All Stores and property articles – Page 295
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GallerySuper fashion in supermarkets?
As Waitrose gets ready to sell clothing, how do the big supermarkets deal with the matter of selling fashion? John Ryan travels to Milton Keynes to find out
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AnalysisIn-store events in a digital world
In-store events are a good way to draw the crowds. But in today’s digital world, have customers’ expectations of these footfall-driving extravaganzas changed? Alison Clements reports
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GalleryDesigual, Oxford Street
Desigual is one of those curious beasts where you tend to look at the shop ahead of the stock.
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NewsInvestment key as new TJ Hughes owner plans to rebuild the chain
TJ Hughes’ new owner has vowed to invest in the stores to revive the department store retailer in a bid to rebuild it into a nationwide chain within five years.
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OpinionEnough already! No more shops
Opening more branches is no shortcut to enhanced profits. Improve what’s there.
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GalleryTopshop: Old kid on the block
As young fashion retailer Forever 21 opens on Oxford Street, John Ryan visits Topshop’s flagship to see if new competition can stand up to the shopping destination’s home of fashion
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NewsWaitrose to try fashion at Canary Wharf store
Upmarket grocer Waitrose is to make a play for fashion as it launches its first clothing offer in its Canary Wharf store in London as part of plans to ramp up its non-food ranges.
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GalleryIntersport Stähle, Bad Dürrheim
German sports retailer Intersport Stähle’s store in Bad Dürrheim is an example of how a large store can be transformed by a makeover and the thoroughly impersonal made personal.
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GalleryIn pictures: Forever 21 Oxford Street flagship opens
US fast fashion chain Forever 21 has opened its doors on Oxford Street.
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NewsRetail Week Interiors Awards shortlist announced
Now in its 14th year, The New Store Europe Retail Week Interiors Awards will once again be recognising the best UK retail interiors and shopfitting.
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OpinionIn-store technology does not excite shoppers
The use of screens and ‘interactivity’ by retailers is not the clarion call that some suppose.
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NewsDixons to open Harrods concession
Currys and PC World-owner Dixons has struck an agreement to run the consumer electronics section in world-famous department store Harrods.
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GalleryNike 6.0 pop-up, Mondello, Sicily
Pop-up stores tend to be fairly ephemeral affairs, quite frequently here today and gone tomorrow and this one, from Nike, is no exception with a lifespan of just two months.
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GalleryHow retailers are selling the Sales
Roll up, roll up… it’s Sale time, and as retailers scramble to rid themselves of unwanted stock, Retail Week considers the many ways there are to skin a marked-down cat. John Ryan reports from Westfield London
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OpinionRetailers should consider a foreign holiday
Slowing consumer spending at home need not preclude splashing out overseas.
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GalleryM&M’s World: Sugar rush
Europe’s first M&M’s World has opened in Leicester Square, but is this about retailing or brand building? John Ryan reports
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AnalysisLocal hero
Morrisons is dipping its toe into the convenience market, the latest in a series of bold initiatives under new chief executive Dalton Philips. Tim Danaher travels to Yorkshire to see the results
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GalleryLittle Waitrose, Tottenham Court Road
You can tell you’re in central London from the packs of chorizo Iberico, the perimeter chiller devoted to sauces and ingredients for pasta and pizza, as well as the Italian deli-style arrangement of the dry ambient goods next to this.
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OpinionShoppers want service, not self-service.
A US retailer has called time on self-service checkouts, but is this the right thing and will there come a point when we embrace the potential speed that DIY transactions offer?
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GalleryDudley. Now more?
Asda has opened its first batch of high street stores following its Netto purchase. John Ryan reports on the Dudley store and how it has already become a hit with local shoppers.