Bettina Liano to New York for cheaper rent
Rachel Wells One of Melbourne's best-known fashion designers has launched a scathing attack on Melbourne's retail landscape, describing store rents as 'exorbitant' and likening the CBD to a ghost town.
Click Frenzy a boost for sales despite glitches
Rachel Wells and Sarah Whyte Retailers participating in this week's Click Frenzy event have registered a record number of online sales, despite the early technical problems, new data shows.
Frenzy's virtual doors fail to open
Rachel Wells It was touted as retail's opportunity to 'fight back' against international online stores, but Click Frenzy's virtual doors have failed to open.
DJs' online frenzy ends in meltdown
Rachel Wells Retailer's attempt to hijack Australia's first national online shopping event backfires, with the department store's two week old website crashing this afternoon under the weight of heavy traffic.
Shop till they drop: online boom forces stores to cut prices
Rachel Wells RETAIL prices for hundreds of products, from clothing to cosmetics, have dropped by as much as half in recent years, due to greater global price transparency brought about by a boom in online...
DJs snubs joint retail frenzy for one of its own making
Rachel Wells On the eve of Australia's biggest national online shopping event, David Jones announces it is staging a rival one-day sale of its own - only to run into technical problems with its website.
Prices slide as Aussie shoppers demand better deals
Rachel Wells Australian retail prices for hundreds of products, from clothing to cosmetics, have dropped by as much as 50 per cent in recent years, due to greater global price transparency brought about by a boom...
Online mega sale to lift local retail
Rachel Wells Some of Australia's biggest retailers sign on for Australia's version of America's online shopping phenomenon, Cyber Monday.
Retailers hope for clicking frenzy
Rachel Wells Australian shoppers to get their own version of online shopping phenomenon, Cyber Monday.
Tuesday frenzy for local take on US online sale
Rachel Wells AUSTRALIAN shoppers will get their own version of America's online shopping phenomenon, Cyber Monday, when some of the nation's leading retailers slash prices at their online stores for 24 hours next...
Customer service: who is the worst
Rachel Wells HARVEY NORMAN has scored the poorest customer service rating of Australia's major retailers, in a new survey by consumer advocate group Choice.
A man with a postbox plays DJs for mugs
Karen Kissane, Rachel Wells, Elizabeth Knight DAVID JONES is under fire from the corporate regulator after a bid for the department store chain collapsed spectacularly.
Mystery bidder for DJs revealed
Rachel Wells and Elizabeth Knight Man behind takeover offer reveals himself as John Edgar, Scotsman linked to matrix of dubious one-pound companies.
DJs bid organiser linked to £1 outfits
Rachel Wells, Elizabeth Knight THE man behind the mysterious $1.65 billion takeover offer for Australia's oldest department store, David Jones, has revealed himself as John Edgar - a Scot linked to a matrix of dubious £1...
Watchdog urged to probe local distributors blocking online sales
Rachel Wells There are growing calls for Australia's competition watchdog to conduct an inquiry into local apparel distributors who are preventing overseas suppliers from selling their products to Australian...
Calls rising for Reserve to cut rates
Rachel Wells Business groups urge the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates in a bid to lift the mood of consumers, who are as pessimistic about their personal finances as they were during the recession of the 1990s.
Disgraced CEO faces 'phoenix' company claim
Ben Butler, Lucy Battersby and Rachel Wells THE corporate watchdog is considering laying charges against disgraced Energy Watch boss Ben Polis over the collapse of a previous version of the business.
Big retailers hammered
Rachel Wells, Colin Kruger and Eli Greenblat Two more of the nation's leading chains unveil wretched earnings figures that have been blamed in part on the industry's failure to embrace online shopping.
Woolies and Coles ring up half of all food bills
Rachel Wells MORE than half of all the money Australian households spend on food each year, including groceries, restaurant and takeaway meals, goes into the coffers of the supermarket giants Coles and...
Post passes parcels as shoppers click with the web
Rachel Wells Welcome to Christmas 2011-style: where much of the pre-Christmas activity has moved from shopping centres to parcel facilities.
