Hosted by International Association of Department Stores - IADS · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 113 episodes
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🦖 Welcome to IADS Retail Park—where retail giants evolve or go extinct. Department stores get dismissed as dinosaurs all the time. But the best ones aren't fossils, they're transforming faster than most people realise. The IADS Retail Park delivers exclusive insights, transformation strategies, and expert analysis from the International Association of Department Stores. Built for executives and strategists who need actionable takeaways without the fluff. Because let's be honest: in retail today, you're either adapting or you're already behind. iads.substack.com
International Association of Department Stores - IADS hosts IADS Retail Park, a news show with 113 episodes published.
In this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya sits down with Anchita, Head of Analysis and Prospectives at I.A.D.S. and author of this week’s exclusive, to examine why the advertising infrastructure retail built over
They're not in the keynotes. They're not in the strategy decks. But when a retail transformation actually lands — when AI gets adopted, when a store team holds together under pressure, when corporate strategy turns into
In this episode of The I.A.D.S. Retail Park 🎧, Maya and Christine, explore the 2024 IADS Academy’s work on AI decision-making for retailers. A cohort of next-gen executives tackled “machine customers,” built the AIRI re
Every January, retail's biggest names descend on New York for the NRF Big Show 🎙️ — and 2025 was reportedly a record edition: 40,000 attendees, 1,000 exhibitors, and more AI claims than you could count. In this episode,
Zara has closed 600+ stores since 2019—but total selling space has grown. Their new flagships look like "monobrand department stores" with local architecture, cafés, and luxury-grade design. What can department stores le
In this episode of IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Selvane, Managing Director of IADS, dissect this week's exclusive on the $10 trillion cost of manager disengagement. Drawing on Gallup's 2025 and 2026 State of the Global
Department stores have run two business models simultaneously for over fifteen years. The result is a financial architecture that punishes omnichannel behaviour from the inside out. In this episode, Maya and Selvane, unp
What does it take to build a retail empire on a single address? Maya and Christine examine the strategic logic behind the world's most iconic single-location department stores. From Royal Navy ship timbers to circus perf
Zara has closed 600+ stores since 2019—but total selling space has grown. Their new flagships look like "monobrand department stores" with local architecture, cafés, and luxury-grade design. What can department stores le
45 days. 50% of annual grocery sales. 30-40% of automobile revenue. India’s festival season isn’t a shopping event — it’s an economic restructuring that happens every year. 🪔 This week on IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and
25 billion Turkish lira in GMV. 18.3 million users. 550 business partners. Hopi isn’t a loyalty program anymore—it’s a B2B2C platform that does loyalty, MarTech, AdTech, and FinTech simultaneously. 💳 This week on IADS R
Target ended DEI in January 2025—four days after Trump's executive orders. By January 2026, when ICE agents detained US citizens in Minnesota stores, Target said nothing. That silence defines the bind facing US retailers
£24,000 per square metre. 18% operating margin. One building. One UK tax change cost it £80-90 million. 💷 Maya and Selvane examine the landlord-brand model that made Harrods one of the world's most productive retailers—
🎧 In this episode: Why Breuninger’s credit card captures 71% of turnover 💳 | How personal shoppers recruit at operas and cultural events 🎭 | The 3-minute runner system in footwear 👟 | Mrs. & Hugs private label succes
This week on IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Christine examine what department stores are actually building with these renovations — from Nordstrom‘s 1,670 sqm Beauty Bar to Macy’s 5,000 sqm commitment to Galeries Lafayet
In 2006, Abercrombie & Fitch‘s CEO said it on the record: “Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.” It was company policy. And it cost them everything. 👀This week on IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Christopher trace A&F‘s decad
In this episode of IADS Retail Park 🎙️, we explore Galeries Lafayette's seven-year journey to open India's first true luxury department store 🏛️Based on IADS Exclusive: 👉 "A landmark entry: Galeries Lafayette and the
€200M invested. Breuer's building. Gucci on the ground floor. But De Bijenkorf Rotterdam's VIP services? Invisible. 👻 This week, Maya & Christine walk all five floors to find the gap between execution and visibility—and
🏢 A 40-year-old department store. 33,000 sqm. €750M in annual revenue. How? Korea built an entire VIC architecture where 5% of customers drive half the sales—through transparent €94K thresholds, allocation control, and
In this episode, Maya and Selvane unpack an exclusive from 2023 on the seismic shift in Chinese tourism post-reopening. 🛫 What do Galeries Lafayette, Harrods, and El Corte Inglés have in common? They rewrote the playboo
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