By Reuters Published June 15, 2025 “Blind box” toymaker Pop Mart, which has seen frenzied sales worldwide for products related to its ugly-cute Labubu character, opened its first jewellery store in Shanghai on Friday. Labubu The jewellery concept store, called Popop, sells accessories adorned with Pop Mart’s top-selling characters, including Labubu, Molly and Skullpanda. While…
There are grand store opening events. And then there are JD Sports opening events. The spotlight fell on Manchester’s Trafford Centre Saturday (7 June) where over 1,000 shoppers turned up for the opening of JD’s biggest ever store (41,000 sq ft), led by eight-time gold medalist athletics superstar Usain Bolt supported by YouTube group Beta…
Frasers Group has opened a concept store in the Dundee shopping centre, Overgate, that it acquired two years ago. The new store blends sports, premium fashion, lifestyle and beauty under one roof and is located in the former Debenhams unit at the centre. Debenhams closed its remaining stores four years ago when its acquisition by…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published June 6, 2025 Nodaleto returns to Paris with an “immersive” pop-up store, following its first ephemeral space in 2020 that accompanied its launch. Over six years, Julia Toledano’s shoe brand has evolved and matured, expanding into other product categories through collaborations under the new Noda line, which debuts with…
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published June 5, 2025 Inditex’s flagship brand continues to grow its international retail network. Following a recent opening in Brea, California, Zara has strengthened its presence in the United States with a new flagship store in West Los Angeles. The brand also unveiled a fully renovated location in downtown Turin….
Translated by Nicola Mira Published May 22, 2025 Italian multibrand concept store Modes, struggling with severe financial difficulties, has gone into liquidation. The high-end fashion retailer, which until 2022 used to operate some 20 stores, including two prestigious addresses in Paris and Switzerland, applied for bankruptcy protection last December, but the Milan court has decided…
Translated by Nicola Mira Published May 12, 2025 Decathlon is keen to carve out a larger slice of the pie in the increasingly popular running products segment. On May 14, the French sporting goods retailer will open its first store entirely dedicated to running, in central Bordeaux. The 160-square-metre store, as reported by Le Bonbon,…
Founded by Catherine Holstein in 2016, modern luxury brand Khaite will open its fifth Los Angeles boutique at the end of the year, in the Melrose Place neighborhood at 8400 Melrose Avenue. Khaite to open its first store Los Angeles store in place of Gucci Salon store – Gucci The address chosen by the Khaite…
In recent days, iPhone apps have been changing. The Kindle app now lets people buy books directly from its site. Spotify is offering users free trials. And Patreon, a subscription service, is letting people pay creators more money. The changes are an early look at how a recent court ruling could transform the shopping experience…
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Apple must loosen its grip on its App Store and stop collecting a commission on some app sales, capping a five-year antitrust case brought by Epic Games that aimed to change the power that Apple wields over a large slice of the digital economy. The judge, Yvonne Gonzalez…
