New definition of effective retail.

The web-project Worldchanging recently gave some new interpretations of effective retail, beyond ancient rules like space-efficiency, low staff-costs and huge product margins. Here is the post to be found.

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New green-fashion fair ‘thekey.to’ in Berlin.

Frans Prins is actively involved in new green lifestyle and he now starts a new fair for organic fashion in Berlin: thekey.to. Coinciding with the new Bread & Butter trade show at the former airport Tempelhof thekey.to will be held in early July 2009 at a secret location in Berlin. Besides all the other embarrassing [...]

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Slowretail goes XING.

Slowretail has recently founded it’s own group at the online-network-platform XING. The slowretail-group addresses customers, traders, producers, manufacturers, real estate people, city-governments, individuals – who believe in different retail-worlds co-existing with uninspired mainstream reality. Who know about the chances for profit generated by creativity, not just with “fast moving consumer goods” and discount concepts. Group [...]

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A concept store for Zollverein.

   Deutsche Version 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.  

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Innovative guild places.

A remarkable idea becomes more and more true: Die Zunft AG, translated something like ‘The Guild, Inc.’ realizes innovative places which combine tradition and modern lifestyle in a unique way.

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‘I love Cool Stuff’ in Berlin-Mitte

Major brands and big retail chains have already discovered the ”hot spot” Berlin-Mitte for themselves and displace the independent stores in the side streets. There they are naturally more difficult to find, the masses follow travel guides first, even in Berlin. 

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