In this week’s Inside Retail PREMIUM, Carla Bridge talks to Williams-Sonoma about its progress in Australia and first Melbourne store opened this week, with an exclusive image gallery available online for our PREMIUM subscriber-only readers.

Jared Dickson zeros in on two big Aussie retailers and raises some important questions about the companies’ future viability and leadership.

In other news, an under performing department store takes its toll on a whole centre, an Australian pharmacy banner takes back its control, and a Sydney-based fashion label opens its latest store in its hometown.

We have a brand new weekly statistics page, this week with the rundown on which retailers are performing best on Facebook.

Jon Bird looks at robot retail and the changing brandscape, and our regular international column takes us to China and London.