Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2022

Lotte enlisted London luxury retail designers Shed , known for a distinctly contemporary and progressive international design style, to reimagine a ‘different kind’ of department store, Lotte’s first major project in 7 years. Dedicated to women’s contemporary fashion and hosting local, premium brands curated for the Lotte customer.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Australias department stores are at a crossroads. Once the go-to for everything from fashion to homewares, theyre now struggling to stay relevant in a world of online shopping, specialty retailers, and shifting consumer habits. In September 2024, department-store sales fell by 0.5 So how did we get here?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“If approved by shareholders, it will create a leading retail group with more than 780 stores across Australia and New Zealand, with a large and highly engaged customer base and capital to fund future investment and growth,” she added. We all grew up with a shop on every corner.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Major department store, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick. Cinema, tick.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2022

We have ‘iconic’ shopping centres, ‘iconic’ retail stores, ‘iconic’ restaurants, ‘iconic’ hotels, ‘iconic’ rock groups. But Takashimaya, a retailer of 1831 vintage and still the largest department store chain in Japan, is surely genuinely deserving of the word. The amount of department store floorspace declined by 6.1

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

From exclusive capsule collections with designer brands like Gucci, Bottega Veneta, Loewe, and Brunello Cucinelli, to one-of-a-kind premium experiences, such as a 24-hour event in Shanghai produced alongside the Paris-based label Courrèges, Mytheresa offers a shopping experience that only a select few can indulge in, let alone afford.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Shopping is about more than just a transaction, as evidenced by our inaugural global feature on the ‘Most desirable shopping precincts’. Home to Apple’s London Campus, a 2229sqm food hall and a glass chimney lift, Battersea Power Station also has housing and hundreds of shops located in its historic turbine halls.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The retailer used RetailNext’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to measure consumers’ shopping journeys through the store anonymously, gathering data such as sales figures, traffic figures, customers’ gender and more. Can Showfields make a comeback?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Australian department store David Jones has become the latest retailer to sell pre-owned clothing following the announcement of its partnership with Sydney-based luxury reseller Blue Spinach last week. It also offers second-hand items in its London flagship store through a partnership with online resale platform Vestiaire Collective.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

An old TopShop store in north London’s Brent Cross shopping centre has been revived after two years of sitting empty since the fast fashion brand closed down. It’s now a vibrant pop-up department store selling pre-loved clothing organised collaboratively by 10 charities.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Charity Super.Mkt, the ‘department store for second-hand style’ launched earlier this year by Maria Chenoweth and Wayne Hemingway, will open at Bluewater this week. The Charity Super.Mkt concept has proved hugely popular with shoppers thanks to its curated collections of second-hand fashion.

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Inside Retail

JULY 2, 2024

While the everyday consumer has become pri c e-sensitive with the growing costs of living in the US, the 1 per cent is still spending – to a point where the luxury shopping market has become more competitive than ever. The retail expert noted that “for discretionary luxury shopping in physical retail, this is paramount”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2021

Starts at 60, the online news and community hub aimed at seniors, has just launched an e-commerce platform as it looks to become the go-to destination for the growing number of baby boomers shopping online. Older online shopping ‘boom’. But that changed last year.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2023

Pinterest uses a combination of machine learning and human curation to offer tailored recommendations and search results based on the interests of users. The aim is to make all items and products that can be Pinned – or bookmarked – by users available for purchase, with the ability to shop integrated across the entire user experience.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With the advent of readily available glass plates, the retail landscape underwent a transformative shift, paving the way for elaborate store window displays that served as captivating showcases for a myriad of products. Christmas windows, acting as the gateway to the store, set the stage for a memorable shopping journey.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2023

The country’s growing economy and expanding middle class have created a favourable environment for global brands to set up shop and tap into a new consumer base. In recent years, India has emerged as a major market for luxury brands. And Apple is far from the only premium brand eyeing the opportunity.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 21, 2023

Selfridges, the iconic British department store, is ushering in a new era of sustainable retail with its ambitious plan to ensure 45% of transactions come from circular products and services by 2030. A key feature of the season is The Edit by Reselfridges, a fashion and lifestyle destination offering a unique way to shop secondhand.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central Group is one of the ‘big three’ Thai retailers and shopping centre developers/operators. Build on loyalty.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2021

Discount department store Kmart is celebrating the 52 ‘K Hub’ stores it has launched in the last eight months, particularly across remote areas of the country. The stores were first conceived as way to turn underperforming Target sites into more profitable Kmart locations.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 7, 2024

