All Store of the week articles – Page 5
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GalleryStore of the week: Asparagus Patch, Liverpool One
Who says that asparagus is the preserve of the over-precious metrosexual-leaning Nimby classes?
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GalleryStore of the week: Marks & Spencer, Kalverstraat, Amsterdam
Stores with touchscreens are commonplace these days - all part of the multichannel/omnichannel (call it what you will) effort that retailers hope will help them accrue incremental revenues.
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GalleryStore of the week: HEB, Montrose, Houston
The US is frequently characterised as a country with relatively few coast-to-coast operators, but that has a host of large regional players that dominate a particular state or cluster of states.
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GalleryStore of the week: 14oz, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
This is a store that would be way beyond the means of most retailers to create and maintain, but this is a denim-led offer.
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GalleryStore of the week: White Stuff, Spitalfields, London
At a time when many retailers are scrambling to prove their multichannel credentials, White Stuff offers something of a single-digit salute to the world of the interweb via its windows.
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GalleryStore of the week: David Bowie Is All Yours, Selfridges
There is much to be said for keying into attention-grabbing events of the moment as a method of adding incremental sales
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GalleryStore of the week: Pram and pushchair brand Silver Cross, Hong Kong
The best retailing frequently involves finding a niche and then making sure that you ‘own that space’.
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GalleryStore of the week: Peter England Generation, Bangalore, India
Peter England is a brand that started in the UK, but that was some time ago. Since 1997, it has been a Bangalore-based brand.
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GalleryStore of the week: Young fashion retailer Forever 21, Glasgow
Forever 21 arrived in the UK more than two years ago and in that time it has opened some good stores and some that are big.
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GalleryStore of the week: Accessories brand Tantrum, Westfield Stratford
Tantrum is the brand’s first store and has a jewellery and cosmetics offer aimed at more or less the same crowd that is found in Topshop.
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GalleryStore of the week: La Cave, department store Le Bon Marché, Paris
Visit a wine cellar in France and a winding, cavernous space with a damp atmosphere and a mild chill in the air is expected.
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GalleryStore of the week: Online retailer Moo, Shoreditch, London
The Moo shop in the Boxpark mall is a rare beast - an online retailer that is making the leap from the virtual to the terrestrial world.
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GalleryStore of the week: Nike Flyknit, Gare de Lyon, Paris, France
A translucent purple geodesic dome sits outside the Gare de Lyon in Paris, cutting a contemporary dash when set against the late 19th century architecture.
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GalleryStore of the week: Merkur supermarket, Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna
For a small country, Austria has a lot of good supermarkets. And to an extent, they are very often one of the many guises adopted by Spar.
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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 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 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 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 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.