Inside Retail

JANUARY 28, 2025

Only general retail, discount department store and leisure spending maintained their growth rate through the Christmas and Boxing Day weeks. Other categories, including apparel, department stores, and household goods, saw falling spending growth.

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

The pandemic hangover continues to muddy results with a number of retailers still comparing 2024 sales to 2020 or even 2019 because of the sharp fluctuations Covid-19 caused to trading patterns. Clothing and footwear stores started the half well bettering 2023 sales with a 2.4 Department stores followed suit with January up 1.7

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2021

Retail sector snapshot: The year to March 2021 saw a wide range of spending patterns across different sectors of the market.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Hyundai Department Store (Korea) Hyundai incorporates new digital technologies such as AI to enhance operational efficiency and customer convenience, including the industrys first AI copywriting system called Lewis. The outputs reflect the stores distinctive sentiment and style so it can be immediately applied to business operations.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

As such, food retailing was the only category to see a sales decrease – a pattern seen as prior lockdowns have ended, as customers begin to move back to eating out. per cent increase in sales, while department stores saw a sales increase of 22.4 Spending on clothing jumped 27.7 per cent, cafes and restaurants enjoyed a 12.3

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said there were 210 department stores in Japan at the end of 2019 but attrition in the ensuing three years reduced that number to just 192 by the end of 2022. Both the Takashimaya and Tokyu stores were luxury-focused, and had been a fixture of their neighbourhoods for decades.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2023

Standing out amid shifting consumer patterns Brian Walker, founder and CEO of the Retail Doctor Group, told Inside Retail that the furniture retail sector experienced a few golden years during the Covid-19 period when private savings and e-commerce activity relating to household goods were much higher than usual. “I

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

Given the patterns observed over the past year, it is likely that this result has been strongly influenced by the lockdown period,” Oster said. And, in terms of industries, department stores saw 12 per cent growth during the month, while homewares grew just shy of 10 per cent and grocery and fashion each grew almost 9 per cent.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This has been good news for retail spending that is linked to social settings, such as clothing and shoes and department stores. Domestic travel has fully rebounded, with 27.7 million passengers flying domestically in the three months to September 2022. Hospitality has had a resurgence as well.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

Since the pandemic hit last year and shopping patterns shifted, historical data in retail businesses has been pushed to the side, as analysts have had to quickly understand new information to cater to customers. UK department store John Lewis is famous for its moving Christmas advertisements, which it first launched in 2013.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

And it’s complicated by the work-from-home impact on commuting and traffic patterns. Retailers need to be very aware of the demographic patterns and how they’re shifting, and also need to consider the store assortment carefully in light of who is coming to the mall location and why.” There is a resurgence but it’s uneven.

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Barber Design

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Each area has a different ceiling pattern so it feels new, and each store has little differences, enticing the shopper to keep shopping. This beautiful bird, steeped in cultural significance, inspired key design elements across the store, from patterns and colour schemes to artistic features that evoke local landscapes and legends.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

“The process of pattern-making is a little bit different to standardised clothing,” Weber told Inside Retail. It’s not to say that standard pattern-making doesn’t do that, but there’s a lot of assumptions that come in standard pattern-making that need to be undone to be adaptive.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

The booming retail business Aside from the retail properties, SM Investments also has a separate retail arm consisting of about 3850 department stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and specialty stores. Same-store sales have been increasing at a rate above 6 per cent and twice that at its 74 department stores.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

M&S team members are also stationed at different parts of the store during specific busy times, ensuring they are always available for customers. A next-gen department store: Flannels When we talk about the best department stores in the world, we often bring up Selfridges in the UK or KaDeWe in Germany.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, Dior has created The Fabulous World of Dior , a spectacular presentation illuminating the hallowed halls of the world-famous Harrods department store. Inside the landmark department store, two novel pop-up boutiques draw their fantastic decor from the most beautiful Christmas fairytales.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

“I thought we were well-known when I opened the [pop-up] store. Going into] a department store was a powerful move for us,” Woods recalled. Currently, the brand is prioritising investing in technology throughout its whole supply chain, as opposed to further building out its store network.

