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Oz Hair and Beauty, a top Australian hair and beauty store known for its website ozhairandbeauty.com, is opening 10 new shops across the country.

Qantas Frequent Flyers will be able to step up the value of their shopping by earning and using points across a range of Accent Group retail brands with the launch of a new partnership.

In a desperate attempt to boost lacklustre sales, retailers have turned what was originally a short, sharp shopping promotion into an extended margin-sapping clearance sale.

New stores are helping retailers grow topline sales but if conditions deteriorate, they may drag on earnings.

The new stores, two of which opened in Erina Fair and Castle Towers last month, are more focused on selling products and giving customers the opportunity to try before they buy.

"The first thing I'm going to eat is a chicken sandwich." Read what runners plan on doing after the competition is over.

The S&P/ASX 300 Index (ASX: XKO) is back in the green for the first time since Monday, helped along by these three shares.

Demand for new cars above $100,000 and luxury wine continues unabated, but there’s a big shift to value hunting in middle Australia.

Accent Group also operates branded stores Stylerunner and Glue, and says same store sales growth is up 16 per cent in the first seven weeks in the second half.

Scanning the faces of customers was an overreach by retailers and is likely to be prohibited under proposed new laws.