All Stores and property articles – Page 376
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Opinion
Harsh but fair
Driving cost out of a supply chain means more than tough negotiations with suppliers over cost. There is the Tesco way.
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Analysis
Designer Villages
Outlet centres used to be where you went for cut-price clothing and a day out. But Italy is setting the trend for designer labels and stunning architecture. John Ryan travels there to find out more
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Opinion
Windows to watch: mechanical wonder
The line between art and visual merchandising is frequently blurred and nowhere is this more evident at present than in Selfridges’ windows, which allow passers-by a view into the new Wonder Room on the western corner of the Oxford Street flagship.
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National Geographic shop delayed as costs escalate
Europe’s first National Geographic store, which was slated to open this autumn, has been hit by delays and is now unlikely to open before April.
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Harrods T5 prepares for take-off
Harrods has almost completed the construction of its Heathrow Terminal 5 store, which will open in March.
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HMV opens gaming zone in Edinburgh
HMV will open a state-of-the-art gaming zone in its Edinburgh store today.
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Opinion
A world away from the big four
It doesn’t seem so long ago, not much more than a couple of years, that Somerfield appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough when it opened a market-style format. Stores in the south London suburbs of Carshalton and Dulwich were among the chosen few locations that seemed to ...
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Moss Bros opens first Simon Carter outlet
Moss Bros has opened a Simon Carter men’s fashion store next door to its Covent Garden flagship. Simon Carter is a range aimed at the same customer as Ted Baker, according to Moss Bros chief executive Philip Mountford.
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Opinion
The way that food retailing should be
John Lewis has finally revealed its Oxford Street food hall and it is worth a visit.
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Analysis
The new green
It’s one thing to build an eco store, but another to make an existing store green. John Ryan visits Bournemouth’s M&S to assess its green makeover
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Moss Bros opens first Simon Carter outlet
Moss Bros has opened a Simon Carter men’s fashion store next door to its Covent Garden flagship. Simon Carter is a range aimed at the same customer as Ted Baker, said to Moss Bros chief executive Philip Mountford.
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Orange rolls out new format after trial run
Mobile phone network Orange has begun rolling out the store format unveiled at Cribbs Causeway this summer.
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Moss Bros opens first Simon Carter outlet
Moss Bros has opened a Simon Carter men’s fashion store next door to its Covent Garden flagship. Simon Carter is a range aimed at the same customer as Ted Baker, according to Moss Bros chief executive Philip Mountford.
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Orange begins roll out of ‘modular’ fit
Mobile phone network Orange has begun rolling out the new format that it unveiled at Cribbs Causeway this summer.
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Opinion
The way that food retailing should be
John Lewis has finally revealed its Oxford Street food hall and it is worth a visit.
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News
New-look Next gets thumbs up from Wolfson
When a new store opens, it is usually quite easy to spot the chief executive. He’s the one around whom large numbers of suits are clustered, soaking up the praise for the way things look and keeping the staff on their toes.
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Fenwick to refit flagship store as group sales rise
Upmarket department store chain Fenwick has posted robust profits and sales and is poised to further overhaul its flagship Newcastle store to drive sales.
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Retail Interiors Awards 2007
Retail design’s great and relatively good assembled at the Hilton on Park Lane on Monday night for the 10th Retail Interiors Awards. Competition was keener than ever, with all awards hotly contested. In addition to the well-established categories, Store of the Decade was introduced this year to celebrate the awards’ ...
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Opinion
So how green is Wal-Mart?
Head: So how green is Wal-Mart?By John RyanTravel broadens the mind and while this may or may not be the case, sitting at a retail design conference in Atlanta this week, listening to Charles Zimmerman, was certainly educational.Zimmerman is a senior Wal-Mart apparatchik and he was instructing delegates in energy-saving ...
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Opinion
Don’t go on the first day
One of the more rewarding aspects of covering retail design is that you get to see things before customers do. This means, for example, that the evening before the near-riot that took place when Primark opened its Oxford Street flagship this summer, the press were invited in to sip champagne-style ...