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Preloved fashion pop-up to take over part of Fenwick’s Bond Street store

Retail Gazette

A preloved fashion department store concept will take over part of Fenwick’s former Bond Street department store next month as the retailer shuts up shop after almost 133 years. The multi-charity shop will open for a fortnight and host events with DJs at weekends.

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. Those stores are far fewer in numbers. Phones4U collapsed into administration in 2014 and Currys-owned Carphone Warehouse closed all its standalone stores in 2020.

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How John Lewis is putting some much-needed love into its stores

Retail Gazette

John Lewis is putting “the buzz” back into its stores as it unveiled its newly upgraded Oxford Street flagship this week following a £6.5m The buzz is back in John Lewis and we’re giving our customers even more reasons to shop in our brilliant stores,” says executive director Peter Ruis. investment.

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Rainy summers and autumn heatwaves, are retail sales seasons dead?

Retail Gazette

Retail Gazette explores whether the traditional sales seasons are dead – and what retailers are doing to overcome increasingly unseasonable weather. “We encourage the guys in shops to take a look out of the window and move the umbrellas to the front or to the back depending on what it looks like,” he says.

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Sustainable Fashion: Elvis & Kresse

Retail Insider

The company used designs informed by shop floor staff at luxury department stores who told her what designs sold well every year, not just one particular year. Finally it is to her credit that Wesling can make the boast that “we’ve never had any dead stock, and no sales or discounts either”. Supported by:

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How charity shops became cool

Retail Gazette

With a smug smile you say ‘I thrifted it a while back’ This is a scene that is being played out in the bedrooms of many Gen Z shoppers as charity shops are fast-becoming the go-to destination for young shoppers, giving them access to brands they may never have been able to pick up without breaking the bank.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

Jason: [4:27] Yeah I want to say their stock was at 450 when you made that prediction and you can get it for the budget price of 1193 right now. Shop owners better than Prime 10 times as many subscribers I. I kind of suspect sharpener was a little bit of a sort of a budget exit for for shop Runner. Jason: [5:57] I believe.