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Polestar is bringing its award-winning retail concept, Space, to Australia

Inside Retail

The Swedish performance electric car brand is opening its first ‘Space’ store in Australia, at Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre, this summer. The ‘Space’ retail concept enables customers to interact with the Polestar brand, meet product specialists and take a test drive in the all-electric Polestar 2. Onwards and upwards.

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New & Lingwood launches its new concept, RE:NEW at 19 Saville Row

Retail Focus

Located on London’s iconic Savile Row, RE:NEW’s location uniquely positions it to contribute to larger conversations about how heritage brands can embrace the forward-facing perspective that customers expect, while still respecting the tradition and legacy of the brand’s past.

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From bricks to brand, here’s how concept stores bring it all together

Inside Retail

At the same time, several forward-thinking retailers are focusing on taking their in-store experience to a whole new level by introducing new-wave concept stores into their arsenal. The re-design and development of concept stores. Why concept stores? The term concept store has been thrown around with widely varying definitions.

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Why strong vendor partnerships are essential in a challenging retail climate

Inside Retail

Most retailers have worked through the challenges they had with the supply chain and with their inventory levels and overstocks, so they are creating more space on the shelf.” From a retailer’s perspective, the biggest challenge has been managing inventory. TikTok can essentially make or break a product or a concept.

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Exclusive: The thinking behind Coles’ revamped Chadstone flagship store

Inside Retail

Coles is using the store revamp to trial key concepts that it identifies as being important to the customer, including an elevated “fresh and healthy” offering, as well as greater “convenience” and “value” offerings. “In The project soft-launched in February and officially opened on March 6.

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HyperloopTT reveals autonomous freight transport concept HyperPort

Design Week

Mormedi was responsible for the design of the cargo capsules as well as a concept for ports which hopes to free up space occupied by containers. The post HyperloopTT reveals autonomous freight transport concept HyperPort appeared first on Design Week.

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

Inside Retail

Showfields made the mistake of over-paying for real estate and then expanding a concept that had rather limited appeal. While Showfields captured a lot of industry attention, it’s always been a concept in search of a strong value proposition. Can Showfields make a comeback?