100 worldwide stores to visit.
June 30, 2008
The british business magazine Retail Week currently lists 100 of the most exciting stores allover the world on it’s website. The stores had been recommended by retail insiders, the writers and editors built their own best-of:
THE RETAIL WEEK TEAM’S SUGGESTIONS
Abercrombie & Fitch London
Tim Danaher, editor
Murder One Charing Cross Road, London
George MacDonald, deputy editor
19 Mallorca
Charlotte Hardie, features editor
Blondie Commercial Street, London E1
Katie Kilgallen, senior features writer
One Deko Spitalfields, London
Jennifer Creevy, news editor
William Rose Butchers East Dulwich, London
Michael Sullivan, art director
Victorian Village Shop Flambards theme park, Cornwall
Debora King, deputy production editor
Organica Cheddar, Somerset
Lorna Goodyer, senior sub-editor
Paul Smith Nottingham
Ben Cooper, property reporter
Barefoot Colombo, Sri Lanka
Lisa Berwin, senior reporter
Uniqlo Oxford Street West
John Ryan, stores editor
Willow & Stone Falmouth
Niall Hunt, managing editor
Runners Need Liverpool Street, London
Joanna Perry, technology editor
Eccentricities Islington, London
Amy Shields, deputy news editor
Manufactum in Cologne.
April 30, 2008
Today Manufactum opens it’s store in the city of Cologne, Germany. More than 1.000 sqm space provide the major part of the company’s catalogue-sortiment and a big food department. Read the rest of this entry »
Sustainable day in may.
April 22, 2008
A “day of sustainability” will take place at beautiful Weinstrasse-Region in central Germany on May 29th, 2008.
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Gorilla in Berlin.
March 18, 2008
Gorilla Naturally Fastfood in Berlin has just opened it’s fourth store: In the hype district around Oranienburger Strasse, at Friedrichstrasse 120.
Organic, delicious and beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »
A concept store for Zollverein.
January 19, 2008
Die Zunft AG (translated “The Guild, Inc.”), which has been mentioned here already, is getting real: Being part of Unesco Word Heritage, one of the preserved halls of Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany, is changed into the Zunft[werk] Concept Store. Read the rest of this entry »
Motherland Hamburg.
December 23, 2007
At Hamburg’s Central Station recently opened Mutterland - an ambitious food store with a neo-ecological concept. Read the rest of this entry »
40 Flagshipstores in 20 squaremeters.
December 4, 2007
Everyone has exact 1.000 cm³ retail space: at designe, kleine!, a tiny store in Frankfurt’s hip shopping district Sachsenhausen, designers rent boxes of that size to present their products monthly. Read the rest of this entry »
Shopping could be valuable.
November 27, 2007
In some cities retail space, located in the most popular pedestrian zones or the top ‘high street’ areas, cost up to 1.000 $ rent per month … per square meter. A medium-sized fashion shop there, for example, pays 200,000 $ every thirty days just for the four surrounding walls. Electricity, heating, salary for employees, advertising costs are not included - especially not the expenses to buy the merchandise. Where is the sense? Read the rest of this entry »
The Guerrilla Stores.
November 23, 2007
Comme des Garcons is a fashion brand, refusing to be one. The PradaGuccis build themselves monuments with fashion-capital’s flagship-stores - Comme des Garcons instead opens Guerilla Stores at alternative locations for just a year. And re-opens them somewhere else. Read the rest of this entry »
The Christkindlmarket in Chicago.
November 20, 2007
Slowretail series: The world’s markets, part I.
The Christkindlesmarkt in Nuremberg, Germany is famous allover the world, crowded and as fancy as possible. And it’s one of the city’s largest attractions - so it is in Chicago, IL.
The plumber’s shop.
November 16, 2007
Downtown Munich, at historical Hackenviertel, just around the corner of fashion chains and departmentstores, Der Voelkel is both a historic and modern address for bath furniture. Read the rest of this entry »
Sleepless in Berlin.
November 13, 2007
Fresh ‘N’ Friends is Berlin’s first supermarket which opens 24/7. It has been opened in a hip neighbourhood at Kastanienallee (Prenzlauer Berg) and makes both sense and fun. The “Premium Convenience” range of products is focused on the modelling and advertising customers: Read the rest of this entry »
