It’s no secret that many shopping malls have been struggling as Americans buy more stuff online. Now some malls are catching the eye of Wall Street speculators who think they’ve found a way to profit from such woes.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
When Dmitrii Dvornikov first started selling jewelry and table clocks made from semiprecious Russian stones such as burgundy-colored eudialyte or lilaceous charoit, he had a hard time expanding beyond local industrial fairs and exhibitions.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
One of customers’ biggest pain points in a supermarket is the checkout, and California Fresh Market, in San Luis Obispo, Calif, introduced an app to relieve the stress of picking the right line when the store opened last November.
Source: Progressive Grocer
Concept: This former by-appointment-only, online-founded store features an industrial streetscape vibe, aiming to attract sawy urban consumers in the brand’s first brick-and-mortar space. Source: VMSD
Adidas (Herzogenaurach, Germany) premiered its global brand flagship in New York this past December at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 46th street, adjacent to Times Square – arguably one of the world’s most prominent meccas of consumerism and tourism.
Source: VMSD
This past January, VMSD editors attended the 106th National Retail Federation (NRF) Retail’s Big Show, the industry’s largest trade show and conference dedicated to innovation in retail, at New York’s Javits Center.
Source: VMSD
Since its founding this past year, Lumen Optical (Kildeer, hi.) sought to redefine the conventional eye care environment. Presented with only a watercolor of a bespectacled woman – who the designers nicknamed “lumen” .
Source: VMSD
From indoor skydiving to movie theaters, retailers are proving consumers desire what experiental concepts have to offer.
Source: VMSD
Given the often kiosk-size nature of mobile phone and cellular service shops, a two-floor AT&T (Dallas) store measuring 24,000 square feet would be noteworthy in its own right.
Source: VMSD
Designing a new super-market concept is sometimes a test, but when more than a third of the space has to function as a gastronomy and food-to-go destination, then the proverbial “thinking caps” must go on.
Source: VMSD
In 1978, Brian Smith arrived in Southern California from Australia with a suitcase filled with sheepskin surfer boots. Before long, the boots became a big hit, and Ugg was born.
Source:VMSD
KipTindell, da Container Store e chairman da NRF, deu um recado claro: o maior ativo da indùstria de varejo é a energia e o talento de sua força de traballio e produtos e serviços tecnológicos sào commodities, mas as pessoas nâo.
Source: SuperVarejo