The store as verification in a digitally saturated world
A spot in Sephora isn’t just a marketing and sales boost. It now says to the customer that you’re legitimate.
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Retail
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Paris
The Best New Retail in Paris – July 2025
by Jack StrattenJuly 11, 2025Brands continue to flock to Paris this month for a touch of elegance, incorporating French influences throughout their store designs.
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Retail
Normal, Søstrene Grene and the strange appeal of “prison stores”
by Jack StrattenJuly 2, 2025Welcome to the prison store – a format that makes little sense in the context of modern life, and yet continues to be wildly successful.
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New York
The Best New Retail in New York – July 2025
by Jack StrattenJuly 2, 2025New York culture is attractive to brands looking to find customers interested in high end fashion and niche fragrances, with stores launching this month fitting that trend.
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Asia
The Best New Retail in Asia – July 2025
by Jack StrattenJuly 1, 2025Asia is renowned for its use of innovative technology in retail stores but the new stores opening this month are also keen to demonstrate their heritage.
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Retail
Labubu, and why queueing is interesting to the quick commerce generation
by Jack StrattenJune 20, 2025Young people – a generation brought up in a world where queueing in retail has been designed out – are choosing to queue.
