Affairs / Retail
Style is substance
This issue, Monocle throws a rigorous retail report into the usual mix of articles and briefings in the form of the Style Directory. Where to shop, who to watch and what to buy: we’ve got every angle covered.
- 668 results for retail
Design / Retail
Shopping heaven
Tokyo’s Ginza district is already one of Japan’s top spots for department stores and upmarket shopping. Now it has two very different new additions.
Business / Retail
What's in store
In tough economic times, shops will need something special to keep customers. Monocle’s new star retailers are a supermarket with a concierge, a childrenswear store with staff chosen for their childcare skills, and a boo…
Edits / Retail
Handmade Retailers
Monocle finds out why children's books sometimes appeal to adults, learns how to boost employment in the regions with a Heidelberg printing press, and muses on the difference between art books and books about art. These are…
Affairs / Retail
Retail therapy
In the wake of bank bail-outs and car industry rescue plans, retail giants could find themselves standing next in line with begging bowls in hand. But it’s a re-think that’s really needed to keep the high street healthy.
Edits / Urbanism
Fukuoka: retail city
Friendly, cosmopolitan Fukuoka is tiny in comparison to Tokyo, but it beats the Japanese capital hands down with its cuisine and shopping. That’s why itis Monocle’s choice for our best retail city award.
Business / Retail
Talking shop
From tailor-made coffee to a well-known British supermarket brand, these examples of good retail and service go further than the average store, thanks to bold ambition, piece-by-piece quality and a passion for pleasing…
Edits / Retail
Shop idols
Sometimes it takes just one retailer to unite an entire neighbourhood and restore a sense of old-fashioned community between residents and other shop owners, restaurateurs and civil servants. We’ve found 10 doing just that…
Edits / Retail
Retail Stars
Monocle's retail and service survey chronicles companies and people who are setting benchmarks we should all take note of. Saul Taylor reports on three entrepreneurial ventures doing just that.
Edits / Food & Drink
Rich pickings
As the Shinkansen continues to speed north in Japan, operator JR East is also diversifying its retail – with apples.
Affairs / Food & Drink
The future of food
Can “big food” companies help chart a fresh future for food retail? Or are supermarkets always bad?
Business / Craft
Handmade retailers
We love to champion retailers who make a point of differentiating themselves from other stores on the high street. Monocle films travels to Buenos Aires, New York and Budapest to visit specialist shops where "making" is…
Business / Retail
Taipei Retail
Taipei has long lived in the shadow of its glitzier neighbours when it comes to retail. But now the range and quality of products on offer are firming up the Taiwanese capital’s place on Asia’s shopping map.
Edits / Food & Drink
Neighbourhood Watch
From Dutch bread-making philanthropists to a pioneering food co-op in the heart of London, vernacular retail is thriving. Even an established supermarket giant is getting in on the local act.
Business / Small Business
Winning team
A former sporting arena has been reborn in the centre of Toronto as the flagship store of Canadian supermarket Loblaws. The city’s traditional home of ice hockey now houses fresh produce. Monocle went to see if the crowds…
Business / Retail
The shopping forecast
A special report on the state of global retail and how to go about fixing it.
Edits / Retail
Christmas Gift Guide 2009
In the final days leading up to Christmas we have compiled a last-minute gift list for those in search of inspiration.
Edits / Retail
Things to improve your life
Our 2009 global round-up of the people, places and pursuits to improve the way you love, work and rest.
Edits / Retail
THE MONOCLE BRIEFINGS: Part Two
Monocle visits a watchmaking school in Switzerland and a bespoke bicycle retailer in Melbourne. A film from the Monocle television series on Bloomberg.
Affairs / Retail
Monocolumn
Tuesday 27 November
Malodorous marketing
Brad Pitt in black and white, staring at me from behind a row of lipsticks in the perfume hall of a London department store. It stopped me in my tracks.