All Staff pay articles – Page 71
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OpinionComment: Shoppers don’t care about retail and eco
Time was, not so long ago, when retailers were falling over themselves to show that they were green and were toasted for their BREEAM rating.
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GalleryStore of the week: Nike Flyknit, Gare de Lyon, Paris, France
A translucent purple geodesic dome sits outside the Gare de Lyon in Paris, cutting a contemporary dash when set against the late 19th century architecture.
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GalleryStore gallery: What are the supermarket interiors of the future?
Grocers constantly strive to improve the in-store experience to win over shoppers in a competitive environment. John Ryan finds out what the future of food shopping looks like.
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OpinionComment: Retailers are wasting money on new shops
Starting anew when fitting out a shop is a formula for delaying return on investment.
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GalleryStore gallery: Westfield London uses small stores to stand out
Most developers can bring in the high street’s big retail names, but the addition of small stores can make a shopping centre stand out.
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GalleryStore of the week: Merkur supermarket, Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna
For a small country, Austria has a lot of good supermarkets. And to an extent, they are very often one of the many guises adopted by Spar.
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NewsDixons launches in-store bunker for gaming fanatics
Dixons has launched a ‘Gaming Bunker’ to allow gamers to trial some of the highest-specification gaming technology on the market.
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OpinionComment: Wake up and smell the coffee shops
Time was when we used to be pretty happy with a cup of dark liquid that didn’t taste of much in particular and which was dispensed from a glass flask containing what was claimed to be “filter coffee”.
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GalleryStore gallery: Whole Foods Market branches out to Cheltenham retail park
The majority of Whole Foods Market stores in this country are, with the exception of the leviathan flagship on Kensington High Street, modestly sized and in affluent metropolitan locations.
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GalleryWindow of the week: Fashion retailer, Topshop, Oxford Circus, London
At the top end of the market, there are times when it might seem that success in visual merchandising is posited upon throwing large amounts of time and money at a window.
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OpinionComment: Discount fashion - when more really is less
News that value-clothing chain Store Twenty One is pleading with landlords for rent reductions should not be entirely surprising.
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GalleryStore gallery: Urban Outfitters Marble Arch store opens with a twist
Urban Outfitters has opened in the Park House development at Marble Arch and the store is very different from the other London branches. John Ryan visits.
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GalleryStore of the week: The Harry Potter Shop, King’s Cross, London
There’s been a luggage trolley in the new departures hall of London’s King’s Cross station that appears to be disappearing into a wall for some time now. Above it is the legend ‘Platform 9¾’.
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OpinionComment: The pace of retail quickens
January is the month when not much happens in retail traditionally.
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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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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: 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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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 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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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.