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Analysis: How Australian department stores can thrive in a post-Covid world

Inside Retail

Those brands that have avoided bankruptcy have often been forced to undertake aggressive cost reduction and store closures. Department stores have been particularly impacted, with consumers forced online during the pandemic now choosing to buy direct from brands or from more price-competitive online marketplaces.

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

Inside Retail

Shinsegae — one of the Big 3 of Korean department store retailing along with Lotte and Hyundai — has continued its great form right through into the second half of the year, helped by the removal of the country’s remaining pandemic restrictions and an increasingly buoyant mood among the country’s more affluent consumers.

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Why major US retailers are backing Black-owned brands

Inside Retail

US department store Nordstrom has teamed up with Instagram page-turned-online marketplace Black Owned Everything to spotlight four up-and-coming Black-owned fashion and accessories brands alongside global sneaker giants Nike and Jordan as part of its Nordstrom x Nike initiative.

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Luxe for less: Best & Less enters beauty category with cult brand MCoBeauty

Inside Retail

Discount department store Best & Less has made its debut in the lucrative beauty category, unveiling a pink pop-up store from MCoBeauty this week. . Now also available online at Best & Less, MCoBeauty is the first beauty brand stocked at the value chain, in 120 of its stores across the country.

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How Maison Francis Kurkdjian built a brand around the Picasso of fragrance

Inside Retail

It was like going to see a Picasso exhibition, yet no one tells you that the painter is Picasso and only the gallery or curator name is provided. Around 2007, however, we started seeing more and more “niche” fragrance brands being launched and entering department stores. IR: What is MFK’s physical store strategy?

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5 Best Experiential Retail Examples

Greater Group

concept store enter a dream-world where their favourite movie scenes come to life, which is why this instalment has been welcomed with so much success. Story initially started as a unique retail store who operated on the idea of renewing its stock according to different themes every few months. STORY at Macy’s.