. It would not block a controversial Wal-Mart grocery store in an ... See all stories on this topic »

Report: Ex-Penn Wood star Oakman faces retail theft rap at Penn State Delaware County Daily Times However, according to the reports, Oakman was charged with two counts of retail theft and one count each of harassment and disorderly conduct for the alleged incident which took place in The Mix, a convenience store in Pollock Commons. See all stories on this topic »

Can Canada Handle the Retail Boom? Huffington Post Canada (blog) The world of retail is often dramatic and competitive, but more than ever before there is a perfect storm brewing in the Canadian marketplace. This country already has more retailers than it knows what to do with and the sector continues to broaden. See all stories on this topic »

Memphis 3D Company Takes Aim at Walmart MarketWatch (press release) BARTLETT, Tenn., March 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- An online contest launched last month by retail giant Walmart is helping call attention to innovative retail products and, in one case, a very interesting new 3D offering from American Paper ... See all stories on this topic »