All Store design & interiors articles – Page 13
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News
Intu Watford ploughs £1m into grab-and-go food offer
Intu Watford is ploughing £1m into a new grab-and-go food proposition as it ramps up its catering credentials.
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Analysis
Showfields: the ‘most interesting store in the world’?
While the wellness trend is typically closely associated with America’s West Coast, New York is home to a multitude of retailers with wellbeing at their heart.
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Opinion
Opinion: 'Tis the season to welcome everyone's pound
This year marked a turning point for retailers. We saw the profits of high street darling John Lewis drop 99% and, arguably for the first time, challenges extended into ecommerce as Asos issued a shock profit warning.
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Analysis
In pictures: The seven best new stores of 2018
2018 may have been marked by mass store closures, but there have also been high-profile openings. John Ryan takes a look at what’s been happening.
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Gallery
Store gallery: Morrisons opens first 'food market court'
Morrisons has unveiled its first ‘food market court’ in the latest of its store overhauls.
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Analysis
Retail Reimagined: Building the shopping centre 2.0
In the latest instalment of our Retail Reimagined series, Luke Tugby maps out the shopping centre of the future.
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Opinion
Opinion: The birth of the ‘department store supermarket’?
The new Sainsbury’s in Selly Oak has all the hallmarks of a department store, but does this mean it is one? John Ryan finds out.
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Analysis
Analysis: Sainsbury's strikes new direction in Selly Oak
In today’s turbulent and unforgiving retail market, some might suggest there is little room for experimentation.
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News
Ikea could axe 350 UK jobs in global restructure
Ikea has revealed plans to axe 350 UK jobs as part of a global restructure as it bids to cater for a changing customer profile.
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Gallery
In pictures: H&M Home at Westfield London
H&M has opened its first standalone home store in the UK at Westfield London in Shepherd’s Bush.
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Opinion
Opinion: Why Amazon 4-Star should be better
A visit to the freshly minted Amazon 4-Star emporium in New York’s SoHo on Saturday was instructive.
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Opinion
Are hi-tech stores with a low-tech mask the way forward?
Some of the most digitally savvy outfits on the high street want to look anything but. It’s about making shoppers feel at home.
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Opinion
M&S Marble Arch: Nice service, shame about the shop
Brilliant service, product that does the job, but why is nothing much done about the M&S flagship as a whole?
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Opinion
Single category or catch-all store – which is better?
Ikea’s new Planning Studio, mainly for kitchen browsers, is a thing of beauty, but are other shoppers being short-changed in the retailer’s rush to please the urban elite?
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Analysis
In pictures: Outfit – making multi-brand retail feel unified
Arcadia’s catch-all brand Outfit has been given a facelift, but can this fascia be a brand in its own right?
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Video
Watch: Ikea unveils city centre format in strategic shift
Ikea has launched its first new-format city centre store on London’s Tottenham Court Road.
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Opinion
Opinion: Lessons for Whole Foods from Planet Organic
Planet Organic, which has just been sold to investor Inverleith, specialises in selling “responsibly produced” provisions where the big food industry plays little part.
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Analysis
Analysis: Will Amazon's 4-star store move the dial?
The ever-experimental Amazon has launched its latest foray into bricks and mortar. Last week, the etail titan unveiled Amazon 4-star in New York.
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Opinion
Opinion: Apps, not in-store screens, are the future
Burberry has just finished a revamp of its global flagship on Regent Street and one thing that is apparent is that much-vaunted tech, trumpeted when the store opened in 2012, has been largely stripped out.