All Stores and property articles – Page 339
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Gallery
Store of the week: Oil & Vinegar, Newcastle
To judge from what’s happening in the wider economy, you might think that being a niche retailer is not the finest thing in the world at the moment.
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Opinion
Primark: good housekeeping
Hoover the floor, change the sheets, clean the windows. All of these activities come under the umbrella term “housekeeping” and are what most people do a little of from time to time. It’s also a word used in retailing to indicate that the floors have indeed been polished, the carpets ...
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News
Kwik Save’s Spanish revival
Discount grocer Kwik Save, which went into administration in July 2007, has been resurrected on the Costa del Sol.
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Analysis
Video: DSGi opens joint Currys and PC World format
DSGi is trialling a joint Currys and PC World format in Weybridge, Surrey. Retail Week took a tour of the new store.
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GalleryTesco – Cheetham Hill, Manchester
A 52,000 sq ft eco-store opened in Manchester’s Cheetham Hill district on January 12, 2009.
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News
Canterbury to expand in the UK
Rugby brand and retailer Canterbury plans to open between three and six more stores in this country and Ireland during 2009.
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Opinion
M&S was right to spend on stores
There was a time, not very long ago, when Marks & Spencer store interiors were frequently described as “Stalinist”. The inference was that while the stock might have been OK, the store design department had been virtually non-existent and the shops had been preserved in aspic from some point in ...
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Gallery
Store of the week: Sony Style, Paris
One of the complaints often levelled against technology retailers is that however slick their products, the shops themselves are cold, impersonal spaces. Sony has attempted to overcome this in the French capital with its Sony Style flagship store.
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AnalysisNew Waitrose format: How convenient
Waitrose has finally moved into the convenience market with its first c-store in Nottingham. John Ryan takes a tour to find out how the grocer plans to differentiate itself in the sector.
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News
Adams to close 111 stores
Adams Childrenswear will close 111 stores today, creating 850 redundancies, following the collapse of the retail chain.
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Gallery
Store of the week: Southern Co-op, Southampton
It's not often that an outfit like a co-op would merit inclusion as a store where design is one of its central selling points, but this Southern Co-op outpost is at least as good as any food to go meets convenience store that's out there.
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Opinion
Wilkinson an example to all retailers
Just before Christmas, a trip to a store in Leicester revealed what is, in today's climate, a curiosity.
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News
Retail rents fall for first time in 15 years
Retail rents fell for the first time in 15 years in 2008 and are not expected to return to growth until 2013.
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Opinion
Store designers may yet still be busy in 2009
Word has reached this desk that things aren’t likely to be all that in 2009 and that 2008 hasn’t really been all it might have been either. In the face of this information it seems churlish to point out that the year has seen a rash of new, fine-looking shops ...
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Gallery
Store of the week: Globus, Mumbai
In these troubled times, when even Russia has announced that it has gone into recession, India is one of the world’s few remaining economic highlights.
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NewsHollister to press ahead with Continental push
Abercrombie & Fitch sister brand Hollister is to defy the economic slowdown as it forges ahead with a Continental European roll-out.
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Opinion
Westfield holding its own
Back in Westfield, probably for the last time this year, the retail thrill-seekers are gone and in their place are shoppers and a lot of hungry people.
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News
Suit Supply reveals second UK store at Westfield London
Dutch retailer Suit Supply opened its second store in the UK last week at Westfield London.
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News
Waitrose unveils convenience store
Waitrose opened its first convenience store yesterday, in Nottingham. The 5,815 sq ft (540 sq m) shop, in the city's Trinity Square, is located opposite the John Lewis department store and is the first of a four-branch convenience store trial.