From futuristic cash-register technology to staff trained as vegetable sommeliers to exhibitors promoting their concoctions, Japan’s Supermarket Trade Show had the highest turnout yet and offers new ideas for an increasi…
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…
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…
Can “big food” companies help chart a fresh future for food retail? Or are supermarkets always bad?
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.
India’s distaste for international supermarkets, Turkey as a role model and we learn how smartphones are keeping an eye on Egypt’s elections.
A look at Liberian politics, a trip to Brussels to learn about newspaper printing abroad and how supermarkets are influencing fine art.
Thursday 24 May
I hate the UK’s supermarket chain Tesco, or at least I think I do.
Thursday 21 July
With global retailers turning the screws and consumers demanding more choice, the Indian government is finally considering removing restrictions on supermarket chains.
Big supermarkets are banned, independent businesses abound and there’s a human scale on the shop floor. All of this makes Paris Europe’s retail capital.
Canadians go south for cheap flights, Shanghai gets virtual supermarkets in its subways, plus Melbourne's laneways get some investment.
We discuss physical vs online retail, ask why Spanish supermarket Mercadona is still producing jobs, and hear from the Interieur design biennale in Belgium.
Europe’s first fully vegan supermarket, how Delhi translates western food culture, and we chat with food critic Jay Rayner.
Alpine design in our supermarket aisles, why luxury yacht makers claim to be tightening their belts and an interview with an accordian playing national icon.
Coop is the second largest retailer in Switzerland after Migros, with about 1,500 outlets and 44,000 employees. In 2005, it had a turnover of €8.6bn. It has 20 per cent of the country’s food retail business. As well as…
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…
Musician Matthew Herbert discusses his new supermarket-based album, we talk Olympic romances, and have a frosty visit from ice cream specialists, the Icecreamists.
Tuesday 28 June
Few states do superlatives quite like the Emirates. Highest this, biggest that. There was even a press release doing the rounds for a while about the world’s tallest pyramid of Airwick air fresheners being assembled in a…
Swiss retailer Coop has opened a supermarket just outside Zürich for the discerning shopper. Not only is the company promoting provenance and sustainability with its products, but it is also building stores that raise the…
Swiss retailer Coop has opened a supermarket just outside Zürich for the discerning shopper. Not only is the company promoting provenance and sustainability with its products, but it is also building stores that raise the…
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