Category: value retailing
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Freestanding Fashion: Tesco oFF & Running
An established attraction within Tesco stores the familiar face of F+F now has a fascia, proud and prominent in the Earls Court flagship store. A mezzanine with meaning. Womenswear takes the stage with a friendly functional fit-out clearly segmented in formal casual and lingerie. The mezzanine situation provides a welcome firebreak from the frantic food…
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Pitch Perfect: Sports Direct Playing the Field
Pitch Perfect: Sports Direct Playing the Field If you want to see some clues as to what the new Mike Ashley House of Fraser might look like, then a good starting point are the new Sports Direct/USC/Flannels superstores. One of the latest is at Lakeside where a 10,000sqm sports and lifestyle experience has taken shape.…
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“Commercial Retail” Overstocking & Under-Valuing the World?
I remember a comment from a best practice range review from some years ago. Having spent a couple of days reviewing the client’s own assortment and comparing with detailed visuals of best practice and competitor ranges, the chairman sighed and leaning back in his chair exclaimed “Who buys all this stuff?” At the time…
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Spanish Statement: The Primark Pinnacle of Pre-eminence
The last decade has seen the rise of Primark as a tour de force in the world of value fashion as it strides from the UK and Ireland across Spain, Germany, Italy and now to the United States. It is easy but incorrect to brand Primark as simply low prices. These it certainly has through…
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Primark Weighs in State Side: Entry of a Fashion Heavyweight
In a statement of international intent Primark fired its first style salvo into the soft belly of the US value fashion market with the opening of its 8,000 sqm Boston flagship. Truly a shopping space full of superlatives, the four floors are home to 530 mannequins, 84 fitting rooms, 73 cash registers and a…
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Take a Tour under the Duvet: Primark Pinterest Lounge wear
In the strange world between day and night, asleep and awake, and battle is underway, from underwear to outerwear, for the hearts and minds, for the pennies and the pounds, that make up the slumbering giant that is loungewear. The beast goes by different names from the familiar lounge wear, through home wear, day…
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Primark Pillow Talk: Delighting the Divas of the Duvet
In the strange world between day and night, asleep and awake, a battle is underway, from underwear to outerwear, for the hearts and minds, for the pennies and the pounds, that make up the slumbering giant that is loungewear. The beast goes by different names from the familiar lounge wear, through home wear, day…
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Ale House Rocks: Hip-hopping impulse shopping
Famous for its half-in half-out life-size plastic cows, catching by surprise the passer-by, herding them helplessly into the green pastures of impulse grazing, the power of Ale-Hop lays in its meticulously constructed category assortment. No hollow gesture, Ale-Hop literally bursts with colour and creativity. Never have so many of so few made such a…
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Tiger in your tank: Pinterest Gallery
Tiger, with its impulse offer and low prices, is thriving and turning up not only in secondary locations and low-rent backwaters but on some of the most expensive streets in London. After a trial in Tottenham Court Road, the Danish destination has opened its doors on Oxford Street, rubbing shoulders with value giants such as…
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Tiger Earns Its Stripes: The Cat In Search of the Cream of London
Natural survivors evolve and expand beyond their traditional habitats widening their historical distribution. Tiger, with its impulse offer and low prices, is thriving and turning up not only in secondary locations and low-rent backwaters but on some of the most expensive streets in London. After a trial in Tottenham Court Road, the Danish destination…
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