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GalleryStore gallery: Small is beautiful for John Lewis
The department store group has opened its first smaller format shop in Exeter, showing off a little bit of everything.
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GalleryStore of the week: Evans, Oxford Street
The new Evans store on Oxford Street is different to what went before. John Ryan takes a look.
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GalleryIn pictures: Blacks new store model
Outdoors specialist Blacks may have come up with a new model at its St Pauls store that will prove the solution to its problems.
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NewsWHSmith launches new formats as it grows travel division
WHSmith is trialling new travel store formats, including a kids’ toy and book store, to optimise its use of store space.
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OpinionComment: WHSmith, where less is more
Unchanging interiors and falling sales – what makes WHSmith so efficient…and good?
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GalleryIn pictures: WHSmith's pilot stationery format
WHSmith last week launched another new fascia, WHSmith Office to tap into local demographics and compete with rival stationery specialists.
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GalleryIn pictures: John Lewis' first small department store, Exeter
John Lewis will open its first small department store in Exeter on Friday.
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GalleryStore gallery: New beginnings at Kiddicare
The baby products retailer has opened up in the first of 10 former Best Buy stores, and service is at its heart.
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GalleryStore of the week: Hotel Chocolat, Luton Airport
Anyone visiting a major high street or shopping centre is likely to be familiar with Hotel Chocolat, the upscale purveyor of chocolates where the store environment is almost as important as the product itself.
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AnalysisIn pictures: What are the new season visual merchandising trends in Paris?
While London’s retailers greet the new season with a wave of discounting, in Paris the value message is much more muted.
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AnalysisStore Gallery: Sainsbury’s, Hertford
The arrival of Sainsbury’s in Hertford draws a line in the sand for the supermarket that wants to be “number one locally”.
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AnalysisStore gallery: Mothercare’s revamped north London flagship
Mothercare’s revamped UK flagship in north London is a beacon of sector best practice, but can it be replicated?
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GalleryStore gallery: Primark's Tottenham Court Road store
Primark ’s second store at the junction of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road combines value and volume on an enormous scale.
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GalleryStore of the week: K-Town, Cologne
How do you take a 19,000 sq ft space with a 10 ft high ceiling in a German department store and make something of it?
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AnalysisIn pictures: Tesco backed coffee shop, Harris & Hoole
Tesco may be backing ‘artisan’ coffee shop Harris & Hoole but the cafe has a very distinct identity of its own.
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AnalysisAnalysis: From store design to shopfit
The majority of shopfitters fit shops while the majority of shop designers design them. Northern Italian shopfitting giant Schweitzer does both.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Hotel Chocolat's successful design strategy
Since the first Hotel Chocolat opened in 2004, it’s become a thriving chain of shops and cafes. We look at how design has aided its success.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Using visual merchandising to your advantage
As the sunshine finally shone in the early autumn, London’s visual merchandisers were faced with the dilemma of whether windows should shift seasons or stock. Mark Faithfull looks at how they managed.
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OpinionComment: Why in-store iPads may be rubbish
Handled the wrong way, in-store multichannel options are as likely to prove redundant for shoppers as the enduring myth that we all like to scan QR codes.
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NewsCountrywide invests £2m in lowering prices
Rural products retailer Countrywide has invested £2m in “stamping down prices” to combat difficult consumer spending conditions.