Episodes

  • Black Friday Sales Results Are In: A Record for Australian Retail?
    Dec 4 2024

    Black Friday results are in and wow, they are encouraging. Finally, some green shoots for Australian retailers.

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (November 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard. The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing November's outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into Black Friday sales results by channel, state, time of the week and more. Incredibly exciting results to say the least. Bring on Christmas!

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    22 mins
  • October 2024 - Australian Retail Sales Data Shows Positive Signs Before Black Friday
    Nov 5 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (October 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard. The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing October's outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into Black Friday and what we can expect this year, based off the data accrued over the past two years for the same period. If you would like to learn more about the Retail Score Index and how you can gain access to this data for your own business, reach out via our website www.theretailscore.com.

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    24 mins
  • Episode #11 - Price & Discounting Trends in Australian Retail
    Oct 9 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (September 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard. The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing Septembers outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into discounting and the average sell price fluctuations of retailers within the tRS index. If you would like to learn more about the Retail Score Index and how you can gain access to this data for your own business, reach out via our website www.theretailscore.com.

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    15 mins
  • Episode #10 - Margins Show Fightback in This Retail Recession
    Sep 4 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (August 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard. The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing Augusts outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into the importance of contextualising & benchmarking your data against your industry. If you would like to learn more about the Retail Score Index and how you can gain access to this data for your own business, reach out via our website www.theretailscore.com.

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    22 mins
  • Episode #9 - The First Positive Signs for Retailers in 2024
    Jul 4 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (June 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard.

    The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing June’s outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into the importance of meticulous planning and forecasting when it comes to buying and how seriously of stocks & other inventory issues can severely impact your business. Well done to Australian retailers for holding on and making it through to their first month of growth in over 14 months! Finger crossed this is the start of better times.

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    24 mins
  • Episode #8 - The Impact of Rising Rents & Wages In a Retail Recession
    Jun 6 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (May 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard.

    The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing May's outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into the rising rent and wage costs retailers are currently facing in what can only be described as an unsustainable market.

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    24 mins
  • Episode #7 - April 2024 Scoreboard & Retailer Budgeting Trends/Sentiment
    May 10 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (April 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard.

    The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing April's outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into the retailers' budgeting trends and sentiment (as of May 2024). He dives deeper into what missing budget can mean for your business, how to avoid making stock miscalculations and tips to prepare for the tricky road ahead for the Australian retail landscape.

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    21 mins
  • Episode #6 - March 2024 Scoreboard & Is Afterpay Day Worth Participating In?
    Apr 12 2024

    Wayne Rigney, the Co-Founder of tRS, provides an insightful overview of the past month's performance (March 2024) for Australian retailers in the latest episode of The Retail Scoreboard.

    The analytics are compromised from the anonymised data of over 100 leading retailers in Australia, ensuring that the statistics and insights shared are both relevant and enlightening for all listeners.

    In addition to discussing March's outcomes & breaking down the KPI Scoreboard for the month, Wayne takes a deep dive into whether or not manufactured sales events like Afterpay Day and Click Frenzy are actually worth it for the Retailer once you take into account it's affects on GP% and overall retail performance in the weeks after these events.

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    16 mins