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The Conran Shop: Designs on the future
The Conran Shop in Chelsea has traded for 25 years, but has been refurbished to give it greater relevance. John Ryan reports.
Steamer Trading: Recipe for success
Cookware specialist Steamer Trading has continued its trend for unique stores by refurbishing a Grade II building in the North. John Ryan tours the store with managing director Ben Phillips
Reinventing Waitrose
Almost four months, £15m of capital expenditure and a lot of hard work later, the refurbishment of Waitrose’s Canary Wharf flagship is complete. John Ryan visited before the grand reopening
The Next big thing
Next opened a store last week for its homewares, furniture and clothing offers with a DIY and gardening offshoot. John Ryan travelled to Shoreham-by-Sea to look at its latest innovation
How 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
A whole new lesson in Anthropologie
US lifestyle brand Anthropologie’s inspired visual merchandising rarely fails to impress, but is its third UK store and its first in Scotland sufficiently different from its London outposts? John Ryan visits
Swindon’s finest
BHS has followed the blueprint it revealed in Uxbridge almost a year ago with a series of new shops and modernisations, with the latest being in Swindon. John Ryan visits to assess the roll-out
John Lewis at Home: At home on the Purley Way
John Lewis has opened its second home-only store on Purley Way in Croydon, but are the locals keen customers? John Ryan reports
The Danish Tiger roars into Croydon
Variety retailer Tiger has set itself apart from the competition with a simple but effective design. John Ryan visits its Whitgift Centre store
Next Home: The Next chapter in homewares
Next Home’s new format store is a case of evolution rather than revolution, but that doesn’t make it a bad store, says John Ryan
Making sense of a bigger home
Homewares retailer HomeSense has opened a larger footprint store, but can shoppers make sense of their surroundings.
A change of Habitat
Habitat has introduced new elements at its latest store, in Liverpool One, but is it a format that could be used elsewhere.
Steamer Trading: A cook shop worth its salt
Kitchen retailer Steamer Trading has opened an architecturally bold store that is sure to impress. John Ryan gets a tour in historic Guildford.
Putting on the style at Homebase
Homebase has been working hard to improve the interior of its stores. John Ryan visits Basingstoke to see the latest stage in its design journey
Robert Dyas: Playing hard ball with hardware
Following Robert Dyas’s management buyout the hardware retailer wants to declutter its stores. John Ryan visits the Maidenhead test bed
The new Lakeland store demonstrates why the retailer is thriving
Lakeland’s new Stratford-upon-Avon store shows why the cookware retailer is thriving in a tough market. John Ryan goes to take a tour
Wilkinson
Value retailer Wilkinson is testing a new format in Leicester, Sheffield and Walton-on-Thames.
Clas Ohlson – Croydon
Scandi DIY retailer Clas Ohlson makes its UK debut in Croydon’s Whitgift Centre.
Marks & Spencer – Colliers Wood
The biggest store from Marks and Spencer in a decade is in a South London suburb.
HomeSense – Imperial Park, Bristol
HomeSense is the latest fascia from the American retail group that owns TK Maxx.
B&Q Sutton
This is the 38th store re-vamp carried out by the UK’s largest home improvement retailer.
Next Home - Barton Square
The Next Home store in Manchester’s Barton Square is the latest format thinking from the fashion and catalogue retailer.
Bhs Home – Barton Square
British Home Stores joined the Barton Square homewares party in April 2008.
Home & DIY In-Depth
10 ways to compete with Amazon
Amazon’s sales growth this week showed that the etailer continues to power on. It commands respect from retailers, but its relentless expansion also generates fear. We assess how retailers can best compete with the digital Goliath. Gemma Goldfingle and Alex Lawson report.
How to win spend and inspire people
Customers might think they don’t want to spend, but they may just need some gentle persuasion. Rebecca Thomson finds out how to get people shopping when they think they don’t want to.
Home & DIY News
Winter warmers drive John Lewis sales
John Lewis sales grew 6% to £52.5m in the week to February 4 as shoppers stocked up on winter warmers in the cold weather.
Store stocks rise as retailers refocus
Store stocks were on the up over the week as food and general merchandisers rose with the market, although the former still lagged the All Share index while the latter outperformed.
