VMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

Additionally, on Wednesday, Shinola opened its Shinola Home retail store next to its flagship location in Detroit and another at the Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, Mich., The post Shinola Partners with Crate & Barrel, Debuts ‘Home’ Concept appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. reports The Detroit News.

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Retail Focus

MAY 27, 2021

Today, Vashi unveiled and opened a new home for bespoke fine jewellery in Covent Garden – the brand’s new flagship store and its seventh bricks-and-mortar location. Guests can use the space to meet with their partners, friends or family right in the middle of the action of the new store, with the casting laboratory and workshop in full view.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Following in the tradition of Japanese retailers like Loft, Daiso and Muji that bring chic to everyday items and are consummate visual merchandisers, Thailand’s Moshi Moshi has gone into full expansion mode with a concept that uses the same template. Some stores also sell pet accessories.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

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. Showfields made the mistake of over-paying for real estate and then expanding a concept that had rather limited appeal.

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VMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

TGI Fridays (Carrollton, TX) is rolling out a new small-format concept called Fridays on the Fly that will focus on filling delivery and takeout orders, Chain Store Age reports. The 2500-square-foot restaurant will have a smaller dining space than the chain’s traditional locations, the article says. Read more at Chain Store Age.

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Inside Retail

JULY 16, 2023

New Balance occupies 1,500 sqm of the space, with offices located on the first level. Dean Howard, New Balance Australia’s general manager, told Inside Retail that the brand had outgrown its old offices in Cheltenham and sought a new space that enhanced connectivity, while also adding to work-life balance.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 8, 2023

Riding this wave, large-scale retailers are taking notice of the boutique concept. Geared towards urban city residents, these small format stores sell selected home furnishings to fit the average apartment size, with their interior decorated to optimise small spaces.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2023

There are literally hundreds of thousands of small independent grocery shops in Thailand, many of them without inventory management systems and occupying spaces that are distinctly lacking in glamour and décor. Enter the Donjai concept. Of course, Donjai doesn’t please everyone. Rental and service income rose 3.4

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The location of the new mall ensures that Aeon gets a slice of the booming and until recently under-retailed southern section of Phnom Penh strung out along the north-south-running Hun Sen Boulevard. Cars are accommodated with 3,200 spaces, and motorbikes — the staple of transport for Cambodians — with 1,850.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2022

Japanese retail is not only good on its own patch – you will find some of the most attractive stores in the world here – but when Japanese concepts have travelled to other countries, they have generally gone over well. Loft, a dubiously classified ‘home furnishings’ concept is an idea that should have travelled but hasn’t.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even prime locations, local partners, name recognition and often a portfolio of new merchandise brands haven’t kept Australia from becoming a dead end for some major international retailers. In some cases, the failed Australian ventures were part of a flawed strategy to breathe growth into struggling home market operations.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Brands can take advantage of this trend by developing their own games or integrating gamification elements into their retail store concepts. Gamification offers numerous opportunities to increase the experience in store concepts and to address younger target groups in particular. trillion gamers worldwide (IBISWorld 2020).

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having come to the realization that customers will be less able to purchase and that production itself is endangered, the concept of ownership is shifting towards sharing. A comprehensive brand experience is promoted from the outside and into the physical space as well as other brand touchpoints. Ghalia BOUSTANI.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Urban proximity concepts are becoming more relevant, and rural proximity concepts are retreating to less relevant formats. Given this situation, startups have been invited to invest in their local communities to revive the street with local concepts. The retail environment concept, theme and offer display.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 29, 2022

Located in the City Cross arcade on Rundle Mall in Adelaide, the store is expected to launch in the middle of this year. It’s a really vibrant space, and we’re so excited to open,” Sandra Kennedy, Sheike’s general manager, told Inside Retail. We see those two environments very much merging,” she said. “To

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The quality of a shopping mall gets expressed through a broad menu of attributes: tenant mix, mall design, navigability, ease of access and egress, parking spaces, safety, how clean the toilets are, and so on. Rarely has a mall fouled up such a superb location. This is not Costco.) The new dream of Bangkok or Bangkok New Dream.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 17, 2022

Architecture studio Sybarite have created a retail concept for the new Theory flagship store located on 101-113 Regent Street. This will be part of a ‘connected retail space’ with Uniqlo, also owned by Fast Retailing. Seamless form and transition exist between the plaster of the walls and the ceilings.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Newer stores are not as productive as older ones, indicating that the concept is approaching saturation or already there in the US and Canada, where Costco has most of its locations. It is helped by the fact that the concept of member-based retail is still something of a novelty in much of the world.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Amid an evolving retail landscape, Bullring & Grand Central has continued to attract household names as well as young, cool digitally native brands, while repurposing legacy space with innovative new concepts including entertainment.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

For instance, Adidas doubled its production of Germany’s women’s football merchandise compared to the previous Women’s World Cup in 2019. Rebel entered a multi-year partnership with the Matildas in 2019 – set to continue until at least 2024 – and opened seven World Cup pop-up stores in hero locations across Australia.

