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IADS Retail Park — 119 episodes
Homegrown AI: Why owning the model isn't the point
The price is personal: How algorithmic pricing is reshaping retail trust
The Marks & Spencer comeback
The four phases of art and the department store
When cultural brilliance and institutional weakness run in parallel
FIFA World Cup 2026: What department stores are really playing for
Everlane & Shein: When opposites collide
Beyond the hype: How retailers are actually using the metaverse
When nobody's watching: Why cultural belonging is replacing digital persuasion
The layer nobody talks about — until It breaks
The 2024 IADS Academy: AI Readiness for Department Stores
40,000 people, 1,000 exhibitors, and one question: Is any of this real?
How Boyner turned AI readiness into a 30% efficiency gain
The $10 trillion management problem
Two businesses, one store: Why omnichannel still hasn't solved its own architecture
One door: How single-location department stores defy retail expansion logic
Can Printemps rewrite New York's luxury retail playbook from Wall Street?
Why India's 45-day festival economy rewrites the retail playbook
Hopi's Transformation: From Loyalty to FinTech Ecosystem
2020 to 2026: How DEI became retail's legal minefield
When the landlord is the brand: Inside Harrods' £2.25 billion model
Breuninger Stuttgart: Building community through services
24% vs. 71%: Department store beauty's discovery problem
The $40 Million Look Policy
Galeries Lafayette Mumbai: What it costs to open one store
The beehive that forgot its buzz
The VIC Architecture: Inside Korea's €750M system
Chinese tourists are back but not the ones you remember
What 58 department stores reveal about the gap between the economy and how consumers actually feel
Understanding the New China: From globalisation to supply control in global retail
IADS Exclusive – BHV: 170 years of history and an uncertain future
Cracking the Xiaohongshu code: Why Red Note Is China's retail goldmine
Redefining merchant excellence: From Buyers to Experience Architects
How brand ambassadors are redefining luxury retail
How Hong Kong's former airport is redefining retail as lifestyle infrastructure—and what it means for the industry
Åhléns' nordic gambit: cutting middlemen to multiply stores
NRF 2026: When tech eats retail🤖
The SHEIN Paradox: When digital dominance meets physical retail reality
When retail put DEI on trial: What a year of global research revealed
From mega-flagship to lean machine: Macy’s next chapter
Moonshot thinking: what retailers can learn from Google's Project X
The age of relevance: how retailers are redefining shopping for an aging world
From retailers to real estate moguls: The mixed-use revolution
Speed over size: digital transformation for heritage retail
When the world falls apart: Department stores in crisis mode
Relational shopping: from Magasin du Nord to Lane Crawford's WeChat revolution
Green Pea: building the world's first sustainable retail park from scratch
Beyond the store: How luxury brands are building lifestyle empires
The great unbundling: How tech is rebuilding retail from scratch
Between halo and headwinds
The great reset: How department stores navigated 2019-2021
The conscious customer revolution: how sustainability is reshaping retail forever
When being everywhere isn't enough: The real omnichannel revolution
Riyadh’s retail reality
KaDeWe Berlin: When luxury meets local community
Wellness revolution: Beyond beauty in department stores
Saks Global: American luxury’s last stand or last gasp?
When regional genius beats global giants: Inside Mecca's rise
Web3 Experiment: I.A.D.S. Tests digital assets in retail
Dubai's department store laboratory: franchise success and global retail evolution
Global risk, global opportunity
From boudoir to browser: Etam’s omnichannel evolution
Sustainability's global split: Why India, China, and the West play by different rules
Small by design: How Fortnum & Mason turned less into more
Looking back on EuroShop 2023
ChatGPT's retail revolution: promise, peril, and the path forward
Fortifying the value chain: When suppliers become your greatest cyber risk
How Boyner has holistically transformed itself
Own it! The power and pitfalls of retail's shared ownership models
Printemps reimagined: Paris’s iconic department store reinvents retail experience
Efficient, yet unremarkable : Inside IKEA’s Oxford Street flagship
From page to podcast - How AI is transforming retail storytelling at IADS
Toying with brand merchandising in Tokyo: Inside Isetan, Ginza Six, and Parco Shibuya
VivaTech 2025: The tech trends reshaping retail
Retail in NY? Fuggetaboutit—Why Jersey’s malls are winning
Product passports: Unlocking transparency and circularity in retail
Gen Alpha: The new retail powerhouse
Gen Z disruptors: How new brands are forcing stores to reinvent
Small spaces, big impact
Cidade Matarazzo: Can the city-within-a-city model shape the future of retail?
The era of digital payments
Supporting retailers in their CSR journey: Inside Pando Fashion’s playbook
Green Pea: A lab for the 100% sustainable department store?
Do department stores still need private labels? Where own brands go next…
The anatomy of a department store
Sustainability’s post-pandemic acceleration in retail
RFID attempts a comeback in retail
Revamping a Paris icon: Galeries Lafayette reinvents the department store
Supply chain 3.0: Rethinking retail’s backbone
Agile in retail: From theory to practice
From blue box to urban hub: Ikea's retail revolution
Retail jobs rewritten: What’s next for the workforce?
Agile in retail
The secret arsenal: How department stores can outmaneuver Amazon
Work reassessment: making retail attractive again 🚀
La Rinascente Milan gets ready for a change
Decoding Gen Z
La Samaritaine: LVMH's €750M bet on luxury retail's future
Eco-labels - SO WHAT?!: the truth about retail sustainability
Metro Indonesia - From local legend to regional powerhouse
Reinventing department stores: how sustainability is transforming retail’s DNA
ECOALF - Disrupting fashion's sustainability narrative
Beauty, equity, and the 90/10 rule: Thirteen Lune’s mission to redefine inclusive retail
INNO's evolution - when retail DNA splits in two
NFTs: The missing link between physical and digital retail
Monoprix, your new wellness guru 🧘♀️🛍️
Ecocert - setting the green standard in retail
BNPL - friend or foe of department stores?
Store strategy - adapt, transform, or close?
GOTS certification - The new standard in sustainable fashion retail
Paris gourmet scene - A recipe for modern luxury food retail
Amfori & retail sustainability: Simplifying ethical supply chains
Turning the page: could books make a comeback in department stores?
When innovation acquisitions fall short: Lessons from Macy’s and Nordstrom
British retail’s digital metamorphosis: The Debenhams & Topshop story
Hybrid work – retail’s new reality
Evolving retail sustainability – The B Corp certification as a survival blueprint
Survival of the fittest: Subscription models in the retail jungle
Virtual stores: the next frontier in retail