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How Sephora’s new stores bridge the gap between online and in-person retail

Inside Retail

After unveiling its renovated Melbourne Central store earlier this month, French beauty giant Sephora is now gearing up to open the doors to its new store in Sydney’s Westfield Miranda shopping centre. It strives to stay at the forefront of beauty retail with its fully integrated omnichannel shopping experience.

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Søstrene Grene opens debut Hampshire store at Festival Place

Retail Focus

The concept blends a unique labyrinth-like store layout, with subdued lighting and classical music, designed to relax and comfort shoppers. This news also follows the openings in recent weeks of popular UK health food store, Grape Tree, and beauty and cosmetics specialists, Aimy Beauty, at Festival Place.

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Understanding the consumer of 2021

Inside Retail

Lockdowns with little advance notice, panic buying, supply chain disruptions, hastily made changes to health and safety regulations, and extreme swings in consumer needs and expectations. Such are the challenges that retailers, along with personal care and hospitality businesses, faced during the pandemic. Consumers unevenly impacted.

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Exclusive: The thinking behind Coles’ revamped Chadstone flagship store

Inside Retail

Unlike most retail stores, supermarket layouts are based on an incredible amount of consumer and scientific research, so redesigning stores in this sector is limited by well-defined operational rules and procedures. The Chadstone revamp was about discovering small things to tweak to provide an enhanced overall customer experience.

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Mecca for mums: How The Memo is disrupting the baby goods market

Inside Retail

Designed by leading Melbourne architecture and interior design firm, Cera Stribley, and built by The Melbourne Builder, the Armadale store features The Memo’s signature bright and bold colour scheme, while the layout has been thoughtfully planned with the customer in mind. It’s a category we’re very proud of,” Casey said.

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What Bapcor can learn from Bain’s long track record of PE bids

Inside Retail

Dunkin’ Donuts and its sister franchise, Baskin-Robbins, needed a reinvention, and in 2006 the consortium of PE firms actioned this intervention with changes that included expanding the menu, improving store layouts, and accelerating international expansion. ASX-listed beauty and wellness company BWX acquired a 50.1

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SHA Wellness Clinic partners with IMKAN to launch world’s first healthy living island 

Design Middleeast

An unprecedented project, an island where every aspect, every detail has been planned with the health and well-being of its inhabitants as a priority. The innovative island by SHA Wellness Clinic and IMKAN is located in AlJurf, a privileged enclave on the coastline between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.