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Shop Talk

1/4/2017

TRENDING STORES: Two Canadian brands are dropping anchor in the United States. Health and beauty retailer Saje Natural Wellness, which operates 45 locations up north, will open two stores in the Los Angeles area by year end. Another 25 stores are on tap for 2017. Featuring natural wellness, personal and home care products and accessories, Saje stores are open, light and airy, with a high level of design. The Saje store at Toronto’s Sherway Gardens features a 30-foot Italian tile façade. … Vancouver-based jeweler Spence Diamonds also has designs on the United States, and opened its first two U.S. stores in November — in Austin, Texas, and San Jose, Calif. Next up is an outpost in Scottsdale, Ariz. Spence specializes in “artisan created” diamonds that are made in a plasma chamber. Customers can watch as the diamonds are created right in front of their eyes. Also, jewelry is displayed in open cases and customers are free to take items out of the cases for try-on. JGA, Southfield, Mich., designed the brand’s first U.S. location. … The North Face’s new two-level, 20,000-sq.-ft. flagship on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue includes an interactive climbing wall and custom-embroidery service that allows shoppers to personalize product. Many of the store’s outfittings were created using the same materials as North Face products. The fitting rooms are made of the same fabric, nylon and aluminum poles used to make North Face tents. … AT&T opened its largest and most tech-centric store to date, below, a two-level, 24,000-sq.-ft. flagship in a historic building in San Francisco. The first floor showcases AT&T’s range of products and services. The entire second floor fashioned by Twenty Four 7, Portland, Ore., is designed as an interactive, tech playground that highlights connectivity through the Internet of Things (IoT), with six interactive “experience zones,” including ones dedicated to entertainment, the smart home and connected car. The floor is awash in state-of-the-art digital content, including intuitive UI and short 30- to 60-second animated vignettes.


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