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Retail Focus
JUNE 22, 2021
Unfortunately for many department stores, the pandemic has been a final blow in the battle with online retail, spiralling real estate costs and difficulty serving up physical retail that is consistently experiential, engaging and adaptable.
Inside Retail
AUGUST 19, 2021
Amazon.com is to open several department stores in its home US market to test the concept as it continues to build out its multichannel business model. Department stores’ share of the overall US market has fallen from 14.5
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Inside Retail
JUNE 30, 2021
Businesses that offer customers both physical and online store options tend to see higher customer engagement and sales. per cent (RM95 billion in total retail sales), and all retail sub-sectors such as fashion, department stores and grocery are expected to rebound.
Inside Retail
APRIL 6, 2022
We have ‘iconic’ shopping centres, ‘iconic’ retail stores, ‘iconic’ restaurants, ‘iconic’ hotels, ‘iconic’ rock groups. But Takashimaya, a retailer of 1831 vintage and still the largest department store chain in Japan, is surely genuinely deserving of the word.
Retail Focus
APRIL 21, 2022
Lotte enlisted London luxury retail designers Shed , known for a distinctly contemporary and progressive international design style, to reimagine a ‘different kind’ of department store, Lotte’s first major project in 7 years. News Projects Property Lotte Department Store Shed Design
Inside Retail
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
Department store Myer failed to avoid a second strike after its Remuneration Report received only ~65 per cent of shareholder votes, triggering a board spill that was ultimately avoided. Business Department stores Featured Post HR Latest Management Sectors Myer
Inside Retail
AUGUST 22, 2021
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that online retail giant Amazon is looking to open large bricks-and-mortar stores in the US to sell clothing, homewares, electronics and other products, much like a department store. Why would Amazon open a department store?
Retail Focus
MARCH 14, 2022
A-COLD-WALL* has announced the launch of a second Seoul concept store-in-store this month. Located on the fourth floor of the storied Lotte Department Store, part of the MAN’s fashion division, this new site brings to life Samuel Ross’ singular vision across fifty-three square metres.
VMS
MARCH 8, 2022
Kohl’s (Menomonee Falls, WI) announced a bold change of direction on Monday, saying it wants to pivot from a department store into “a focused lifestyle concept,” Retail Dive reports. Remodeling existing stores when a new Sephora shop-in-shop is introduced.
Inside Retail
JULY 28, 2021
Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Create differentiated in-store experiences. Australian department stores should feel optimistic about the future.
Retail Touch
MARCH 9, 2022
As the American mall undergoes a period of radical reinvention, department stores are being brought along for the ride. As department stores and retailers change, the central question is how do you bring people back ?” Department Stores’ Return to Their Roots.
Retail Focus
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store.
365 Retail
JUNE 22, 2021
Unfortunately for many department stores, the pandemic has been a final blow in the battle with online retail, spiralling real estate costs and difficulty serving up physical retail that is consistently experiential, engaging and adaptable.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Australian department store David Jones has become the latest retailer to sell pre-owned clothing following the announcement of its partnership with Sydney-based luxury reseller Blue Spinach last week. The post David Jones is the latest department store to embrace resale.
Retail Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2021
The sector is having a good holiday season after bouncing back this year as consumers refreshed their closets. But its problems haven't gone away
365 Retail
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store.
Inside Retail
MAY 11, 2021
Selfridges has just raised the bar when it comes to giving customers an experience they’ll never forget with the launch of micro-weddings at its London store this summer. A part of that narrative has been to move to experiential retail and maximise its unique offerings and services in-store.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
The concept store may prove the company's agility and ability to bring in new audiences
Retail Dive
AUGUST 11, 2021
Department stores still have a strong value proposition, if only they can reimagine their experience, write Alvarez and Marsal's Mohit Mohal and Jonathan Sharp
VMS
APRIL 10, 2022
is a store straight from your childhood dreams. It follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, the American Dream store in East Rutherford, N.J., which is dubbed the first ever “candy department store.”. “At I T’SUGAR (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Retail Touch
AUGUST 19, 2021
Amazon is continuing its advance into brick-and-mortar with plans for a series of large-footprint department store-style locations, according to the Wall Street Journal , which cited people familiar with the matter.
Retail Touch
JULY 27, 2021
Selfridges ’ owners have launched a formal auction to sell the department store chain, which has been valued as high as £4 billion ( $5.5 A successful deal could see two of the UK’s most historic department stores coming together under a single owner.