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Dezeen

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Oak, grey stone and yellow-tinted glass are some of the materials that Norm Architects has used in its minimal makeover of the menswear section of German department store Alsterhaus. Spanning 24,000 square metres, the department store offers a mix of fashion, accessories, beauty products and homeware.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This pattern of consumer behaviour is indicative of what you’ll see in the industry, [and] there’s an opportunity to bring forward bargains [and] purchases,” he said.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2021

We are likely to see these stores, in addition to supporting the online offering, act as event spaces and hubs for local activity. . The pandemic looks to have permanently altered living and shopping patterns in a new hyper-convenient, digital-first world. Perhaps the most notable retailer undergoing this shift is John Lewis.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For retailers seeking to understand not only current spending patterns but consumers’ intentions to spend, CommBank’s Household Spending Intentions Index (HSI) can assist. It analyses CommBank’s large transactional data set and spending patterns across 12 different spending categories covering the majority of household spending activity.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Meanwhile, the spikes in sales and locations have eased and retailers have established new buying patterns – but the volatile environment still exists, as the impacts of the pandemic are constantly changing. Because of this, retailers will reshape their online product profiles and reconsider their store footprint for products and categories.

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Inside Retail

MAY 21, 2024

“I thought we were well-known when I opened the [pop-up] store. Going into] a department store was a powerful move for us,” Woods recalled. Currently, the brand is prioritising investing in technology throughout its whole supply chain, as opposed to further building out its store network.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2025

The divestment of Sun Art follows Alibaba’s pattern of streamlining its offline retail holdings, with the company appearing to cut losses and refocus on its core digital businesses. Last month, the e-commerce giant was reported to sell department store Intime Retail to Chinese textile and clothing company Youngor Fashion for RMB7.4

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Design Week

APRIL 15, 2021

Pantone has revealed its first physical store in Hong Kong which hopes to lead customers into a “different dimension” of colour. Billed as a Lifestyle Gallery, the 600 square ft space is located in the Cityplaza department store in the Tai Koo district.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 12, 2022

A similar pattern is beginning to emerge in Asia too, for example with the preeminence in Thailand of Central Group, which has dominant malls in major urban areas around the country, each anchored by a department store also owned and operated by Central Group and, surprise surprise, named Central Department Store.

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Dezeen

APRIL 3, 2021

Now, sports- and menswear departments have been added on a new floor, which complements the existing interior. The Moniker Sport section features curved stainless steel shelving (above) and a wall of patterned glass (top image). The Norwegian-Danish studio contributed a concrete table with one steel leg.

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Retail Times

MARCH 6, 2023

Freemans, the digital department store, today (3 March 2023) announced the introduction of a new range called Freestyle.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2022

The new Tmall Global Store will feature a host of Fortnum’s most delectable offerings, including famous teas, biscuits, hot chocolate, wine and spirits, teaware and wicker hampers. The company has announced a partnership with ecommerce accelerator, Pattern, to expand its online business to China.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2024

Sales at mall specialty stores at Aeon’s 92 malls in Japan increased by 3.1 The pattern is obvious: consumers are buying more into experiences and less into merchandise. The company reported much the same story as the department stores: sales growth was strongest in tourist locations.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a window into future spending patterns across the economy and the only model of its kind globally, it can help retailers plan their operational strategies with greater confidence. And gaining unique insights into consumers’ likely purchasing behaviour is now possible through the CommBank Household Spending Intentions (HSI) Index.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In 1986, the brand forecasted $200 million in sales that year in the US alone and was stocked in all major department stores around the US. Garratt is often credited as heralding mass-market adoption of the concept through her brand Multiples in the 1980s.

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Dezeen

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Named after its founder, the studio's previous projects include a bar inside New York's Nordstrom department store and the Manhattan offices of beauty brand Glossier. The brand's first US store is located in Miami Design District.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Note that these are non-anchor tenants and don’t include the 250 or so department stores that anchor many of the US malls. Macy’s, JCPenney, Dillard’s and Nordstrom are Simon’s top anchors, accounting for 209 stores in Simon malls.) A similar pattern repeated itself across the top echelon of the US mall industry.

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Creative Displays Now

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The structure of store design is highly influential in the customer experience. Customer flow: The way that a customer navigates a store’s aisles is the customer flow. Why Does the Layout of a Store Affect Product Sales? The following section will discuss common store layouts, along with their pros and cons.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Recently, the Profit Protection Future Forum released the findings of its comprehensive The 2022 Australia and New Zealand Retail Crime Study, a rigorously conducted body of research that captured the trends and patterns of the retail crime landscape from some of ANZ’s largest retailers.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Retailers will need to tune in to these shifting spending patterns in the short term if they want to capture a share of Millennials’ tightening wallets. The latest CommBank IQ data shows that people under 35 they have decreased their discretionary spending on apparel by 8.4 per cent and on retail services by 0.6

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