Gary Mortimer

Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced its single biggest investment in logistics infrastructure, spending A$780 million to replace up to 1,300 workers with robots.

Economy Innovation and technology

To curb opportunistic shoplifting, supermarkets want you to know you are being watched. But they're also hoping for self-reflection.

Marketing

Target's fall from grace involves poor market positioning, confusing strategies, and a declining middle class consumer market.

Marketing

Panic buying and other behaviours in times of crisis may bring people together, say Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at QUT, and Jana Bowden, Associate Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour at Macquarie University.

Nonprofit and philanthropy

The IKEA effect says ‘that labour alone can be sufficient to induce greater liking for the fruits of one’s labour’.

Marketing

Big W store closures signal deeper problems for the discount department store sector.

Marketing