All Stores and property articles – Page 298
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OpinionRe-evaluating the store
Five years ago, a typical non-food prime site retailer starting out and looking to reach its optimum market might have targeted as many as 200 sites to trade from.
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OpinionCreating better stores
Clinton Cards is changing its management and stores, but there is much to be done.
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GalleryCoffee shops and retail
Coffee shops may not be footfall drivers, but they increase dwell time. How can retailers best add them to their mix, asks John Ryan
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Gallery
Dobbies, Peterborough
There are moments when it’s a little easy to be somewhat cynical about the green movement and its retail manifestations, but the eco department in Dobbies’ new garden centre in Peterborough goes some way towards restoring flagging faith.
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NewsSimply Be to open first bricks-and-mortar store
Home shopping group N Brown is to open its first bricks-and-mortar store for its plus-size brand Simply Be at Liverpool One on September 22.
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NewsCoast returns to its occasionwear roots and shows off new format
Fashion chain Coast is to go back to its occasionwear roots as it launches a new store format to attract a wider audience.
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GalleryIn pictures: Selfridges windows go product-free
Selfridges Oxford Street has launched The Museum of Everything show with art across its whole frontage.
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NewsH&M brand Monki launches in UK
H&M-owned quirky girls brand Monki launches in the UK today with a concession in department store Selfridges’ Oxford Street store.
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Opinion
Once more unto the shops dear friends
Shopping and leisure were once synonymous in the UK. If the offer’s right, they still are.
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GalleryNew river flows into Swindon
Fashion retailer River Island has trialled a new look for its store in Swindon and it is likely to be replicated elsewhere. By John Ryan
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NewsHarvey Nichols close to signing beauty sites
Harvey Nichols is close to signing its first new format Beauty Bazaar shops as it eyes store numbers in the double-digits.
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NewsFat Face returns to premium roots as it eyes international expansion
Fat Face wants to show off its quality credentials with the launch of a premium collection as it eyes international expansion.
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NewsGoldsmiths launches new boutique format
Jeweller Goldsmiths launches its new boutique format in Stratford City in September featuring jewellery vending machines and a ‘chill-out zone’.
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NewsFunky Pigeon trial stores open
WHSmith has opened its first three Funky Pigeon shops, selling stationery and greetings cards.
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GalleryVans Spitalfields, London
Blink and it’s gone and as you read this, the removal men will only be a couple of weeks away from descending on Spitalfields to empty the Vans pop-up store that has been trading on Brushfield Street since August 12.
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OpinionStrictly come M&S
Marks & Spencer’s move into the world of TV light entertainment looks, at first sight, a questionable strategy.
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GalleryQuiksilver, Fistral Beach, Newquay
Fistral Beach in Newquay is, for many, surf central UK, or at least that’s where you may go if you want to imagine yourself a bronzed god (or goddess), effortlessly riding the waves coming in from the Atlantic.
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GalleryIn pictures: M&S unveils Westfield Stratford store
Marks & Spencer was handed the keys to its Westfield Stratford City store on Tuesday, when manager Lee Boon and his team moved in to prepare for the flagship mall’s opening on September 13.
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GalleryThe 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
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OpinionThe Next DIY store
Retailers’ brand extensions may work better as high street standalones than catchall behemoths.