All Stores and property articles – Page 301
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NewsWorse to come?
More misery expected as retailers collapse and pressure on disposable income mounts
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OpinionAt the crossroads
The fourth Retail Week Interiors finds the retail design industry at something of a turning point.
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AnalysisDoes store design matter?
When trade is sticky, is there any point in digging deep to redesign stores? We ask four of those for whom design is a central preoccupation to justify their chosen discipline
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AnalysisThe innovation generation
Tough times in the retail sector have undoubtedly reduced R&D budgets but the industry continues to prove itself capable of genuine innovation. By Mark Faithfull
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News
Walmart to launch new store format
Walmart is to launch a new store format called Urban 90 in east Toronto in January 2012. Walmart Canada’s president and chief executive David Cheesewright said the initial urban store would be on a 4.5 acre site, roughly half the size of a typical Walmart site. Walmart also announced it ...
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GalleryCarrefour, Aubervilliers, Paris
All too often, you get to see a ‘concept’ store from which you are told ‘learnings’ will be extracted
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Opinion
Habitat’s London stores may still not survive
You have to wonder whether all three of the remaining UK Habitat store are enjoying a temporary stay of execution.
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GalleryA 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
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OpinionIceland is not for sale
Vultures are supposedly circling, but Iceland is fighting fit and battle-ready, says Malcolm Walker
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AnalysisBusiness as usual, but faster
Retailers are adjusting to the new post-recession market, which means never allowing their businesses to stand still. By Joanna Perry
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NewsCath Kidston opens in St Pancras
Kitsch homewares and fashion retailer Cath Kidston has opened its first shop in a train station, in St Pancras International, London.
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OpinionRead up and smell the coffee
The news last Friday that Starbucks took a £10m hit in the UK last year from the collapse of the Borders bookshop chain offers a piquant reflection on the ongoing transformation of our high streets from retail strips of independent and multiple stores (with banks, and estate agents aplenty) into elongated food courts.
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OpinionPower List 2011: All change for retail’s high-flyers
This is the sixth year of Retail Week’s Power List, but the first time we’ve had a change at the top.
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OpinionPicking a winner is easy
As consumer sentiment hardens, identifying retailers that are doing what they should is more straightforward than ever.
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GallerySwindon’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
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GalleryRabot Estate, London
Tucked under the arches of London Bridge, in the foodie haven that is Borough Market, is the latest venture by Hotel Chocolat founders Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris: the Rabot Estate store.
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NewsKingfisher targets aspirational shoppers with Polish revamp
Kingfisher is revamping its Polish business to focus on higher-margin, aspirational products as the DIY group ramps up its own-brand offer in the country.
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NewsGap remodels Old Navy
Clothing retailer Gap is to remodel its discount clothing chain Old Navy, abandoning its surplus feel in favour of a more modern lookThe new store arrangement organises clothes into areas based on outfit types to encourage more impulse purchases.Store designers have moved the checkout area and changing rooms to the ...
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GalleryNike Town, Oxford Circus
The Champions League celebrations in Barcelona and Wembley seem a rather distant memory a few weeks on, but Nike Town did its best to prolong things
with an in-store event that seemed to be capturing the imagination of everyone entering the store.