Store Design & Visual Merchandising
The latest store format innovations, store design trends and visual merchandising, including the latest store image galleries by John Ryan.
Store gallery: Does in-store design lead to higher shop revenue?
In-store design increasingly includes digital elements but does that lead to higher shop revenue or are the innovations serving another purpose?
Store gallery: Oasis refreshes store look at Trinity Leeds
Fashion retailer Oasis was looking a bit stale, but now it has a store template that represents the future.
Store gallery: Bullring shopping centre boosts Birmingham’s retail offer
Birmingham city’s Bullring shopping centre and locality add up to an impressive offer and a retail destination.
Store of the week
Store of the week: Marks & Spencer, Kalverstraat, Amsterdam
Stores with touchscreens are commonplace these days - all part of the multichannel/omnichannel (call it what you will) effort that retailers hope will help them accrue incremental revenues.
Store of the week: HEB, Montrose, Houston
The US is frequently characterised as a country with relatively few coast-to-coast operators, but that has a host of large regional players that dominate a particular state or cluster of states.
Store of the week: 14oz, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
This is a store that would be way beyond the means of most retailers to create and maintain, but this is a denim-led offer.
Digital edition
Digital edition: Retail Week Interiors - Spring 2013
Read Retail Week Interiors as a fully digital edition.
Stores In-Depth
In pictures: Marks & Spencer interactive store in Amsterdam
Marks & Spencer has opened a compact store on Amsterdam’s Kalverstraat that puts digital at the heart of the enterprise.
Comment: Supergroup stores show what matters
Retailers need good stores as much as good stock if they are to succeed in the current climate.
Store Design News
Maplin profits dip by 33.6% as it eyes international growth
Maplin’s profits took a hit in the first year of its investment plan for growth as the retailer marks out countries for overseas expansion.
Video: Furniture giant Ikea opens pop-up shops in London train stations
Ikea has opened pop-up shops in London train stations Liverpool Street and Waterloo as part of its ‘make more of your garden’ campaign.
