Bicester Village (Value Retail) approach to the Christmas season and to the customer journey year-round, serves as a learning model for retailers aiming to create a memorable experience that resonates ...

It’s a bright but perilously cold February day in England and I’m shivering at the back of an orderly queue made up predominantly of Chinese tourists. A security guard is keeping an eye on the crowd ...

My first visit to Bicester Village, a luxury shopping outlet near Oxford, was 20 years ago, not long after the village opened in April 1995, with 13 boutiques and one café. Next year the retail ...

Bicester Village is evolving in new and surprising ways. For a number of years, the shopping village near Oxford has looked at the broader picture of luxury discount shopping, moving this concept ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. Chinese tourists can now use the Alipay mobile wallet app to make ...

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll likely remember the iconic Kate Moss in equally-iconic ads for the beauty brand Rimmel, staring into the camera with her kohl-lined eyes prompting viewers to ‘Get ...

A jewellery brand has opened its first outlet pop-up shop at a designer shopping village in Oxfordshire. Missoma, which offers permanent bracelets, opened the store in Bicester Village last week. It ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when Bicester Village wasn’t a fixture on the British luxury shopping map. Yet, on a spring morning in 1995, the ribbon was cut on a bold new concept: an open-air ...

A luxury skincare brand has opened its first-ever outlet store at a designer shopping village in Oxfordshire. Aesop, renowned for its cult-favourite apothecary-style sink condiments, has opened its ...

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