Tag: Stores

Retail Asia28/09/2022
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Starbucks Tuesday celebrated its 6,000th store in the Chinese mainland, located in downtown Shanghai. Shanghai thus became the first city in the world to have 1,000 Starbucks stores, Starbucks China said. In 2018, Starbucks announced it would have 6,000 stores on the Chinese mainland by the end of its fiscal year in September 2022. The […]

Retail Asia26/07/2022
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Luxury confections brand Lady M will close all outlets on the Chinese mainland by September 10 but plans to return with a new business strategy later. The New York-based patisserie brand has 27 licensed stores in Chinese cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Xiamen, as well as three food-processing plants. Customers who own prepaid cards […]

Retail Asia28/04/2022
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Lawson will begin offering Muji brand products at its 14,000 stores across Japan, as the Japanese convenience store chain aims to boost customer traffic with the popular ‘no-brand brand’ lifestyle goods. Lawson plans to replace 3,500 items with those of Muji, or about 5% of the merchandise on offer at the convenience store chain. The […]

Retail Asia29/09/2021
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The decline of brick-and-mortar retail has long been discussed in the industry, to the extent that some alarmists started to talk about its inevitable death. However, recent reports of Amazon’s plans to create a network of physical retail outlets demonstrates that in-store shopping is far from ending up on life-support. In fact, brick-and-mortar retail still […]

Retail Asia20/08/2021
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Now that it’s officially swallowed the lion’s share of online retail sales, Amazon is reportedly eyeing ways to corner our offline shopping, too. The e-commerce giant is drumming up plans to open “several” department-style stores in a handful of cities across the U.S. People familiar with the matter told the paper that these stores would […]

Retail Asia25/05/2021
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Hybe, the entertainment company behind Kpop superstars BTS, is to launch three more BTS pop-up stores across four Asian cities after success in Bangkok. The company said it will roll out the album-themed stores in Manila, Taipei and Singapore this year, due to the increasing demand for BTS merchandise. Following the launch in Bangkok earlier […]

Retail Asia18/05/2021
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We have all seen the headlines and excess of statistics about the uptick in online shopping over the past year. The global boom in eCommerce is obvious, but what is less clear is the vast impacts the last year will have on traditional retailers in the longer-term as ‘new’ consumer behaviour now becomes the ‘norm’. […]

Retail Asia06/05/2021
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South Korean ‘naturalism-oriented’ cosmetic brand Innisfree is closing all of its Canadian stores and the company is blaming the COVID-19 pandemic. Innisfree opened its first Canadian store almost two years ago and plans were in place for a cross-Canada expansion. “Circumstances have changed over the past year and we anticipate that the health and safety risks of […]

Retail Asia12/08/2020
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Japanese apparel firm World Co is shuttering 358 outlets nationwide by March next year. The move is in response to the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak and will involve jettisoning five clothing brands owned by the parents firm – including unprofitable brands Aquagirl and Ozoc – and potentially more. The closure plan will involve implementing […]


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