Australia’s major retailers have a long and successful history of importing new ideas and strategies from overseas.

Innovations such as private label groceries, inspired by Tesco and Aldi in the 1970s, everyday-low-prices, which Big W copied from Walmart in the ’90s, automated checkouts, first used by Kroger in 1986, and click and collect, a term coined by Argos in 2000, are firmly established and widely accepted in the Australian retail scene.