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Shopping Culture
The American Mall Has Quietly Come Back — But Not in the Way Anyone Predicted
Simon Property Group, Westfield and the major U.S. mall operators are reporting their best results in a decade. The reasons have very little to do with traditional retail.
The Commerce Desk · 7 min read
Shopping Culture
Europe's High Streets Are Reinventing Themselves Faster Than the Headlines Suggest
London, Paris, Berlin and a long list of European cities are quietly running some of the most successful retail rebounds in the world.
Sofia Lindqvist · 7 min read
Shopping Culture
How TikTok and Instagram Have Permanently Changed What Shopping Looks Like
From product photography to store design to brand identity, the visual language of modern commerce has been almost entirely rewritten by social-platform aesthetics.
Daniel Ortiz · 7 min read
Shopping Culture
Experiential Retail Is Quietly Becoming the Most Profitable Floor Space in Modern Stores
Lego's flagship stores, the American Dream complex and a generation of experience-led retail formats are demonstrating that consumers will pay for time as well as goods.
Priya Anand · 7 min read