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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. Dedicated to women’s contemporary fashion and hosting local, premium brands curated for the Lotte customer.

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Department Stores – what does the future hold?

Retail Focus

The huge increase in online shopping over the past decade or so has had a major impact on department stores, with many consumers turning to Amazon, eBay and other online shops for shopping, rather than a more traditional trip out to a physical store. Changing culture of shopping.

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

Inside Retail

US-based retailer Showfields, the self-described “most interesting store in the world”, filed for bankruptcy this month and will be restructuring through a form of Chapter 11 bankruptcy created during Covid to help small businesses continue operations, reorganise, and maintain control of finances without creditors taking over.

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Untapped potential: David Jones’ CMO talks retail media move

Inside Retail

Compared to more traditional forms of advertising, retail media is touted as a more targeted, less wasteful form of customer acquisition: if someone is already shopping on a retailer’s website, they’re likely looking to buy, or to learn more about products that they’re considering purchasing.

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Matthew Yokobosky Announced as the Recipient of the 2022 Markopoulos Award in a Milestone Year

VMS

The Ralph Pucci showroom, curated with exquisite luxury furniture, fine art and cutting-edge designs, was the venue for the event. It was somehow appropriate that the celebration at the Pucci showroom that night was in the shadows of the early department stores that dramatically altered the course of retail.

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TikTok and ‘deal’ mentality: What’s driving demand for advent calendars

Inside Retail

Just last year, luxury department store chain Saks Fifth Avenue sold six different types of advent calendars; in 2023, that number tripled. With Black Friday behind us and holidays like Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year’s just around the corner, retail’s peak period is in full swing. What are the risks? What are the risks?

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How retailers are racing to meet the needs of older online shoppers

Inside Retail

It has also created a dedicated space in its warehouse for online orders, which is helping speed up delivery. . Until recently, the 52-year-old Melbourne brand catered primarily to older consumers through its bricks-and-mortar stores and print catalogues (it still receives orders over the phone). “We