All articles by John Ryan – Page 45
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AnalysisAnalysis: Uniqlo finds new ways to bring excitement to its stores
One of the trends that seems to be becoming more prevalent in store promotion is the move towards taking a well-known name or brand, linking it with a host store and then standing back and waiting for the sales to pour in.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How to achieve design success when expanding overseas
There’s more to success overseas than turning up and hoping for the best. John Ryan talks to Raj Wilkinson, creative director at JHP Design.
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OpinionComment: How to use extra space in Tesco stores and is it worth it?
There will be those who are prepared to criticise Tesco for a rumoured decision to allow Sports Direct into its bigger stores, but this has to be better than empty space.
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GalleryStore of the week: Peloton & Co, Spitalfields Market
Wander into most larger branches of Halfords these days, inspect the cycles offer and it’s more than likely there will be a couple of Boardman bikes on display.
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AnalysisRetail Week's 25th anniversary: The stores that transformed the retail landscape
The past 25 years brought constant innovation of stores. John Ryan looks at some of the most groundbreaking formats during the period.
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GalleryIn pictures: First Little Waitrose in John Lewis to open tomorrow
Waitrose’s convenience format Little Waitrose is set to open in John Lewis’ Watford store tomorrow, the first time the shop has launched within its sister department store chain.
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GalleryStore of the week: The Conran Shop, Marylebone High Street
Top-end furniture and homewares retailers are not uncommon in the more chichi parts of central London. And many of them still seem to favour minimalism.
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OpinionComment: Will a sub-standard retail environment turn customers off?
Let’s invent a new shop. It will stock books. Well, actually, it will stock very few books. Instead there will be endless repetitions of a few titles.
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GalleryStore gallery: Tesco Chelmsford prioritises convenience format
Tesco is piloting a convenience format in Chelmsford. John Ryan visits and talks to superstores managing director Richard Baker.
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GalleryIn pictures: River Island opens its largest store in Marble Arch
River Island opened its biggest store to date on Saturday, covering 19,968 sq ft across three-floors at the west end of Oxford Street in the Park House development.
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OpinionComment: Where is the best place to shop in London?
It may not be Knightsbridge, the Kings Road or the Oxford and Regent Street combo. So where is it?
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GalleryStore gallery: Waitrose makes customer service top priority
Waitrose has installed concierge desks in eight stores to welcome customers and offer services. John Ryan visits the Horley branch.
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GalleryStore of the week: Topman, Oxford Circus
Sometimes, in these casual days, it’s easy to imagine that the days of the two-piece, and especially three-piece, suit are gone, but not at the Topshop/Topman flagship at Oxford Circus.
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GalleryIn pictures: Tesco unveils “super convenience” trial store in Chelmsford
Tesco has unveiled a trial store format that provides urban dwellers with an outsize convenience offer in place of a standard supermarket.
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OpinionComment: North London retail rents - a lesson in greed
A small London ‘village’ where rents are rising serves as a microcosm for what is happening everywhere.
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GalleryStore of the week: Argos, Camden
Argos would seem the sort of place where the iPad should have a greater ability to come into its own, in helping shoppers get what they want.
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GalleryStore gallery: Whiteley shopping centre - the new outdoor mall opens
Whiteley shopping centre is one of the few significant UK retail schemes to launch this year. John Ryan visited on opening day.
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GalleryStore gallery: Topshop’s evolutions in American store design
The design evolution of Topshop’s US stores shows that cookie-cutter openings have no place when establishing a fashion brand internationally.
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OpinionComment: What DIY retailers aren’t doing right in a difficult market
Homebase, B&Q and Wickes are all suffering falling sales, but perhaps a little more project-based merchandising might help.