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Analysis: A Japanese retailer with Lofty overseas prospects

Inside Retail

In each case, the arrival of these brands in new markets has generally been greeted with huge enthusiasm. Loft, a dubiously classified ‘home furnishings’ concept is an idea that should have travelled but hasn’t. And even in the smallish space it occupies in those locations, the range of merchandise is formidable.

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Opinion: Welcome to Walmart, where boring is beautiful

Inside Retail

The company itself has been in business for more than 60 years, selling groceries and low- to middle-end general merchandise, operates 10,500 stores in 19 countries and churns out, with monotonous regularity, annual revenues higher than the GDP of every country in Scandinavia. In China, year-on-year sales grew by 11.3