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A Surf Shop Inside A Submarine Sounds Like A Dream

4:00AM June 19, 2011 | Kwame Opam

John McCambridge is a surfer. He’s also an artist, and is one of the minds behind the Mollusk Surf Shop in San Francisco, Venice Beach, and Brooklyn. His latest venture is “Mollusk at Voyager.” Basically, it’s a submarine. More »


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Pave Bicycle Store Blurs The Line Between Art Gallery And Retail Location

6:00AM May 15, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Javier Maya’s Pave bicycle store in Barcelona is, at first glance, an art gallery for cycling buffs. The walls are all backlit, the lines incredibly clean. The thing is, everything’s for sale. More »


Who Knew HTC Had Physical Stores?

8:13PM August 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Nokia couldn’t sustain retail stores for long, but seemingly HTC hasn’t faced the same problem just yet – did anyone know they had stores open in Russia and the Czech Republic? More »


Apple’s Next Apple Store Is Castle Hill, Opens Thursday Night

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12:30PM August 16, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Planning a little bit of late-night shopping this Thursday over at Castle Hill Towers in Sydney? Then prepare yourself for some chanting, riotous applause and other significant uncommon retail behaviour, as Apple is planning on opening its latest store at 5pm Thursday afternoon. More »


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You wanna return that? Give us a cookie.

2:20AM August 11, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

This weekend I bought new headphones for my iPhone at Mikey’s Hook Up, a computer store in Williamsburg, NY. Everything was good until I saw their absolutely outrageous returns policy in their receipt. More »


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Circuit City Continues Death Spiral, Really Wants You to Stop Calling It ‘Circuit Shitty’

2:30AM September 30, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

Spurred by its latest quarter of dismal failure—a net loss of $US239.2 million—Circuit City has instigated a “comprehensive analysis of its business,” which will “start with improving the customer experience in our stores,” says new mayor James Marcum. (For comparison, a hard hit for Best Buy this quarter was a $US202 million profit.)

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