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What’s driving the transformation of China’s department stores?

Inside Retail

Once seen as a staple of urban retail, department stores in China are undergoing a transformative reinvention. With malls, e-commerce giants, and niche retailers vying for consumer attention, these legacy institutions must reimagine their purpose in an increasingly digital and experience-driven retail environment.

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Analysis: How Australian department stores can thrive in a post-Covid world

Inside Retail

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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David Jones reopens reimagined beauty floor at Bourke Street Mall

Inside Retail

The post David Jones reopens reimagined beauty floor at Bourke Street Mall appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. David Jones is inviting customers to attend the Festival of Beauty on the ground floor of Bourke Street Mall from August 22 to August 25.

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Multi-dimensional, story-telling design for South Korea’s largest, luxury department store

Retail Focus

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. A story of two halves with both a Menswear and a Children’s department.

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Onetime airline Pan Am reimagined in South Korea as a lifestyle brand

Inside Retail

SJ Group aims to further increase Pan Am’s physical presence in the country with plans to open 13 stores in the country, including those in Daejeon Shinsegae Art & Science department store, Hyundai Department Store Pangyo branch, and Lotte Department Store Busan main branch.

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Retails news around the globe

Inside Retail

With the talented people at MGM and the talented people at Amazon Studios, we can reimagine and develop that IP for the 21st century.”. Department store franchise Shinsegae Group is increasing its stake in Starbucks in South Korea to 70 per cent instead of fully acquiring the coffee chain, as previously reported.

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In their own words: Getting to know Aptos, a global leader in unified commerce

Inside Retail

Aptos develops and delivers unified commerce solutions for specialty softlines, hardlines and department store chains in North America, Europe, Asia and ANZ. We’re also excited to see more customers adopt our newly reimagined store fulfilment app. What makes the company different from others in the market?