VMS
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? Opening any store requires an exact timeline.
Retail Dive
JANUARY 28, 2022
The retail giant seems to be taking a page from Target's revamp, which in turn has embraced some of the best elements of old school merchandising
Dezeen
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. The quadrant encompasses the beauty department. The department store is located in Berlin.
Retail Touch
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
For more than 150 years, Parisian department store La Samaritaine has overlooked the banks of the Seine, a sweeping expanse of glass and intricately painted iron that proudly proclaimed the store’s position at the center of French commerce, both geographically and ideologically.
Retail Dive
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
Those who've declared the Saks online-offline split a success now want the same for Macy's and Kohl's. Here's why they're vulnerable
Retail Dive
AUGUST 19, 2021
The e-commerce giant has yet to conquer brick and mortar, but there may be a lot of opportunity to grab share using a model that has let itself go
VMS
AUGUST 19, 2021
Seattle) has announced its intentions to open a new retail experience, similar to a department store, The Wall Street Journal reports. There’s no official confirmation of what the company plans to sell in store, but speculation is that their own private labels will be heavily showcased.
Inside Retail
APRIL 27, 2021
Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry.
Retail Dive
OCTOBER 12, 2021
Now it's facing the unfortunate prospect of another retailer's logo splashed upon its hometown flagship, just in time for its famous Thanksgiving parade
Retail Dive
JANUARY 10, 2022
At the dawn of the 21st century, the 160-year-old retailer expanded amid the sector's steep decline. What now
Retail Dive
MARCH 8, 2022
The retailer will open 100 smaller, hyperlocal stores and grow its new Sephora shops into a $2 billion business. The activists on its case aren't impressed
VMS
OCTOBER 6, 2021
The retail and tech punditry were abuzz following a recent report from The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) spelling out what Amazon (Seattle) has planned for its department stores, the e-commerce giant’s latest foray into brick and mortar.
A1 Retail
JULY 20, 2021
Launching at Westfield London on 30 September, Situ Live is a fresh take on the traditional department store. The venue will feature an everchanging curation of world-class brands—from household names to cutting-edge technology you will not find in any other stores. At Situ Live shoppers will be able to pick the right products for them from a carefully curated edit and will be able to understand how to get the most out of them, guided by our expert store staff.
A1 Retail
MAY 24, 2021
Oslo’s luxury, contemporary department store Steen & Strøm, which is managed by Promenaden Management, is officially relaunched today following a major NOK 300 million (£25.7 Steen & Strøm first opened in 1797 and is the oldest running luxury department store in the world.
Retail Dive
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
The retailer's perpetual diminishment continues, with only a few dozen large-format stores left under its namesake and Kmart brands
Inside Retail
MAY 8, 2022
Discount department store Big W has partnered with recycling platform TerraCycle to launch a toy recycling scheme in all 176 stores nationwide. After a trial in limited stores, the retailers’ Toys for Joy program collected over 18 tonnes of old toys.
Inside Retail
APRIL 20, 2022
Harvey Nichols has introduced the world’s first blue-chip non-fungible tokens (NFT) retail concept space located inside a luxury department store dubbed ‘HN NFT Vault’ at the retailer’s Pacific Place store in Hong Kong.
Dezeen
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Japanese studio Lighting Planners Associates lit a white tree-like canopy for the interior refurbishment of the historic Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store in Tokyo. The first floor of Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store has been refurbished.
Inside Retail
MARCH 30, 2022
Australian department-store Harris Scarfe will open two new stores in Melbourne on April 7. Harris Scarfe CEO Graham Dean said the new stores will be a ‘welcoming boost’ for the economy. . Department stores Openings & closings Sectors Stores Top Stories Harris Scarfe
Retail Wire
AUGUST 19, 2021
Amazon.com plans to open several large retail stores in California and Ohio that will offer many of the popular apparel, consumer electronics, household and other brands sold in major retail chains.
Retail Times
MAY 24, 2021
Oslo’s luxury, contemporary department store Steen & Strøm, which is managed by Promenaden Management, has officially relaunched following a major NOK 300 million (£25.7 The completed investment works to the more than 220-year-old iconic department store include a brand-new entrance onto Norway’s busiest shopping street for the first time in its history, a state-of-the-art beauty hall and upgraded architecture which introduces a stunning new atrium.
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