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All Episodes

IADS Retail Park — 103 episodes

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Can Printemps rewrite New York's luxury retail playbook from Wall Street?

2

Why India's 45-day festival economy rewrites the retail playbook

3

Hopi's Transformation: From Loyalty to FinTech Ecosystem

4

2020 to 2026: How DEI became retail's legal minefield

5

When the landlord is the brand: Inside Harrods' £2.25 billion model

6

Breuninger Stuttgart: Building community through services

7

24% vs. 71%: Department store beauty's discovery problem

8

The $40 Million Look Policy

9

Galeries Lafayette Mumbai: What it costs to open one store

10

The beehive that forgot its buzz

11

The VIC Architecture: Inside Korea's €750M system

12

Chinese tourists are back but not the ones you remember

13

What 58 department stores reveal about the gap between the economy and how consumers actually feel

14

Understanding the New China: From globalisation to supply control in global retail

15

IADS Exclusive – BHV: 170 years of history and an uncertain future

16

Cracking the Xiaohongshu code: Why Red Note Is China's retail goldmine

17

Redefining merchant excellence: From Buyers to Experience Architects

18

How brand ambassadors are redefining luxury retail

19

How Hong Kong's former airport is redefining retail as lifestyle infrastructure—and what it means for the industry

20

Åhléns' nordic gambit: cutting middlemen to multiply stores

21

NRF 2026: When tech eats retail🤖

22

The SHEIN Paradox: When digital dominance meets physical retail reality

23

When retail put DEI on trial: What a year of global research revealed

24

From mega-flagship to lean machine: Macy’s next chapter

25

Moonshot thinking: what retailers can learn from Google's Project X

26

The age of relevance: how retailers are redefining shopping for an aging world

27

From retailers to real estate moguls: The mixed-use revolution

28

Speed over size: digital transformation for heritage retail

29

When the world falls apart: Department stores in crisis mode

30

Relational shopping: from Magasin du Nord to Lane Crawford's WeChat revolution

31

Green Pea: building the world's first sustainable retail park from scratch

32

Beyond the store: How luxury brands are building lifestyle empires

33

The great unbundling: How tech is rebuilding retail from scratch

34

Between halo and headwinds

35

The great reset: How department stores navigated 2019-2021

36

The conscious customer revolution: how sustainability is reshaping retail forever

37

When being everywhere isn't enough: The real omnichannel revolution

38

Riyadh’s retail reality

39

KaDeWe Berlin: When luxury meets local community

40

Wellness revolution: Beyond beauty in department stores

41

Saks Global: American luxury’s last stand or last gasp?

42

When regional genius beats global giants: Inside Mecca's rise

43

Web3 Experiment: I.A.D.S. Tests digital assets in retail

44

Dubai's department store laboratory: franchise success and global retail evolution

45

Global risk, global opportunity

46

From boudoir to browser: Etam’s omnichannel evolution

47

Sustainability's global split: Why India, China, and the West play by different rules

48

Small by design: How Fortnum & Mason turned less into more

49

Looking back on EuroShop 2023

50

ChatGPT's retail revolution: promise, peril, and the path forward

51

Fortifying the value chain: When suppliers become your greatest cyber risk

52

How Boyner has holistically transformed itself

53

Own it! The power and pitfalls of retail's shared ownership models

54

Printemps reimagined: Paris’s iconic department store reinvents retail experience

55

Efficient, yet unremarkable : Inside IKEA’s Oxford Street flagship

56

From page to podcast - How AI is transforming retail storytelling at IADS

57

Toying with brand merchandising in Tokyo: Inside Isetan, Ginza Six, and Parco Shibuya

58

VivaTech 2025: The tech trends reshaping retail

59

Retail in NY? Fuggetaboutit—Why Jersey’s malls are winning

60

Product passports: Unlocking transparency and circularity in retail

61

Gen Alpha: The new retail powerhouse

62

Gen Z disruptors: How new brands are forcing stores to reinvent

63

Small spaces, big impact

64

Cidade Matarazzo: Can the city-within-a-city model shape the future of retail?

65

The era of digital payments

66

Supporting retailers in their CSR journey: Inside Pando Fashion’s playbook

67

Green Pea: A lab for the 100% sustainable department store?

68

Do department stores still need private labels? Where own brands go next…

69

The anatomy of a department store

70

Sustainability’s post-pandemic acceleration in retail

71

RFID attempts a comeback in retail

72

Revamping a Paris icon: Galeries Lafayette reinvents the department store

73

Supply chain 3.0: Rethinking retail’s backbone

74

Agile in retail: From theory to practice

75

From blue box to urban hub: Ikea's retail revolution

76

Retail jobs rewritten: What’s next for the workforce?

77

Agile in retail

78

The secret arsenal: How department stores can outmaneuver Amazon

79

Work reassessment: making retail attractive again 🚀

80

La Rinascente Milan gets ready for a change

81

Decoding Gen Z

82

La Samaritaine: LVMH's €750M bet on luxury retail's future

83

Eco-labels - SO WHAT?!: the truth about retail sustainability

84

Metro Indonesia - From local legend to regional powerhouse

85

Reinventing department stores: how sustainability is transforming retail’s DNA

86

ECOALF - Disrupting fashion's sustainability narrative

87

Beauty, equity, and the 90/10 rule: Thirteen Lune’s mission to redefine inclusive retail

88

INNO's evolution - when retail DNA splits in two

89

NFTs: The missing link between physical and digital retail

90

Monoprix, your new wellness guru 🧘‍♀️🛍️

91

Ecocert - setting the green standard in retail

92

BNPL - friend or foe of department stores?

93

Store strategy - adapt, transform, or close?

94

GOTS certification - The new standard in sustainable fashion retail

95

Paris gourmet scene - A recipe for modern luxury food retail

96

Amfori & retail sustainability: Simplifying ethical supply chains

97

Turning the page: could books make a comeback in department stores?

98

When innovation acquisitions fall short: Lessons from Macy’s and Nordstrom

99

British retail’s digital metamorphosis: The Debenhams & Topshop story

100

Hybrid work – retail’s new reality

101

Evolving retail sustainability – The B Corp certification as a survival blueprint

102

Survival of the fittest: Subscription models in the retail jungle

103

Virtual stores: the next frontier in retail