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Amazon to test department stores in offline expansion

Inside Retail

Amazon.com is to open several department stores in its home US market to test the concept as it continues to build out its multichannel business model. Department stores’ share of the overall US market has fallen from 14.5 It is also testing automated, cashier-less convenience stores in several markets.

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A-COLD-WALL* Lotte Department Store, Jamsil, Seoul set to launch

Retail Focus

Following the opening of a bold and distinctly industrial space inside the world-renowned Hyundai COEX, the brand unveils yet another site in the Korean capital, this time located in the famed Lotte Department Store, Jamsil.

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Inside Shinsegae: The Korean department store with a golden boot

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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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The China Syndrome: Japan department stores missing tourist shoppers

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Isetan-Mitsukoshi is a storied department store chain with 15 units in Japan, including five in the Tokyo metropolitan area. One of them, the Isetan flagship in Shinjuku, boasts the highest sales of any department store in Japan. Sales at Isetan-Mitsukoshi’s Tokyo metro stores are up 33.3 billion yen, or about $2.5

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Inside Designworks’ four-pronged expansion strategy

Inside Retail

And it supplies to department stores, such as David Jones, Myer, Kmart and Big W. They include new brands and licences, developing and progressing its own brands, expanding its category offerings for the licences it already holds, and expansion outside of Australia and New Zealand.

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Australia’s first domestic terminal department store to open next year

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Sydney Airport and Heinemann will jointly introduce Australia’s first domestic terminal “department store” concept next July at T2 and T3. In addition to its international duty-free stores, the domestic terminal shops also include delivery and click-and-collect services.

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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.