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China Watch: Self-Serve Convenience Stores

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China Watch: Self-Serve Convenience Stores

Self-service stores is a big thing in China. At what point will Chinese companies lead and businesses like Amazon follow?

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Breakfast meeting @ Retail Week Prospect, 4 Dec 2017

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Breakfast meeting @ Retail Week Prospect, 4 Dec 2017

As many other traditional publishers, Retail Week have suffered from a slump in paper copy sales and have moved online. However, with the variety of sources available online the company has had to look at other ways to monetise its network, connections and expertise. Retail Week Prospect is one such initiative. Retail Week Prospect is an extensive database of 180 of the largest UK retailers including deep analysis of strategic direction, IT investment focus in the near future, key contacts and much more. If you are business developing/prospecting for your IT supply outfit and building your UK retailer network you...

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Fashion Discount Outlets; The Open Secret

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Fashion Discount Outlets; The Open Secret

Acne Jeans/ Acne Studios outlet store fascia. Twenty minutes drive South from Gothenburg lies a small inconspicuous town called Kungsbacka, a typical mid-sized Swedish town with a population of about 20,000. It has a few grocery stores and a number of generic stores selling whatever. Google Map instructions how to get to Hede Fashion Outlet  by car. Someone once decided to set-up a 'Bicester Village type outlet' in this part of Sweden "Hede Fashion Outlet" in Kungsbacka. We don't know why or how they did it. Nothing particular about this, but what is extraordinary is that they also managed to...

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Online going Offline: VR360 of Made.com store on Tottenham Court Road, London

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Online going Offline: VR360 of Made.com store on Tottenham Court Road, London

Made.com, the online furniture store, opened their physical 'guideshop' on Tottenham Court Road in early 2015. We took a stroll in the store on Dec 7, 2016.  This is a 360 Virtual Reality video. If you cannot see the film in VR try viewing with another browser. For more information like this contact us  

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A walk in Seven Dials in London Dec 7th, 2016 - 360 Video

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A walk in Seven Dials in London Dec 7th, 2016 - 360 Video

Will December trade save retailers? Not on this evidence... We took a stroll in Covent Garden (or Seven Dials as the main retail estate owner prefers to call it - Shaftesbury plc) to check out the Christmas mood. See for yourself, its not Neal Street Neal Street, 7 Dec 2016 @ approx 16:00. Stores are not very busy. Quite a few empty stores and pop-ups. #Pylones #Offspring #HappySocks #Speedo #Superga #Havaianas #Tabio #Office #NaturalShoeCompany #Sole  Monmouth Street   Earlham Street  

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