All articles by John Ryan – Page 49
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GalleryStore gallery: Fashion retailers show off new season via window displays
As the Christmas Sales draw to an end, what are retailers on London’s Oxford Street doing to banish the winter blues and usher in the new shopping season? John Ryan reports.
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GalleryStore of the week: Sportswear retailer, Nike AF1 SoHo, New York
First there were sports shoe shops. Then there were running shoe shops. Now there are shops dedicated to a single sports shoe - well, almost. Welcome Nike’s AF1 store, New York.
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GalleryIn pictures: Urban Outfitters Oxford Street flagship opens
Urban Outfitters opens a store in the newly developed Park House at the West End of Oxford Street this morning.
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OpinionComment: What Morrisons could do better
A visit to the refitted Morrisons in Camden on Saturday afternoon was revealing. One morning, in the autumn last year, the suits were out in force admiring the change that had been wrought in the store following a makeover.
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GalleryStore gallery: New York’s latest store looks
John Ryan tours the city’s stores to discover what has changed since the last visit to coincide with the National Retail Federation convention in the Big Apple.
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GalleryStore of the week: Fashion retailer Shasa, Cancun, Mexico
Shasa, the Mexican fashion retailer that also has shops across Texas, opened this store in Mexico City in October - a good example of a space where the architecture dominates.
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OpinionComment: It’s snow joke for UK high street retailers
Snow, the economy and spring stock. What else can the gods throw at retailers?
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GalleryStore of the week: Food retailer Longo’s flagship, Toronto, Canada
Longo’s is a family owned grocer that operates 24 stores in the Greater Toronto area, and this one, in Maple Leaf Square in the city’s downtown area, is its flagship.
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GalleryStore gallery: Loblaws takes a fresh approach to food retailing
Canadian based retailer Loblaws has turned the conventional supermarket format on its head in its Toronto flagship. John Ryan investigates what they are doing differently.
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OpinionComment: Are iPads the future of store design?
Remember the time when retailers seemed to think that if it moved then an iPad should be attached to it? It wasn’t actually that long ago.
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GalleryStore of the week: ST Dupont, Seoul, South Korea
ST Dupont is a Parisian luxury accessories retailer and you could be forgiven for not having heard of it, as it has managed to maintain a resolutely low profile this side of the Channel.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sweatshop stays ahead of the competition
Running gear retailer Sweatshop is a step ahead of the competition with a new store in the City packed with product and specialist equipment.
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OpinionComment: Chinese retailers need to raise their UK game
Bosideng, the Chinese retailer with thousands of shops in its home country, opened its first UK store last year.
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GalleryStore of the week: G-Star Raw, Shanghai
Denim brand G-Star Raw has continued its relentless global expansion with the opening of a second store in Shanghai.
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GalleryStore gallery: Shanghai takes store design to the next level
The Chinese city may have many familiar retailers but the stores take things to a new level.
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OpinionComment: Fewer and better – shops in 2013
This is the last Stores column of 2012 and the normal modus operandi at this stage is to look back at what’s been and to anticipate what’s to come.
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GalleryStore of the week: Uniqlo, Shanghai
Uniqlo has already featured as a store of the week during 2012 (in Paris), but there are few excuses for not affording it space once more because the Shanghai flagship, on the West Nanjing Road, does things that other branches do not.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sainsbury’s King’s Lynn opens with a fashionable new look
Sainsbury’s has opened a new store in King’s Lynn that breaks a few of the accepted rules about supermarket design.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Tesco gives F&F an in-store makeover
Tesco’s fashion brand has revamped its look in the Woolwich and Pitsea stores.
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OpinionComment: Customers take the lead as we head into 2013
With Christmas just around the corner, magazines and newspapers are filled with reflections on the year that was and how things may shape up as we plunge into the new year