All Store of the week articles – Page 4
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GalleryStore gallery: Uniqlo opens store in historic Le Marais, Paris
Uniqlo has opened its fifth store in Paris and the notion of mixing the very new with the distinctly old has made it unique.
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GalleryStore gallery: Evans rolls out its new look at Bluewater
As Evans’ new look reaches its Bluewater branch, we discuss the challenges facing retail chains when roll-out time beckons.
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GalleryStore gallery: Budgens supermarket, Islington
The days of the impersonal faceless supermarket are increasingly a thing of the past as even the biggest retailers seek to forge a link with local shoppers in an attempt to convince that a store is relevant to a location, rather than just being a part of a roll-out.
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GalleryStore gallery: Replay fuses technology with vintage in Barcelona store
Mixing high-tech and vintage under one roof is a tricky thing to pull off, but when done well it works to the advantage of both.
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GalleryStore gallery: Galeries Lafayette recreates French flagship glamour in Beijing
Galeries Lafayette is intimately associated with France and more specifically with Paris’ Boulevard Haussmann. With the exception of its shop in central Berlin, this has always been a French department store proposition.
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GalleryStore gallery: Lyle & Scott designs Carnaby Street store around Scottish heritage
Sometimes delving deep into a retail brand’s heritage can be the most effective way of creating something new when opening a store.
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GalleryStore gallery: Toy Shop Selfridges – toy merchandising at its best
With the exception of Hamleys, the Regent Street/Oxford Street area makes for pretty slim pickings for kids when it comes to toys, shopping and having a retail experience, but things are changing.
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GalleryStore gallery: Vitsoe pop-up shows retailers a good way to collaborate
The Vitsoe pop-up shop has just closed after a brief one-week existence, but this mayfly of the retail world does much to illustrate a potential way forward for retailers looking to make more of what they do by collaborating with others.
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GalleryStore gallery: Shanghai Tang opens in former art deco cinema
What do you do with a 1930s art deco cinema that has fame locally but that is in need of restoration? In Shanghai the answer is that you turn it into a store for luxury Chinese fashion and accessories brand Shanghai Tang.
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GalleryStore gallery: Carrefour pilots organic store in Paris
Stores selling organic produce are relatively commonplace these days, but they tend to be small outfits or expensive, or very frequently both.
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GalleryStore gallery: Selfridges Denim Studio shows how to draw the crowds
When Selfridges opened its Denim Studio on the third floor of its Oxford Street flagship in June, a waiting world rushed to take a look at the 26,000 sq ft jeans leviathan.
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GalleryStore gallery: Liberty goes with grocery theme for latest windows
Just occasionally a store comes up with a theme for its windows that plays on expectations of what retail is about.
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GalleryStore gallery: Galeries Lafayette in cycling frenzy as Tour de France heads to Paris
In case you’ve missed it, there is another sporting event going on at the moment: the Tour de France.
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GalleryStore gallery: Amouage gives a luxury masterclass in Muscat, Oman
Amouage, the Oman-based fragrance brand that has branched out into homewares, is by most standards a purveyor of luxury.
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GalleryStore gallery: Xbox joins Boxpark with new pop-up store
There will be those who are inclined to say that the days of the high street computer game retailer are over, and that this category has become an integral part of the online world and we won’t see its physical like again.
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GalleryStore gallery: Bunte Schokowelt, the ‘colourful chocolate world’ of Berlin
Ritter Sport Bunte Schokowelt in Berlin has taken a proprietary brand of chocolate bar and made a themed flagship experience out of it.
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GalleryStore of the week: Peloton & Co, Spitalfields Market
Wander into most larger branches of Halfords these days, inspect the cycles offer and it’s more than likely there will be a couple of Boardman bikes on display.
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GalleryStore of the week: The Conran Shop, Marylebone High Street
Top-end furniture and homewares retailers are not uncommon in the more chichi parts of central London. And many of them still seem to favour minimalism.
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GalleryStore of the week: Topman, Oxford Circus
Sometimes, in these casual days, it’s easy to imagine that the days of the two-piece, and especially three-piece, suit are gone, but not at the Topshop/Topman flagship at Oxford Circus.
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GalleryStore of the week: Argos, Camden
Argos would seem the sort of place where the iPad should have a greater ability to come into its own, in helping shoppers get what they want.