Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When Laura Peden was growing up in the 1970s, department stores were a special place. Decades later, she still vividly remembers how she and her grandmother would travel into Myer’s city store at Christmas to see the “insanely fascinating” windows. The department store was no longer the star attraction.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Why would the owners of Selfridges, generally considered to be the world’s best department store, decide to sell the business? To a far greater extent than most other department stores, Selfridges has embraced an experiential retail strategy that many industry leaders see as key to the sector’s survival. billion (AU$3.72

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Retail Design Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Situated in downtown Busan, the Shinsegae Centum City department stores first opened its doors in 2009. As part of one.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2023

One of New Zealand’s oldest retailers, Southland department store chain H&J Smith, is to close its doors after 123 years. In a statement published on its website, H&J Smith confirmed the decision “to call time” on its department-store business, a decision that will result in the loss of 220 jobs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Department store Myer failed to avoid a second strike after its Remuneration Report received only ~65 per cent of shareholder votes, triggering a board spill that was ultimately avoided. The post Myer board spill avoided as the department store gets two new directors appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Isetan-Mitsukoshi is a storied department store chain with 15 units in Japan, including five in the Tokyo metropolitan area. One of them, the Isetan flagship in Shinjuku, boasts the highest sales of any department store in Japan. Sales at Isetan-Mitsukoshi’s Tokyo metro stores are up 33.3 billion yen, or about $2.5

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The biggest swing occurred in department store spending, which saw a 14.3 Especially in department stores, where the consumer appetite to spend appears to have fallen so dramatically between November and December? When it comes to the big department stores, there needs to be a differentiation.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2022

Living in a building of historic importance gives one of the world’s pre-eminent luxury department store companies that extra little bit of cache — the trick now is to find ways of being a retailer of future importance, a stiff hurdle upon which so many department store companies are stumbling. Footfall was up 6.4%

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2023

For once, department stores are leading a retail sales recovery instead of lagging it. Supermarkets (5,921 stores) gained 1.8 per cent but the big winners were department stores (190 of them) performing well above the average, with a 13.5 METI counted 190 department stores for its first quarter survey.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Department stores globally are adjusting their product offer to reflect rapid changes in the menswear category as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the category wears off. But last year menswear rebounded to its pre-pandemic levels, reaching on average 14 per cent of total department-store sales.

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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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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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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2022

First quarter results for calendar year 2022 are in for the three biggest Korean department store retailers, and the numbers are encouraging. Shinsegae, Lotte, and Hyundai account for the top nine department stores in the country (coming in at number 10 is Galleria’s high-end flagship in Seoul). trillion KRW ($2.1

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Retail Focus

MARCH 14, 2022

Following the opening of a bold and distinctly industrial space inside the world-renowned Hyundai COEX, the brand unveils yet another site in the Korean capital, this time located in the famed Lotte Department Store, Jamsil.

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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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2023

Japan’s department stores bear a striking resemblance to cruise ships: they’re big, luxurious, move glacially and serve an ageing customer. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) reports that department stores led the retail sales recovery through the first five months of the year. per cent gain.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

per cent (RM95 billion in total retail sales), and all retail sub-sectors such as fashion, department stores and grocery are expected to rebound. The post How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers appeared first on Inside Retail. You can download it here.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Sydney Airport and Heinemann will jointly introduce Australia’s first domestic terminal “department store” concept next July at T2 and T3. Last month, Heinemann Australia opened its new stores in Gold Coast Airport ’s expanded terminal, after announcing the expansion earlier this year in March.

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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. We believe in the circular economy and the good pound.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Mosaic’s department store move isn’t exactly unique in the fashion industry. Leveraging loyalty. million names in June 2020.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

As the UK starts to reopen after a prolonged lockdown, the launch of a wedding venue at Selfridges’ Oxford Street location could end up driving much-needed store visits, if only due to sheer novelty, according to Jana Bowden, an associate professor at Macquarie University Business School. “As

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Architecture studio OMA has revealed images of the first completed part of its renovation of Berlin department store KaDeWe, a retail and event space connected by wood-clad escalators. The department store's food laboratories will also be unveiled as a part of the new outdoor space. Lighting: Sekles Planungsbuero.

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VMS

JANUARY 9, 2023

Macy’s (New York) is set to shutter four more department stores in in the first quarter of 2023 as part of its ongoing Polaris transformation strategy, according to Retail Dive and several other news sources. The affected stores are in these malls: * Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza; Los Angeles. Foothills Mall, Fort Collins, Colo.

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Retail Times

AUGUST 16, 2024

Department stores and sports equipment stores reported a boost following summer discounts […] If you want more information Retail Times get in touch! Retail sales volumes (quantity bought) are estimated to have risen by 0.5% in July 2024, following a fall of 0.9% in June 2024 (revised up from a 1.2%

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Retail Times

AUGUST 12, 2024

Digital department store Freemans announced today (12 August 2024) the launch of a new campaign and collection. Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! Called The Icons it will run for two months to transition into the new season.

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VMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

will soon be home to a department store selling modest clothing for populations that require cover-up styles, Women’s Wear Daily reports. Called ADdress, the store will open in phases, starting on Valentine’s Day. The American Dream mega-shopping complex in East Rutherford, N.J.,

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VMS

JANUARY 2, 2023

More than 20 years after the Ames department store chain closed all of its stores, the retailer is mounting a comeback. That’s according to an announcement on a website purporting to represent the long-defunct discount retailer, which says Ames is “returning in spring 2023.”

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VMS

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? The post Department Store Offers Shoppers a Calming, Biophilic Space appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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VMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

Seattle) has announced its intentions to open a new retail experience, similar to a department store, The Wall Street Journal reports. The post Amazon Opening New Retail Experience, Similar to Department Store appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. Amazon.com Inc. trillion USD.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 24, 2024

Central’s acquisition move is not unusual,” Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, International Association of Department Stores managing director, told Inside Retail. Central Group made the headlines again in 2022 after snapping up Selfridges Group, making it the largest luxury department store operator in Europe. What’s next?

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Retail Design Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The first quadrant of OMA’s Berlin KaDeWe department store transformation opened its doors to the public, revealing a new approach.

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Dezeen

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Japanese studio Lighting Planners Associates lit a white tree-like canopy for the interior refurbishment of the historic Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store in Tokyo. The retail brand traces its history back to 1673 and a kimono fabric seller named Echigoya, while the department store was established in 1904.

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Retail Times

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Lone Design Club – the trailblazing platform that celebrates independent designers – is thrilled to announce an exciting first with a new partnership with Britain’s largest family-owned UK department store, Fenwick.

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Retail Design Blog

MARCH 11, 2022

As one of South Korea‘s leading department stores, Shinsegae is a fixture in the country’s retail landscape, operating a string.

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