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Retail Focus

MAY 4, 2021

The concept – designed in partnership with New York-based creative studio Mythology – will be the first to reveal the brand’s new vision, while continuing to champion the co-creation journey for which Vashi is known. The new store concept takes its inspiration from an artist’s studio.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Australian Fashion Council (AFC) and Afterpay have collaborated with Vicinity Centres to unveil The Edit, an experiential retail space celebrating local designers and the latest in-store technology – from shoppable changing room mirrors to gesture-controlled screens. We can see the entire lifecycle of each item in the store,” Molnar said.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The store’s owner is known by name to most customers and – in an unusual step – has devoted that all-important first 10 sqm at the entrance not to a stack of bargain merchandise, but to a simple wooden table where four to six early customers gather for morning coffee and whatever is on that day’s breakfast menu. Community is in their nature.

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VMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

Glossier (New York) is opening a new brick-and-mortar Seattle location this Friday, the brand’s first permanent store since shuttering all of its physical locations in 2020. The post Glossier’s Seattle Store Opens Friday appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

But as Thai-based hypermarket maestro Big C ably demonstrates, that doesn’t mean you can’t generate vibrant shopping experiences in a quite different mall concept of your own creation. This is a social concept through and through, built around food, entertainment and services. That includes Sisaket.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

A growing number of retailers appear to be opting for smaller stores as a way to maintain their store presence and enter desirable locations amid rising costs. But, how can retailers get this approach right, and what does the future hold with regard to smaller shops and spaces?

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To engage in the program, participating brands must meet relevant program prerequisites, which vary based on the retail space and store type,” Estée Lauder said. For both new and existing stores, these requirements span store build-out, energy and water, responsible sourcing of materials, visual merchandising, store operations and innovation.”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2022

Cue the recent unveiling of the immersive Life Store concept from smartphone giant Honor, located on the historic Bell Tower Street in Taiyuan, China. A social gathering space on the first floor enables community talks on a variety of subjects. So an extension of this concept is possible in the future,” he concluded.

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VMS

AUGUST 9, 2021

For those projects that were created during the most uncertain times in recent history, visual merchandising proved to be a key component in facilitating memorable experiences shoppers could immerse themselves in to center their focus, as seen through this year’s winning displays.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The cavernous warehouse, with its concrete floor and wooden pallets of merchandise piled up high, quickly brings to mind another club format, Costco. The merchandise is sold in supersized packages, and it even sells Kirkland Signature-branded products, which is one of Costco’s private labels.

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MARCH 24, 2021

The Concept. That shows how short-term shop spaces are a proven vehicle for doing just that. This short-term approach means that brands can experiment with novelty items, introduce new merchandise or test concepts without the hard cost or risk associated with long leases and associated overhead costs.

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VMS

JUNE 10, 2021

The new concept for the 14,000-square-foot space included architecture, layout, design and in-store communication. The Central Eatery, located in the middle of the fresh food departments, serves up retail theater with open show kitchens that are the heart of the food hall. When Central Food Retail Co.,

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Retail Focus

MAY 30, 2023

Creating a brand community has always been an important marketing concept and a valuable brand asset. The notion of ‘ community retailing ’ is quite different; it focuses on the physical or digital spaces where retail businesses operate and interact with their customers. Ghalia BOUSTANI. A shift from “ customers ” to “ communities ”.

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VMS

JULY 28, 2021

the concept transformed AT&T flagship locations into experience destinations for Wonder Woman fans. While the pandemic was still ongoing, Twenty Four 7 knew customers were eager to connect with others, so the team strove to create a space for casual observers and superfans alike. Designed by Twenty Four 7 (Portland, Ore.),

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Located in a former warehouse on a corner in Miami 's Wynwood neighbourhood, the store is a flagship for Billionaire Boys Club (BBC) , which was founded in 2003 and includes sub-brands Icecream, Bee Line and Billionaire Girls Club. The space used to be a warehouse. Recycled materials were used throughout. Displays line the walls.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Upmarket department store Nordstrom has introduced a two-storey ‘Home’ space at its Manhattan flagship location as part of the launch of the Nordstrom Home collection nationwide. Touchscreens located around the store provide further product information and ingredients ratings and definitions. Luxury apparel brands get personal.

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VMS

JUNE 6, 2021

Dubbed the Champs Sports Community Store, the 21,000-square-foot space is home to the first brick-and-mortar location for Foot Locker’s Eastbay brand. The design of the two-level space is by Foot Locker’s in-house Global Retail Concepts Team. The second floor is home to our men’s product and an Eastbay shop-in-shop.

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