All Store design & interiors articles – Page 68
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NewsDixons launches in-store bunker for gaming fanatics
Dixons has launched a ‘Gaming Bunker’ to allow gamers to trial some of the highest-specification gaming technology on the market.
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OpinionComment: Wake up and smell the coffee shops
Time was when we used to be pretty happy with a cup of dark liquid that didn’t taste of much in particular and which was dispensed from a glass flask containing what was claimed to be “filter coffee”.
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GalleryWindow of the week: Fashion retailer, Topshop, Oxford Circus, London
At the top end of the market, there are times when it might seem that success in visual merchandising is posited upon throwing large amounts of time and money at a window.
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GalleryStore gallery: Whole Foods Market branches out to Cheltenham retail park
The majority of Whole Foods Market stores in this country are, with the exception of the leviathan flagship on Kensington High Street, modestly sized and in affluent metropolitan locations.
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OpinionComment: Discount fashion - when more really is less
News that value-clothing chain Store Twenty One is pleading with landlords for rent reductions should not be entirely surprising.
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GalleryStore of the week: The Harry Potter Shop, King’s Cross, London
There’s been a luggage trolley in the new departures hall of London’s King’s Cross station that appears to be disappearing into a wall for some time now. Above it is the legend ‘Platform 9¾’.
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GalleryStore gallery: Urban Outfitters Marble Arch store opens with a twist
Urban Outfitters has opened in the Park House development at Marble Arch and the store is very different from the other London branches. John Ryan visits.
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OpinionComment: The pace of retail quickens
January is the month when not much happens in retail traditionally.
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GalleryStore gallery: Fashion retailers show off new season via window displays
As the Christmas Sales draw to an end, what are retailers on London’s Oxford Street doing to banish the winter blues and usher in the new shopping season? John Ryan reports.
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GalleryStore of the week: Sportswear retailer, Nike AF1 SoHo, New York
First there were sports shoe shops. Then there were running shoe shops. Now there are shops dedicated to a single sports shoe - well, almost. Welcome Nike’s AF1 store, New York.
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GalleryStore gallery: New York’s latest store looks
John Ryan tours the city’s stores to discover what has changed since the last visit to coincide with the National Retail Federation convention in the Big Apple.
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GalleryStore of the week: Fashion retailer Shasa, Cancun, Mexico
Shasa, the Mexican fashion retailer that also has shops across Texas, opened this store in Mexico City in October - a good example of a space where the architecture dominates.
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GalleryStore of the week: Food retailer Longo’s flagship, Toronto, Canada
Longo’s is a family owned grocer that operates 24 stores in the Greater Toronto area, and this one, in Maple Leaf Square in the city’s downtown area, is its flagship.
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GalleryStore gallery: Loblaws takes a fresh approach to food retailing
Canadian based retailer Loblaws has turned the conventional supermarket format on its head in its Toronto flagship. John Ryan investigates what they are doing differently.
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GalleryStore of the week: ST Dupont, Seoul, South Korea
ST Dupont is a Parisian luxury accessories retailer and you could be forgiven for not having heard of it, as it has managed to maintain a resolutely low profile this side of the Channel.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sweatshop stays ahead of the competition
Running gear retailer Sweatshop is a step ahead of the competition with a new store in the City packed with product and specialist equipment.
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GalleryStore of the week: G-Star Raw, Shanghai
Denim brand G-Star Raw has continued its relentless global expansion with the opening of a second store in Shanghai.
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GalleryStore gallery: Shanghai takes store design to the next level
The Chinese city may have many familiar retailers but the stores take things to a new level.
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GalleryStore of the week: Uniqlo, Shanghai
Uniqlo has already featured as a store of the week during 2012 (in Paris), but there are few excuses for not affording it space once more because the Shanghai flagship, on the West Nanjing Road, does things that other branches do not.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sainsbury’s King’s Lynn opens with a fashionable new look
Sainsbury’s has opened a new store in King’s Lynn that breaks a few of the accepted rules about supermarket design.