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No longer a “hot new thing”: Why AR shopping is here to stay

Inside Retail

Located at 101 7th Avenue in Chelsea, “The ARt of Beauty” pop-up enabled attendees to virtually try on Pat McGrath Labs’ core products, such as the Mothership eyeshadow palettes, book makeup sessions with the brand’s official makeup artists, and enjoy product giveaways. .

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EBBA references modernist architecture at WatchHouse coffee shop

Dezeen

The interior has a more open and relaxed feel than the brand's other locations, which operate more like typical coffee shops. Wooden seating is provided in an adjacent atrium Elements of the shop's design are informed by European modernist architecture. The photography is courtesy of EBBA.

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Scentre Group to sell half share in Westfield Whitford City

Inside Retail

Scentre Group is looking for an investor interested in taking a 50-per-cent stake in its Westfield Whitford City shopping mall in WA. The centre is located 20kms north of Perth in the coastal suburb of Hillarys and is expected to fetch around $250 million.

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Showfields and the bankruptcy of the ‘most interesting store in the world’

Inside Retail

Showfields closed its Miami and New York City locations in July and September, respectively. It has three remaining bricks-and-mortar locations, in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Brooklyn. How Showfields veered off course Showfields was co-founded in 2017 by Katie Hunt, Tal Zvi Nathanel , and Amir Zwickel.

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Melbourne retail vacancy rate plummets as F&B sector eats up space

Inside Retail

Melbourne’s shopping strips have made a staggering recovery as vacancy rates drop below pre-Covid levels, according to new research. Vacancy rates across 36 key shopping strips fell from 10.3 per cent in 2017 to 30.9 per cent in 2017 to 30.9 per cent last year to 6.7 per cent with about one-third of all tenancies or 33.4

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Hong Kong investment firm buys up half of QVB, The Strand and Galeries

Inside Retail

A number of Sydney’s most iconic retail destinations – The Queen Victoria Building, Strand Arcade, and The Galeries – are now half-owned by Hong Kong-based Link REIT, which purchased a 50 per cent interest in the locations for $538.2

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Why Sephora’s French prestige failed to translate in South Korea

Inside Retail

Sephora launched in South Korea in 2019 with a flagship location in the shopping-centered Gangnam District in Seoul. The retailer has five stores currently operating in South Korea, having previously shut down two other locations. According to the International Trade Administration, South Korea’s beauty market was worth US$3.9

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