This new Ikea store has zero parking spaces

Het retail landschap verandert constant, in Wenen opent IKEA een winkel in de stad.
A typical Ikea store comes with a sprawling parking lot—in Burbank, California, for example, the lot has room for 1,700 cars. But as the company works to shrink its carbon footprint, including the pollution from customers driving to suburban stores, it’s also rethinking parking. A new seven-store building that will house an Ikea store in central Vienna, now under construction, will have zero parking spaces.

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A new kind of Cocoon; Faith Popcorn

Trendgoeroe Faith Popcorn herdefinieert haar visie over wonen.
I’ve been obsessed with the concept of home since I coined the term Cocooning in 1981. But now this vital, grounding facet of daily life is detonating. Between the rise of Digital Nomadism and the Sharing Economy, the Death of the Office, the IoT and other hyper-disruptive forces, where and how we live is being completely reinvented. All this change has huge implications on how your business and brands must evolve. If you want to thrive in this new terrain, read my Future of Home digital report, and then let’s talk.

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Zeg het met Bloem

Een mooi voorbeeld van hoe een simpel product een verhaal vertelt.
Located in Vancouver, Flourist is a stunning retail bakery and flour mill working to help ensure farming remains a family business in Canada. Owners and founders Janna Bishop and Shira McDermott first founded Grains in 2014 as Vancouver’s first and only artisan flour mill and as Canada’s only source of 100-per-cent traceable grains, beans and freshly milled flours.

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