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South Korean retailer Shinsegae E-Mart, which sells everything rose 23.2 per cent in August to South Korea from 116 to 150. Macy’s to roll out SoHo
is to open 100 discount hyper- from food to electricals and Yn876.8 billion (£72.05 billion). The National Bureau of Sta- Department store group
markets in China by 2015 in household goods. It has 15 stores Shinsegae chairman Koo tistics reported that for the first Macy’s will roll out its new
an attempt to take advantage of in China at present. Hak-su is understood to want to eight months of the year, retail Bloomingdales SoHo store
the country’s fast-growing con- Last month, China’s retail sales open five more stores in China sales in the country climbed format following a trial in
sumer economy. grew at close to the fastest pace this year and open the retailer’s 21.9 per cent to Yn6.8 trillion New York. The US retailer plans
Shinsegae is to invest more in at least nine years as rising 70th store in the country in 2012 (£558.8 billion) against the to open three further stores
than Yn500 billion (£41.09 bil- incomes lift consumer spending. and the 100th in 2015. He is previous year. The figure is an by 2011, two of which will be
lion) in China over the next six According to China’s National also thought to want to increase improvement on the 16.8 per SoHo-style shops.
years to push its discount format, Bureau of Statistics, retail sales the number of E-Mart stores in cent rise for the whole of 2007.
Moonpig.com Foot-locker.co.uk
Moonpig.com is a great example Foot Locker is one major high
of a pure play e-tailer that street retailer that has work
offers a convenient alternative to do when it comes to its
to the high street in the online presence.
greetings card market. The first difficulty lies in
The product itself - finding the right web site for
personalised cards – is the UK customer, as the first
exceptional and reasonably page of Google results only
priced at about £3 for a gives you the US site. On the
standard-sized card, including US site I couldn’t find links
delivery. You can select from to the UK site and it requires
hundreds of cards, organised educated guesses to find
effectively around different the correct URL (www.foot-
occasions, and the purchasing locker.co.uk).
process is slick. When I eventually found it,
The site offers birthday the range of trainers offered
e-mail reminders – which are much more reliable than my memory. You can also store was unfulfilling. Furthermore, there was no delivery information on the product pages
addresses from previous orders – a great time saver. and the store finder didn’t tell me what the opening hours were for my nearest store.
Checkout is simple, e-mail confirmation is immediate and delivery is swift. Top marks. Lots of room for improvement.