CWF Panel Discussion 27 November 2020

Panel Discussion Series

Disruptions, Challenges and Opportunities in Retail: Workforce, Business and Innovation during and after COVID

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Launch of new book, Matthew Bailey, Managing the Market-place: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia, (Routledge 2020)

Held 27 November.

Disruption is intrinsic to retail development. Australia’s current retail environment is bookended by two fundamental disruptions: the transformation of urban geographies by the spread of cars from the 1950s that helped produce supermarkets and shopping centres and current transformations resulting from e-commerce, accelerated by COVID-19 challenges. In this webinar, academic and industry speakers examined the past, present and future of retailing in Australia and the implications of current disruptions on employees, businesses, and shoppers.