Posts Tagged ‘shop’

A mouth-watering new store for lovers of antique French furniture and home accessories has just opened in Islington, named Pigment and Patina. The shop has been launched by interior decorators Nicholas Carr-Forster and Stephan Oberwegner, who are specialising in rustic-looking mirrors, hemp textiles, ceramics and enamel ware.
The designers describe the  new shop as the ‘leading London [...]

Selfridges in London is launching a posh pop-up charity shop in conjunction with Oxfam on May 14, where clothes worn by the stars such as Annie Lennox, Alexa Chung and Elle Macpherson will be up for auction.
The shop will open from Friday 14 May to Thursday 20 May in Selfridges’ Ultralounge, the London store’s permanent [...]

A report in yesterday’s Evening Standard described how a third of motorists avoid shopping in the centre of London because convenient parking is both scarce and heinously expensive. This is bad news for upmarket stores as shoppers who take their vehicles spend around £100 more on their trips than those who use public transport. 500 [...]

Retail Week has set out a ‘Manifesto for the High Street’, detailing what the Government, local authorities and retailers need to do in order to breathe new life into the UK retail environment. The ten point plan is as follows:
1. Provide free town centre parking for shoppers: Councils need to recognise the role of safe [...]

Shop was intrigued to read on Market Insight that Dave Dodd, who co-founded Poundland, is plotting to develop a variety chain by the name of Hub. Despite Dodd’s protestations to the contrary, the business proposal looks set to plug some of the remaining gaps on the high street (and in shopping centres) left by Woolworths. [...]

An Anglican vicar has provoked a minor outrage by suggesting that shoplifting from major retailers is not necessarily a crime if one is poor and hungry enough. Father Tim Jones, vicar at the Church of St Lawrence in York was reported to have said in his latest Sunday sermon that: “My advice, as a Christian priest, [...]

Sir Mick Jagger rushed from Paris yesterday to support his daughter Jade, who launched her first stand-alone boutique jewellery shop in Notting Hill yesterday. Speaking to The Evening Standard, Jade said that when you put brands together in a shop “it just brings it all together”. The store itself, which is named after it’s glamorous [...]

There may be an alchemical transmutation taking place this week, as gold hits the headlines in various dimensions and myriad guises.

While the price of this most desirable commodity hits record highs, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein (which rhymes with bank-fiend) has jocularly announced that he is “doing God’s work.’

Well, so [...]

A three floor pop-up store entirely devoted to Marmite has opened in Regent Street and will be open in the run up to Christmas and into the New Year. More than a 100 themed products are on offer including keyings, Paddington marmite-themed plush and stationery, while an in-store cafe will sell Marmite with toast or [...]

In an article that appears in the Guardian newspaper today, the author Anthony Cummins criticises book publisher Penguin for its licensing programme, saying it is “in danger of losing sight” of its raison d’etre.
Cummins, it seems, is not so much at odds with the idea of Penguin-themed mugs, notebooks, canvases and even deckchairs, but rather [...]