Mirvac Retail prioritises customer safety by launching COVID traffic tracker
Mirvac Retail has announced another new innovation to help its shopping centre customers navigate busy periods and time manage their physical trip to the shops via the centre website and...
Solar Car Parks launches its range of solar car ports in Australia and New Zealand
As solar car parking systems become more prominent across Australia with the ever-increasing demand for energy independence, coupled with the obvious benefit of shaded parking, Paul Nealgrove, Senior Project Developer...
WeChat Pay solution creates new Chinese market opportunities
COVID-19 has seen a surge in digital payments but for China, digital payments like AliPay and WeChat have been around for many years utilising new technologies and the power of...
The new normal retailers accelerate physical and digital integration
As retailers gradually begin to re-open their stores, many are doing so with initiatives that converge the digital and physical channels in innovative ways. This article examines how Scentre Group...
Skyfii releases an automated occupancy and social distancing management tool to help businesses comply with COVID-19 regulations
In the wake of COVID-19, the ability to actively maintain a safe environment for customers and staff members is crucial. Skyfii, an Omnidata Intelligence company and the leader in location-based...
Alipay launches Zero Contact to support the Australian hospitality sector
Alipay has today announced a new initiative – Zero Contact – to support Australia’s hospitality sector as the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions begin to gradually ease. Zero Contact aims to help...
Personalised engagement and rewarding shopping habits will be key to rebound post COVID-19.
While it may seem premature to be thinking beyond COVID-19, we know it will pass. Australia’s latest figures show promising signs of a flattened curve, however it is likely to...
Stockland Burleigh Heads first retail centre in Queensland to launch app for vision-impaired
Australian startup BindiMaps is revolutionising the way people who are blind or vision-impaired experience large indoor spaces with an app that facilitates simple navigation in indoor locations, like shopping centres. Stockland...
Stockland to rollout Amazon lockers as online sales grow
Stockland has partnered with Amazon as the first Australian property company to offer Amazon Locker, a secure, self-service kiosk for parcel pick ups. This move by the property group will enable customers...
Four simple steps to improve sustainability and tenant comfort
Analysing a shopping centre’s temperature, air quality, ventilation and overall shopper and tenant comfort, is a difficult exercise if the equipment that controls such factors is not digitised. The comfort...
Scentre Group partners with smart receipt start-up, Slyp
Sydney-based start-up Slyp has announced the completion of a $4 million funding round that included ANZ, NAB, Westpac-backed Reinventure and Scentre Group, owner and operator of Westfield in Australia and...
Coles secures three new solar power plants
Coles has signed an agreement to secure three new solar power plans, with the new projects to provide 10% of Coles’ national power needs. Construction is scheduled to begin in September...
Physical stores leverage the last mile advantage
There have been many new initiatives and innovations in the world of retail since it began some thousands of years ago. In whatever form they have arrived, bricks-and-mortar retail (as...
Digital technology takes centre stage at State of the Retail Nation
The prominence of digital technology was the key theme at the recent State of the Retail Nation (SORN) panels hosted by the National Retail Association (NRA). Across three days in...
Scentre Group partners with Lygon and banks to transform the bank guarantee process
ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, IBM, Scentre Group and Westpac have jointly launched a live pilot for Lygon, a new digital platform using blockchain technology to transform the way businesses obtain and...
Stockland Wetherill Park launches BindiMaps for vision-impaired customers
Australian startup BindiMaps is revolutionising the way people who are blind or vision impaired experience large, indoor spaces with an app that provides navigation in indoor locations, like shopping centres....
Scentre Group partners with Uber Air
Think taxis in the sky! Uber has today announced Australia as the first international market for Uber Air, with Melbourne being selected as the third official pilot city. Melbourne will...
Mirvac takes EV charging to the next level
In a shopping centre first, Mirvac Retail has installed Chargefox’s latest ultra-rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging station at Toombul in Brisbane. The charging facility went live this week as part...
Skyfii acquires Beonic Technologies
Skyfii Limited (ASX:SKF) has announced that it has entered into acquisition agreements to acquire customer insights provider, Beonic Technologies (Beonic), a highly complementary offering to Skyfii’s Australian REIT focused SaaS...
Home Consortium signs contract with Skyfii
Skyfii Limited (ASX:SKF) one of Australia’s leading data analytics and marketing services company has announced that it has signed a three year contract with leading large format retail landlord, Home...
Global-first trial of a clear solar glass structure at Vicinity Centres
Vicinity Centres has partnered with smart building company ClearVue Technologies to launch a global-first trial of a clear solar glass structure installed at Warwick Grove shopping centre in Western Australia. ...
Stockland gives startups a boost
Following a two-week intensive bootcamp, 12 startups were selected to take part in the six month Stockland Accelerator Program. Powered by Australia’s largest tech startup accelerator BlueChilli, the Stockland Accelerator program aims to...
Lendlease trials new transparent screen technology
Lendlease has announced that it has started trialling new technology, a transparent LED mesh screen, at its shopping centre located in south west Sydney, Macarthur Square. The trial is in partnership with Techfront...
Why local matters
‘Rich data’, ‘advanced shopper analytics’ and ‘virtual blue tooth beacons’. These are marketing terms unheard of just a few years ago. Ben Walker takes us into another dimension and heads...
Stockland launches Stockland Accelerator
Stockland has today launched the Stockland Accelerator – a program to identify and develop ‘PropTech’ (property technology) start-up solutions to create better connected communities. Powered by Australia’s largest tech start-up...
New digital payments making cash registers ring
The estimated annual payments volume in Australia is around $1 trillion. The use of cash continues to decline, and although $500 billion is still attributed to card payments, the adoption of...
Lendlease expands digital network
Sally Harding shares with us the success story and growth of the in-house multimedia business across Lendlease’s 15 shopping precincts – enabling the retail business to curate and tailor out-of-home...
Alipay brings digital payments to Melbourne’s buskers
No cash for buskers? Alipay has a digital solution for you. Alipay, the world’s leading online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group has today launched a digital payment project...
Alipay reaches 10,000 merchants in Australia and NZ
Australia and New Zealand are in the middle of a tourism boom as people come from far and wide to experience our pristine coastlines, unique wildlife and premium local goods....
Future You
We ponder deeply about the future of retail – what will a shop be like, will it contain stock or just imagery, holograms, samples? How will the internet and online...
Big data the key to retail growth
Big Data, we’re told, is the answer to most commercial problems. We’re now informed it’s the solution for shopping centres in their battle against the online sellers. Ben Walker tells...
Retail digital data: improving trading at shopping centres
Shopping centres across the country can now build a detailed view of their customers' shopping behaviour through shopper data captured in real time, overlaid with data analytics. This will help shopping centres improve centre loyalty, create better shopper and community engagement, and optimise sales for centres overall...
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