All Stores and property articles – Page 221
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GalleryStore gallery: Department store Breuninger opens in Germany's fashion capital
The UK is occasionally characterised as a retail oddity in terms of the number of department store chains it boasts.
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NewsThe Original Factory Shop delivers 'strong' Christmas and reveals small store format
The Original Factory Shop has reported solid Christmas sales, as it reveals it is testing a smaller store format.
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OpinionRetail surgery: How can retailers work around the constraints associated with listed buildings when implementing PoS systems?
How can retailers work around the constraints associated with listed buildings when implementing point-of-sale systems?
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OpinionComment: Getting into bed with the techies
Technology and design should be comfortable bedfellows, but all too often they’re not.
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GalleryStore gallery: Le Bon Marché gives its food hall a French market theme
Every grand department store worth its name has a food hall and for most it’s a point of pride that this part of the shop is a destination in its own right.
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GalleryStore gallery: G-Star Raw gives denim a makeover at new London flagship
The Dutch denim brand has revamped jeans retailing with its new Oxford Street flagship.
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GalleryIn pictures: Topps Tiles first small format Boutique store opens
Topps Tiles opened its first small format Boutique store in Walton-on-Thames this morning.
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NewsMaplin reports strong Christmas trade as it opens first airport store
Maplin is to open its first airport store next month after enjoying a surge in Christmas custom in December.
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OpinionComment: What happened to Debenhams at Christmas?
What could have been done to make Christmas happen at the department store retailer?
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NewsRemaining 42 Barratts stores shuttered by administrators
Administrators to Barratts have closed the troubled footwear retailer’s final stores two months after it collapsed.
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OpinionComment: Time for a store design change in 2014
Has the time come to call time on ‘industrial’-look store interiors and what might be next?
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GalleryStore gallery: Cath Kidston opens floral flagship in Piccadilly
Cath Kidston’s new Piccadilly store showcases the British lifestyle brand in all its chintz-patterned glory.
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GalleryIn pictures: Sports nutrition retailer GNC opens new interactive format
Sports nutrition chain GNC, sister retailer of Holland & Barrett, has opened an interactive store format featuring a fitness equipment area and sports bar.
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NewsIn pictures: Burberry launches Beauty Box in Covent Garden
Burberry has opened a store in Covent Garden’s Piazza that offers beauty products and accessories and which aims to blur the divide between the digital and terrestrial retail worlds.
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NewsIn pictures: G-Star Raw opens Oxford Street flagship
Dutch denim brand G-Star Raw has opened a two-floor flagship store on the site of the former Carphone Warehouse branch on Oxford Street.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sporting Pro Kensington High Street, London
Sporting goods shops tend to fall into two types - those that are brand-owned and offer a complete mono-brand universe, such as Niketown or an Adidas store, and those that are not.
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AnalysisVirtual store tour: John Lewis Oxford Street mapped on Google Street View
In what the retailer is calling a retail first, John Lewis’ Oxford Street store is the first department store in the world to be fully mapped by Google Street View.
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OpinionComment: What does service mean at Christmas?
Christmas may be a time for retailers to shift stock, but service should be at the heart of this time of year.
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GalleryStore gallery: Wine Rack finds balance between expertise and value
Since it bought the Wine Rack business at the beginning of September, Conviviality Retail (owner of Bargain Booze) has been working hard to create a new store template that will be more “democratic”, as chief executive Diana Hunter puts it.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The best video from 2013
Retail Week looks back over the 10 most popular videos of 2013.