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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

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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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. A story of two halves with both a Menswear and a Children’s department.

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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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Ames Department Stores May Return in 2023: Reports

VMS

More than 20 years after the Ames department store chain closed all of its stores, the retailer is mounting a comeback. The announcement, however, has been met with skepticism on account of Cross Moline Ventures having a minimal online presence in the form of an under-construction website.

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The Creative Retail Awards and SaveTheHighStreet.org form a partnership to find the best-designed Independent Store at the 2023 Awards

Retail Focus

The partnership aims to celebrate and recognise the vital role that independent retailers play in the success of the high street, and to encourage the public to support their local independent stores. The category is open to independent retailers of all sizes and types, from small boutiques to larger independent department stores.

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Dropshipping: Fashion’s favourite fulfilment method?

Inside Retail

Brand fulfilment and digital concessions are on the rise, which is more or less a form of dropshipping, except the goods are shipped directly from the supplier in branded packaging. Why fashion loves dropshipping This is the digital version of department stores that decades ago moved to concessions taking a percentage of sales.