All Store design & interiors articles – Page 71
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GalleryStore of the week: K-Town, Cologne
How do you take a 19,000 sq ft space with a 10 ft high ceiling in a German department store and make something of it?
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AnalysisIn pictures: Tesco backed coffee shop, Harris & Hoole
Tesco may be backing ‘artisan’ coffee shop Harris & Hoole but the cafe has a very distinct identity of its own.
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AnalysisAnalysis: From store design to shopfit
The majority of shopfitters fit shops while the majority of shop designers design them. Northern Italian shopfitting giant Schweitzer does both.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Hotel Chocolat's successful design strategy
Since the first Hotel Chocolat opened in 2004, it’s become a thriving chain of shops and cafes. We look at how design has aided its success.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Using visual merchandising to your advantage
As the sunshine finally shone in the early autumn, London’s visual merchandisers were faced with the dilemma of whether windows should shift seasons or stock. Mark Faithfull looks at how they managed.
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OpinionComment: Why in-store iPads may be rubbish
Handled the wrong way, in-store multichannel options are as likely to prove redundant for shoppers as the enduring myth that we all like to scan QR codes.
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NewsCountrywide invests £2m in lowering prices
Rural products retailer Countrywide has invested £2m in “stamping down prices” to combat difficult consumer spending conditions.
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GalleryIn pictures: Kiddicare poised to open first standalone store
Morrisons-owned Kiddicare opens its first standalone store (it already has a 50,000 sq ft store that forms part of its head office and distribution depot complex in Peterborough) on Wednesday as it reveals the use to which it will put the 10 sites it acquired from Best Buy earlier this year.
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GalleryStore of the week: Wrangler, Leipzig, Germany
Jeans brand Wrangler has opened its first standalone store in Germany with a new design that it plans to roll out across Europe.
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GalleryStore gallery: Burberry Regent Street - a vision of luxury retail
The retailer’s newly opened Regent Street global flagship is as much a digital haven as a super-luxe environment.
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OpinionComment: John Lewis creates instore magic
At the age of five I knew I loved retail. I was standing with my parents in the middle of Norwich’s branch of John Lewis – then known as Bonds.
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GalleryIn pictures: First look at Primark's Tottenham Court Road flagship
Primark opens its Tottenham Court Road flagship tomorrrow with a burst of new in-store features and a store that, at 82,000 sq ft, is a little over 10,000 sq ft larger than the Marble Arch store at the other end of Oxford Street.
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GalleryStore of the week: Uniqlo, Rue Scribe, Paris
Sometimes the best things are the simplest. This is the Uniqlo store just around the corner from the Opéra in Paris and while this is a retailer normally best known for embracing hi-tech buildings, fabrics and visual merchandising, here it’s a matter of back to basics.
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GalleryStore gallery: John Lewis pop-up, Exeter
The department store group has opened a temporary shop in Exeter as a precursor to a full-line store in October.
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GalleryStore of the week: Levi’s, Regent Street
Doing things in a flagship is easy. Money is usually available and the labour to turn a vision into reality is also normally on hand.
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OpinionComment: Retailers should look to efficiency to improve customer experience
These days more consumers are making the internet their first choice shopping destination, putting pressure on physical retailers.
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GalleryStore gallery: Marks & Spencer’s Cheshire Oaks new concept store
Marks & Spencer said today that its new concept store at Cheshire Oaks has delivered a sales performance that is 30% ahead of plan. John Ryan took a trip to the store shortly after it opened in August.
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GalleryIn pictures: Dawsons Music opens revamped flagship store
Musical instruments retailer Dawsons Music has revamped its flagship store in Reading to create a “musicians haven”.
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NewsThe Works reports strong sales growth
Discount bookseller The Works has continued the strong performance it notched up in the second half of last year with “positive” like-for-likes since year end.
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GalleryIn pictures: Burberry opens on Regent Street
The long-awaited Burberry global flagship on Regent Street has opened.