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Anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection
shopping trolleys
What's Walmart, do they sell like wall stuff?
Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.
Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that cold be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.
The windows of the
To Steve, these stores were pulling off something he had never been able to manage: they sold a lifestyle product at an absurdly high margin by presenting it in a beautiful and yet informative way.
The storerooms are full of hearts.
This is the city of spare parts.
And now, the Superstore - unequaled in size, unmatched in variety, unrivaled inconvenience.
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos ...
The business of procuring the necessities of life has been shifted from the wood lot, the garden, the kitchen and the family to the factory and the large-scale enterprise. In our case, we moved our center back to the land.
We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
soldiers on the battlefield of consumerism, armed with vinyl-covered checkbooks and quilted handbags.
Now there's a huge building in its place, what they call a shopping complex, as if shopping were a psychic disease.
What are you working on?" "I'm trying to set up a store to sell baskets of none-of-your-fucking-business at wholesale prices.
You can walk through the grocery store and, while the brightly colored packaging and empty promises are still mesmerizing, you can see the products for what they are.
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.
Retailing is a unique destination. What you need is stronger critical mass.
The signs of older times could still be seen on the facades of sealed buildings: Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie & Fitch - merchants that had sold things people didn't necessarily need but always wanted.
When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bowler hats. It was into this world that I launched my new ideas about fashion.
Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.
That shot moved like ... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut
A lot of weird ads. Sally Struthers with that little kid: 'Just 55 cents, the price of a cup of coffee, feeds this kid and his family for a week.' Yeah, where is that? 'Cause I wanna move there.
How he described the bookshop: where the streets of the world meet the avenues of the mind.
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
The small stores were just destined to disappear, at least in the numbers they once existed, because the whole thing is driven by the customers, who are free to choose where to shop.
Merchant's Ware, the city most people thought of as the real city. Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd each be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-aboveboard way known as doing business.
I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.
Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
Identifying niches and filling them is the bread and butter of the regular interplay between markets and entrepreneurs.
The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.
Cute kids, really cute clothes. I'd just created a tagline for Wind Gaps' li'l shoppers.
Welcome to Tippington Fountains Shopping Center!" The doors opened to reveal the shopping mall before them. The store doors sparkled with shiny chrome handles, glass elevators rose smoothly between
I remember as a child hearing of the horrors of life in the Soviet Union. There was supposedly only one kind of store, a gigantic windowless dispensary staffed by listless, surly functionaries selling cheaply made, generic goods. It sounds a lot like Wal-Mart.
Upfronts are all about ad sales.
Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.
Boy, a drive-through liquor store. God bless America! A place where you can drive through and buy whiskey, beer ... just the thing for that drunk driver who's constantly on the go. Cant stop now! I've got places to go, people to hit!
Laundromats ... like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.
building the assets of your business.
Opportunities and choices.
Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
Whenever you're at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, What would make a betterstory?
California, the department store state.
I'm a massive shopper. Topshop, Urban Outfitters - I'm pretty at home on the high street.
In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private developers responded to the lack of planned centers, public space, and public facilities in suburbs by building malls, office parks, and industrial parks as well as fast-food restaurants and motels.
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
Brownstone building overlooking the East River. A bunch of BMWs and
the front door of our apartment,
When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
Each store will fulfil some of your needs, but no individual store can meet all of your needs. Learning how to set realistic expectations now and in future relationships requires you to examine each of the existing stores to see what they can offer.
Bargain ... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.
I tell everybody there are only three things that we do. We build sales at the store level, we build profits at the store level, and we build more stores. The first two things go in tandem, of course. It's pretty tough to build profits without sales.
There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
I try to figure out the marketing puzzle.
I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.
We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.
Downtown is divided again, between the blocks of brick emporiums of the 1880s and a straggle of modern stores which look as if they have been squeezed from a tube labeled Instant Shopping Center.
A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model 'The Mesh.'
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day,
We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.
Home Health Sales
I only like boutiques.
In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
Close the playand keep the store open nights.
The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market.
At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products ... and sell that to everyone.
Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.
I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans.
Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
the sort of place you went when you had no other options.
It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.
Brands that stand out from the competition are purposefully disruptive or different
Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
Strip malls are history.
Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.
And of storehouses and of freight-trains - destruction
I find supermarkets fascinating places. It's extraordinary, you can buy anything there.
Storehouses filled with merchandise will prove a better guarantee than arsenals bulging with ammunition.
42nd Street with its quarter mile of marquees offering porn of all types, colors, sizes, and flavors.
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.
I invite you all to visit our new Harold Square or Space 98 stores in New York. I think you'll agree with me that these stores have a distinct Urban Outfitters personality, with fresh, exciting product and an experience that resonates with the 18 to 28 year old urban-dwelling customer.
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I like the Valentino store in Rome.Because in Rome when I'd be riding my bike, that store is right next to the Spanish Steps, and it gets so crowded there, so I could sometimes duck into the Valentino store and go up to the top floor and have a little espresso and just relax and take it easy.
When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the ... into the store.
Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.