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OpinionNike Town made me run a mile
It’s a store designer’s dream, but despite some customer gadgets, Nike Town London is style over substance.A quick trip to buy some running shorts on Bank Holiday Monday turned into a masterclass in poor customer service at Oxford Circus’ Nike Town. While the store look great, it won the Retail ...
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NewsRetailers opt for shopfitting security
Retailers’ worries about the financial security of some of the UK’s largest shopfitting companies is opening doors for Wates.
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OpinionLouis Vuitton vs the Post Office
Visiting the new Louis Vuitton store in Westfield London last week was an impressive, but ultimately unsatisfying experience. Yes, it’s a fine example of the brand’s current shop-fit, but were you to travel to Munich and to wander into local luxury department store Oberpollinger, you’d find more or less the ...
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GalleryStore of the week: Nike Covent Garden
It’s close to a year since Nike unveiled the glass cube that appeared to be suspended between floors in its Oxford Circus flagship and wowed all who visited. This store, in the heart of Covent Garden, is a more recent addition to the US sportswear giant’s portfolio.
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OpinionIn praise of visual merchandising
Retailers may well have suffered the worst six months in recent memory, but that has merely made the top players raise the visual merchandising bar yet again.
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GalleryStore of the week: Intersport, Gothenburg
It’s not often that retailers open very large sports stores these days, but pan-European operation Intersport has just unveiled this 10,000 sq ft, single-floor outlet in Sweden’s second city, Gothenburg.
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NewsAnthropologie unveils Regent Street blueprint
News has emerged about the interior form of the UK’s first Anthropologie store, set to open on Regent Street in the autumn.
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OpinionCheap products needn’t mean cheap-looking stores
This year’s World Retail Congress in Barcelona ended on Friday, closing three days of conferencing, networking and, it has to be said, a fair amount of evening carousing. But for those who wandered across the road into the adjacent Diagonal Mar shopping centre, there was an additional talking point. Diagonal ...
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Make more of what you have, urge store designers
Revise, remix, reinvent and reuse. This was the advice given by a panel of store designers at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona in a session on Store Design During a Recession.
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GalleryAdidas’ Parisian store revamp impresses
Adidas is going for gold with the striking revamp of its Champs Elysées flagship. John Ryan goes to Paris for a tour
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GalleryStore of the week: Lulu Guinness London
Handbag designer and homewares retailer Lulu Guinness is 20, or at least the brand that bears her name is, and this store, which has just opened on Ellis Street in the heart of London’s ritzy Knightsbridge, stands as evidence that the creative streak has not deserted her.
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GalleryStore of the week: Chez Jean, Paris
Chez Jean is a convenience store, a cafe, a top-up shop or maybe even an emergency dinner ingredients shop.
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NewsRetail Interiors Awards 2009 launch
The Retail Interiors Awards 2009 are now open for entries. In their 12th year, the awards are recognised as the benchmark by which store designs are judged and this year Point of Purchase Campaign of the Year has been included as a new category alongside the other 14 awards.The closing ...
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GalleryDetskiy Mir — Moscow
Translating, more or less, as “Children’s World”, Detskiy Mir was a retail feature of the pre-glasnost era. The name went underground somewhat in the new Russia until February this year, when it was relaunched in four remodelled stores around Moscow.Averaging about 21,530 sq ft and designed by Fitch, the stores ...
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GalleryNext in line
Next has made another leap forward with its latest store revamp at Oxford Circus. John Ryan finds out more about the new format
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NewsLakeland unveils a new-look store design
Homewares retailer Lakeland has unveiled a new-look store design with the opening of its Durham shop.The 5,000 sq ft shop, which opened last week, features a demonstration kitchen to promote the retailer’s recently-launched own-brand electricals range, alongside an area to showcase kitchen essentials.The centrepiece of ...
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GalleryLiberty in the name of luxury
Liberty’s latest incarnation is a tour de force of luxurious, design-led merchandising. John Ryan takes a look at the cosmetic overhaul
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GalleryStore of the week: Uniqlo, New York
Space is an essential commodity for retailers and the further down the socio-economic scale you go, the more intensively it tends to be used.It’s a surprise, therefore, to wander into Uniqlo, not 200 yards from the recently opened Topshop in lower Manhattan and see how ...
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GalleryStore of the week: Zain, Bahrain
Zain, a Bahrain-based phone retailer, has just unveiled a flagship in the Emirate’s Seef Mall. At 3,550 sq ft, this single-floor store has a large footprint by the sector’s standards.
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AnalysisTopshop: an English brand in New York
The delays have been overcome and the most eagerly awaited store of the year has arrived – Topshop has opened in Manhattan. Before the crowds descended, John Ryan walked the shop with Sir Philip Green