Peel has announced that Charity Super.Mkt, the UK’s first-ever multi-charity shop, is set to open its next pop-up at premier southwest urban outlet Gloucester Quays. The 4,000 sq ft store will launch at the outlet on March 14 th , introducing its popular ‘second-hand department store’ concept to a key entrance off High Orchard Street.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Grand Central serves the Toowoomba community by offering a “curated blend” of fashion, food and entertainment. The town’s Myer store initially opened in 1962, and moved to Grand Central in 1996. The post Inside Myer’s newest store upgrade, in Toowoomba appeared first on Inside Retail. Image source: Supplied.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 7, 2023

Compared to more traditional forms of advertising, retail media is touted as a more targeted, less wasteful form of customer acquisition: if someone is already shopping on a retailer’s website, they’re likely looking to buy, or to learn more about products that they’re considering purchasing. And it’s a big business. billion. “It

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In partnership with the airport, high-end retailer Heinemann is set to launch a new shopping precinct in 2023 with a range of services that will target travellers and non-travellers alike. Heinemann Australia managing director George Tsoukalas told Inside Retail that the domestic department store is not constrained to targeting travellers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

The multi-store shopping centre steadily grew in popularity in the US, hitting peak popularity in the 1980s. According to a report released by real estate agency Cushman & Wakefield, in the first quarter of 2024, shopping center vacancy reached 5.4 In the past, the big department stores were the main attractions.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The new flagship store – the brand’s first in the US – features about 1300sqm of retail space, as well as a recording studio for musical artists, a 23-metre hat wall, a bar, live DJs performing daily, and a Secret Room featuring sought-after items in the streetwear market. I’ve always believed in creating that vibe and atmosphere.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The new flagship store – the brand’s first in the US – features about 1300sqm of retail space, as well as a recording studio for musical artists, a 23-metre hat wall, a bar, live DJs performing daily, and a Secret Room featuring sought-after items in the streetwear market. I’ve always believed in creating that vibe and atmosphere.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

One of the key trends that defined retail in 2023 was pop-up shops and how these experiential shopping experiences have taken hold over millennial and Gen Z consumers. Just this week, American department store chain Nordstrom announced a unique collaboration with the British fashion brand Paul Smith.

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Dezeen

JUNE 27, 2023

London-based studio EBBA Architects has channelled the environmental ethos of fashion rental platform Rotaro for its pop-up boutique at department store Liberty. EBBA designed a pop-up shop for fashion rental platform Rotaro " Rotaro is all about fashion rental, as a response to waste in the industry," he added.

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VMS

AUGUST 20, 2021

along with controlling stakeholders WHP Global (New York), is planning to open more than 400 shop-in-shops throughout Macy’s (New York) department stores nationwide by 2022, according to a press release. Until the shop-in-shops open, Toys “R” Us will have an experience for shoppers though macys.com/toysrus.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Here are a few of the latest stores to check out from around the globe. Upmarket department store Nordstrom has introduced a two-storey ‘Home’ space at its Manhattan flagship location as part of the launch of the Nordstrom Home collection nationwide. Maserati takes shopping mall car shopping a step further.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2021

US department store Nordstrom has teamed up with Instagram page-turned-online marketplace Black Owned Everything to spotlight four up-and-coming Black-owned fashion and accessories brands alongside global sneaker giants Nike and Jordan as part of its Nordstrom x Nike initiative.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2023, Selfridges launched “Yellow Pages”, a zine that positions the luxury department store at the epicentre of a new season and cultural conversation. High-end multi-brand fashion retailers, such as Selfridges, Net-a-Porter and David Jones, all include catalogues in their marketing mix.

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Retail Focus

JULY 24, 2024

The theatrical nature of pop-up stores often incorporates elements of surprise, delight, and discovery, turning the act of shopping or brand interaction into an event worth remembering and sharing. Cooperative pop-ups bring together multiple brands under one roof, creating a curated, multi-brand experience.

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Barber Design

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Within the space, an interior designer specialising in travel retail design will design layouts, map customer touchpoints, assess finishes and always create focal points to make sure each duty free store has unique features. The store layouts are designed to flow naturally from one to the next, making for an effortless shopping journey.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The management team ensures tenant compatibility with each mall’s identity through rigorous curation, blending both global and local brands to cater to their clientele’s varied needs. This approach, built upon over 15 years of research, merges traditional and digital shopping experiences to continually attract and engage visitors.

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