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Daiso, Muji, Moshi Moshi? Why this Japanese-inspired chain is taking off

Inside Retail

Following in the tradition of Japanese retailers like Loft, Daiso and Muji that bring chic to everyday items and are consummate visual merchandisers, Thailand’s Moshi Moshi has gone into full expansion mode with a concept that uses the same template. Some stores also sell pet accessories.

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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. The reasons for the appeal of Japanese retailers are easy to understand: they have good store designs, often with small footprints that make tidy, efficient use of space without appearing cluttered. Isetan is a case in point.

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Why Ikea, Nike, Li Ning and Atelier100 are going hyper-local

Inside Retail

Perhaps more of a recurring concept rather than an entirely new trend, the hyper-local concept is modelled on mom-and-pop boutique stores, factoring in the careful curation of merchandise and shaping the retail experience based on the store’s surrounding vicinity.

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Why international stores are key to Costco’s future growth

Inside Retail

Thailand’s Central Retail is also going to have a go, quite literally, at the wholesale market. However, so far, these are small moves in the overall scheme of things, and Costco has a lot of white space to attack in the APAC region as a whole. This, too, will be member-based. Sales of non-food items decreased 0.4

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Meet Big C: The Thai hypermarket chain thriving in small cities

Inside Retail

The company did its best by improving product sourcing and curation to meet the needs of the day, such as higher demand for cleaning and hygiene products, home furnishings, appliances and computers. Centres like the one in Sisaket have suffered greatly from lockdowns and other restrictions during two years of pandemic.

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The Power of Two … or Perhaps Three or Four?

VMS

In the Montpellier branch, however, this is teamed up with Monop’ Daily, a French food-for-now and food-for-later retailer (and an offshoot of mid-market department store Monoprix) and a travel version of skincare and beauty retailer L’Occitane en Provence. appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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The DIY Store that May Not be All About DIY

VMS

Homebase is one of few major players in the market, and until recently it was a place you went to for cable, paint, screwdrivers – well, you get the picture. Yet it has just released a Zara Home toolset – hammers, allen keys, screwdrivers and so on. But in fact, the boundaries are increasingly confused. In the U.K.,