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Big Ideas

Rebranding Resale

The fashion resale market has had a rebranding. Upscaled marketing initiatives, luxury partnerships and circularity-led retail concepts are redefin...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Big Ideas

Five Luxury Leisure Pop-Ups

As the personal luxury goods market rebounds and consumers continue to seek out experiences across travel, leisure and dining, luxury brands are di...

Luxury : Travel & Hospitality : Retail

Big Ideas

World Retail Congress 2023: Resilient Retail Futures

World Retail Congress 2023 in Barcelona explored how innovators are embracing purpose, transformation and resilience in the aftershock of global cr...

Technology : Retail : Sustainability

Big Ideas

Retail’s New UX Sustainability Hubs

As consumer demand for value-driven retail increases, a new wave of Hyperphysical Stores offering sustainability-focused customer experiences are c...

Retail : Sustainability : Fashion

Viewpoints

Selfridges’ Andrew Keith on retail’s hyperphysical future

The managing director of Selfridges examines the ways that retailers can create immersive, engaging and Hyperphysical Store experiences.

Retail : Stores : Department Stores

Macro Trends

Hyperphysical Stores

In a post-Covid landscape, changing consumer needs are driving retailers to rethink bricks-and-mortar stores to be more engaging, sensorial and mem...

Retail : Bricks-and-mortar : Stores

News

Stat: US store closures outpace openings in 2019

According to estimates by Coresight Research, US store closures increased by more than 60% in 2019 compared to the previous year.

Retail : Stores : Stat

Big Ideas

Global shopping malls emerge as community lifestyle destinations

It is no longer enough simply to shop in shopping centres, as retail becomes more community-focused and malls become activity centres.

Community : Nielsen : Activity Centre

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Same-day delivery start-up and mall operators set to disrupt marketplace

A local US start-up is disrupting Amazon's leadership of the same-day delivery marketplace.

Deliv : Startup : Same-day Delivery

Big Ideas

Site gives panoramic shoppable view of boutiques

Avenue Imperial offers a virtual panoramic view of European boutiques.

Department Stores : Boutiques : Phy-gital

News

Together on a plate: Food and fashion converge

Zurich – The giant image of a shiny, silky oyster is the unlikely backdrop for a monochrome-clad mannequin in the window of Swiss department stor...

Jelmoli : Zurich : Visual Merchandising

Big Ideas

Retail Week Live 2014: Part 2

Multi-channel is dead. Omni-channel is done. Welcome to the new fusion of physical and digital retail: phy-gital. We have been using this portmante...

Omni-channel : Multi-channel : Phy-gital

Viewpoints

In the Tomorrow Store, less is increasingly more

With the lure of the virtual wallet keeping consumers glued to their phones, the menacing power of the mega-systems and drone deliveries soon to ...

Stores : Shops : Visual Merchandising

News

Zone out: Retail interior based on urban planning

Theory : Nendo : Los Angeles

Big Ideas

Click and collect the key to Christmas retail

Britain : High Street : Christmas

Big Ideas

Design Miami/ 2013 Overview Part 2

The LS:N Global team scoured the convention centre, the streets of Miami’s South Beach, the Design District, Wynwood and beyond to bring you a uniq...

Herzog & De Meuron : Perez Art Museum : Mangue Groove

Big Ideas

Topshop shares London Fashion Week images via Chirp

Digital Garden : Stores : Social

Big Ideas

Mexico is a bright spot for youth-focused retail

Mexico : Middle-class : H&M

Micro Trends

Big Bold Luxe

Big is the new black in luxury circles as brands open ever bigger and bolder high-concept stores and employ epic marketing strategies to woo luxuri...

Flagship : Department Store : Stores

Big Ideas

Mid-range fashion trumps luxury in Asia-Pacific

Mid-range Fashion : Middle-class : CBRE

Big Ideas

Build-a-Bear launches interactive retail concept

St Louis, Missouri – US children’s toy retailer Build-A-Bear Workshop has redesigned six of its stores with new interactive digital experiences aim...

Build-A-Bear : Interactive : Toys

Big Ideas

Google plans to open physical stores in the US

Google : Bricks And Mortar : Apple

Big Ideas

Chinese consumers lead the way on showrooming

China : IBM Global Business Services : Channel

News

Luxury cycle: Bike polo film hits the screen

Louis Vuitton : Stores : Bicycle

Big Ideas

Young Indians embrace foreign retail chains

India : Western : Profit