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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.
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- Homegrown AI: Why owning the model isn't the point · 11 minIn this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Anchita break down why AI access is getting cheaper by the month, and why that’s not the advantage department stores think it…
- The price is personal: How algorithmic pricing is reshaping retail trust · 13 minIn this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya and Anchita break down why most retailers can't name the difference between dynamic, differential, and surveillance pricing — and…
- The Marks & Spencer comeback · 23 minIn 2022, Marks & Spencer’s share price stood at 130 pence. By 2026, it had nearly tripled to 350 pence 📈. The brand now ranks #1 in the UK for the second consecutive year. In…
- The four phases of art and the department store · 9 minArt in department stores goes back to 1875 — and the record has been continuous since.🎨 In this episode of IADS Retail Park, host Maya sits down with Selvane, Managing Director…
- When cultural brilliance and institutional weakness run in parallel · 11 minIn this episode of the IADS Retail Park 🎙️, Maya is joined by Anchita, to unpack Maya’s latest exclusive on the rise and fall of American Apparel 🧵. From a vertically integrated…
- FIFA World Cup 2026: What department stores are really playing for · 13 minThe sportswear is spoken for — Adidas, Nike and Puma kit 37 of 48 nations. So what does the FIFA World Cup 2026 offer department stores?⚽ Host Maya and Christine of IADS examine…
- Everlane & Shein: When opposites collide · 18 minEverlane sold to Shein for $100 million in May 2026 — a brand once valued at $550–600M, with $90M in debt and common shareholders left with nothing. Host Maya wrote this week's…
- Beyond the hype: How retailers are actually using the metaverse · 9 minIn this episode of The IADS Retail Park 🎧, Maya and Anchita explore the Metaverse beyond the buzz. ✨ What do Demain Beauty, L’Oréal, and luxury pioneers have in common? They’re…
- When nobody's watching: Why cultural belonging is replacing digital persuasion · 11 minIn 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…
- The layer nobody talks about — until It breaks · 8 minThey'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…
- The 2024 IADS Academy: AI Readiness for Department Stores · 10 minIn 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…
- 40,000 people, 1,000 exhibitors, and one question: Is any of this real? · 9 minEvery 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…
- How Boyner turned AI readiness into a 30% efficiency gain · 11 minZara 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…
- The $10 trillion management problem · 12 minIn 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…
- Two businesses, one store: Why omnichannel still hasn't solved its own architecture · 11 minDepartment stores have run two business models simultaneously for over fifteen years. The result is a financial architecture that punishes omnichannel behaviour from the inside…
- One door: How single-location department stores defy retail expansion logic · 14 minWhat 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…
- Can Printemps rewrite New York's luxury retail playbook from Wall Street? · 9 minZara 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…
- Why India's 45-day festival economy rewrites the retail playbook · 10 min45 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. 🪔…
- Hopi's Transformation: From Loyalty to FinTech Ecosystem · 12 min25 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…
- 2020 to 2026: How DEI became retail's legal minefield · 13 minTarget 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…
