GDR’s John O’Sullivan explores the experiential spaces that are constantly evolving to keep customers coming back for more. During the last six months we’ve noticed a real spike in the number of new multi-brand retail stores…
Two weeks after writing this article unpicking the future of cashless stores, GDR’s SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella visits Sainsbury’s new “till-free” store to interrogate the format from the customer’s and the brand’s perspective. I was…
H&M’s new homeware flagship on London’s Regent Street focusses on high style over high tech. Innovation researcher Harriet Cox went along to check it out. Coming just months after the brand opened its first dedicated Home…
GDR CEO Kate Ancketill discusses personalisation, sustainability, transparency and how beauty brands are working hard to fit into the wider context of their customers’ lives Earlier this year GDR CEO Kate Ancketill spoke to Retail Focus…
US personal care brand Burt’s Bees has launched a three week pop-up store in London’s Covent Garden to promote its new colour cosmetics range. Innovation researchers Harriet Cox and Charlie Lloyd went down to check it…
The shop window at multi-brand New York concept store Showfields proclaims it to be “The most interesting store in the world”. GDR SVP Global Innovation Alex Sbardella dropped in when he was in town to put…
H&M has redesigned its three-floor store in London’s Hammersmith to look nothing like H&M. GDR’s Babette-Scarlett Schossau paid it a visit to see how the space has been transformed. H&M gave its 2,300 square metre store…
GDR innovation researcher Babette-Scarlett Schossau describes the emotional rollercoaster of visiting a store where you can walk out without paying. As a new customer to Dirty Lemon, I didn’t know what to expect when I walked…
Italian fresh filled pasta brand La Famiglia Rana has launched in the UK with a pop-up grocery store in London. Framing its pre-prepared product alongside fresh ingredients, the store is as much a feast for the…
On the opening day of London’s newest shopping destination, GDR’s Charlie Lloyd went along to experience the Heatherwick Studio-designed space, which houses a variety of brands and eateries in renovated Victorian industrial buildings. The redevelopment…