In the Media - Michael Baker

A selection of Michael Baker's media (click on the title to read)

Online sales reach a trillion
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 11, 2013)

Retailers fight back
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 3, 2013)

Ensuring the forecast is mostly sunny
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age,March 13, 2013)

Retail property in 2013
(Inside Retail, February 7, 2013)

Online stores can be ideal testing grounds
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, February 12, 2013)

Shopping centres' new skill
(Inside Retail, December 6, 2012)

Counter-attack Asia reinvents the bookstore
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 19, 2012)

Mixing it up
(Inside Retail, September 5, 2012)

Retail property revolution
(Inside Retail, July 11, 2012)

Anchored in the Past
(Inside Retail, June 10, 2012)

Fashion's new front - wearable technology
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, May 30, 2012

5 lessons in retail creativity
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, May 18, 2012)

North America's bust to boom
(Inside Retail, May 2, 2012

Australian fashion raises the barbell
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 25, 2012)

The e-commerce explosion is all in the planning
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 20, 2012)

The importance of the square
(Inside Retail, April 19, 2012)

Forget Facebook-big retailers beat a retreat
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, February 29, 2012)

Shopping online for Christmas toys-oh the horror
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, November 30, 2011)

Digitally feeble-you're in good company
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, November 23, 2011)

Why salespeople are being pushed aside
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, October 26, 2011)

Using technology to turn a retail Queen Mary
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, October 19, 2011)

Six personality types that will trash your business
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 28, 2011

The making of a real estate monster
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 21, 2011)

The 10 characteristics of highly effective retailers
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 7, 2011)

Tourism-the other Aussie ripoff
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 17, 2011

Some popup shops can hardly contain themselves
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 10, 2011)

What bankrobbers and retailers have in common
(Inside Retail, August 3, 2011)

Factory outlet centres - the comeback kids of retail
(Inside Retailing, July 15, 2011)

Why the US might be ripe for retail
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 13, 2011)

Retailers caught in bad run of outs
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 15, 2011)

Independent clothing retail shrinks again
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 6, 2011

Retail works on an end to greenwash
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, March 8, 2011)

(Mainstream retail chains buy into e-outlets)
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, February 23, 2011)

Alternative locations for independent retailers
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, February 3, 2011

Retailers- they're not all lemons
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, January 28, 2011

Retail technology revolution marches on
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, January 19, 2011

The CBD's new golden era
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, December 15, 2010)

Retail hopes in the bag
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, November 4, 2010)

Blockbuster is changing but is it enough?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, October 20, 2010)

Retail: Traversing the dark water
(The Fifth Estate, October 18, 2010)

Internet bites but how hard
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, October 13, 2010)

Are you being served?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 22, 2010)

Local is the new global so why arent we taking advantage
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 15, 2010)

The rise of the frugal fashionista
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, September 8, 2010)

Rethinking the Australian Town Centre – Part II –The Five Stages of Grief
(The Fifth Estate, September 3, 2010)

Retail sales accelerate but only a little
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 31, 2010)

Marbles that shouldn’t be lost
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 25, 2010)

Retailers, don’t be part of your own problem
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 18, 2010)

Should department stores play the fast fashion card?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, August 10, 2010)

Rethinking the Australian Town Centre
(The Fifth Estate, August 4, 2010)

Batting aside the invincible
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 28, 2010)

Fashion shops must look to genghis khan style
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 21, 2010)

Hope yet for retailers
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 14, 2010)

The skinny on new food regulations
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 13, 2010)

Santayana and Shopping Centres
(Inside Retailing, July 9, 2010)

Retailers not so thaw on any sunshine just yet
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, July 7, 2010)

Bringing back rebellious marketing
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 30, 2010)

The world be in it
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 23, 2010)

The chief whingeing officers of retail
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 16, 2010)

Hollow victory for the small players
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 9, 2010)

When internet sales rain they pour
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 2, 2010

Is the clash of the two supermarket titans over?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, May 26, 2010

Blockbuster fights demise of dvd storefronts
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, May 18, 2010

Growth for small retailers winds back
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, May 11, 2010)

Getting the upper hand on competitors
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 28, 2010)

All aboard the foreign fashion flotilla
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 21, 2010)

Department stores lose grip on beauty
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 14, 2010)

Time-travellers of retail
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, April 7, 2010)

A gap in Australian retail
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, March 31, 2010)

Empty overseas shops open up new opportunities
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, March 23, 2010

Making space for smaller retailers
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, March 17, 2010)

The retail technology revolution will not be televised
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, March 2, 2010)

The rot is beginning to show in our malls
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Feb 24, 2010)

Who wants to be the king of cheap?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Feb 17, 2010)

Bloomingdale’s Dubai opening—lessons for Australian dept stores
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Feb 10, 2010)

How policy makers are abandoning small business
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Dec 9, 2009)

Not so low-rent
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Nov 25, 2009)

2010’s ten great retail trends
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Nov 18, 2009)

Popping up everywhere
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Nov 4, 2009)

Why does shopping have to be so boring?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Oct 21, 2009)

Myer goes public—but does the public care?
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Oct 14, 2009)

Top 10 global retail-trends
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, Aug 5, 2009)

The battle cry goes up as Costco comes to town
(Sydney Morning Herald/Melbourne Age, June 23, 2009)