Malls Thread

[Monseratto]

Soon to open in SM North EDSA...

[holdencaulfield]

lahat na lang esem, ayala, blah blah blah.

wala na bang magkukuwento ng ever gotesco, star mall, manuela, isettan, plaza fair, ali mall?

[_Qwerty_]

pinasok na din nang Jollibee ang malls.. magtatayo sila CityMall yata ang name..

[Ry_Tower]

pinasok na din nang Jollibee ang malls.. magtatayo sila CityMall yata ang name..

ilan kaya stores nila dun....

[Walter]

pinasok na din nang Jollibee ang malls.. magtatayo sila CityMall yata ang name..

Double Dragon Properties, joint venture with former owner if Mang Inasal.

[asb75]

Malapit nang magbukas ang bagong Robinsons Place Antipolo City
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[asb75]

Soft Opening of Robinsons Antipolo

[JohnM]

Double Dragon Properties, joint venture with former owner if Mang Inasal.

IIRC Double Dragon ang bagong construction sa kanto EDSA/Roxas Blvd across Toyota Manila Bay.

[asb75]

Some other photos
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[_Cathy_]

I like the SSI building in high street. Amoy US and all the staff are extra polite

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[machinepistol]

I like the SSI building in high street. Amoy US and all the staff are extra polite

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Come to think of it . . . Totoo nga talaga may places na "amoy US." Para bang you know it when you smell it 🎄

[Monseratto]

Is Pottery Barn also operated by Store Specialist? Every store in this mall seems to be by Store Specialist Inc...

[_Qwerty_]

yes partner nila SSI..

In partnership with the Philippines’ leading specialty store retailer Stores Specialists Inc., Pottery Barn Philippines brings the same values of the Pottery Barn brand, where home furnishings are exceptional in comfort, quality, style, and value.

[_Cathy_]

Come to think of it . . . Totoo nga talaga may places na "amoy US." Para bang you know it when you smell it ��

Yup! That was the first thing I noticed in this mall!

Is Pottery Barn also operated by Store Specialist? Every store in this mall seems to be by Store Specialist Inc...

yes partner nila SSI..

Yes. I think all the stores there are SSI. It's called the SSI building e.

[jonski]

Mas gusto ko mag shopping sa mga outletmalls like yung sa Paseo de Sta.Rosa.

[Monseratto]

Yes. I think all the stores there are SSI. It's called the SSI building e.

First time kasi umabot kami sa building na yun. Was suprised to see OLD NAVY occupying the old spot GAP and MUJI...

Who controls the retail business...

Old Navy next week, H&M in August–battle of brands accelerates even more in 2014

The battle of the brands and local retailers goes full speed in 2014 with new labels, stores and malls being unveiled within weeks of each other, in a scale that this town hasn’t seen in years.

It has been weeks since photos of that soon-to-open H&M space at SM Megamall began popping up on social media. The consumer excitement over the Swedish newcomer can be likened only to Uniqlo’s entry into the country nearly two years ago, where shelves and racks of the Japanese import were emptied within days of opening.

If the competitions are quaking in their high-street boots, they certainly aren’t showing, as all are too busy also unveiling new brands that are poised if not to rival the fast-fashion behemoth, then at least to wangle their share from the pockets of the seemingly flush fast-rising middle class.

Bigger market

“If an international brand succeeds, the entire market gets bigger, right? So, no,” was Anton T. Huang’s answer when asked if he feels the threat of H&M to Stores Specialists Inc.’s roster of high-street brands that include Zara, Aeropostale, Bershka.

“In all other countries today, Zara, Marks & Spencer, they all coexist with H&M and vice versa. H&M, Uniqlo and Old Navy in the US coexist. The aesthetics are very different, so it depends on what you’re looking for. I’m extremely excited for the prospects of Old Navy here. The pricing is great. Brand awareness is fabulous,” added SSI’s executive vice president.

In Cebu, SSI also just opened F&F, an affordable clothing line from the United Kingdom, before it even launched in Manila.

SUYEN Corp. (Bench Group) has kept its homegrown labels thriving even as it actively brings in global franchises, like Denmark’s Vero Moda (pictured), which opened recently.

SSI is set to open the first of three Old Navy stores on March 22 in the three-level structure at Bonifacio High Street that used to house Gap and Muji, both SSI brands that are moving to BHS Central, adjacent to SSI’s soon-to-open Central Square, a retail destination that Huang refuses to call a mall “because it’s not big enough to be one.”

“We weren’t really looking into doing this,” he said of SSI’s decision to build its own retail edifice. “We were happy being tenants. It just happened that there was this plot of land that became available, which was part of the BHS Central and a retail zone area, part of that center-of-the-universe area, in the middle of BGC. We felt it was too good an opportunity to pass up in terms of location.”

Central Square, he clarified, isn’t going up against SM’s upmarket mall, SM Aura Premier, which is also in the vicinity. “We’re not big enough,” he said.

Central Square, according to Huang, will house the Ayala Cinemas on the top floor, Marketplace by Rustan’s Supermarkets on the basement, and Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids’ first outposts in the country, brought in by SSI.

(Pottery Barn will go head to head with Crate & Barrel, which will open in SM Megamall, via the SM group. Next year, SSI will also open the outlets for the other Williams-Sonoma brands.)

Central Square will also have the flagships of Marks & Spencer and Michael Kors, and new brands like the Kate Middleton favorite Reiss, Isaac Mizrahi, Spain’s Cortefiel, all SSI imports.

SSI is also growing its luxury-brands roster, with the opening of Alexander McQueen, Saint Laurent, Givenchy and Giuseppe Zanotti in Shangri-La Plaza Mall’s new East Wing.

Consumer base

In SM Megamall’s new Mega Fashion Hall, SSI will unveil its two-level Zara store, and another Inditex brand, Pull & Bear, its first in the country.

“There are so many things happening in the retail industry today that hasn’t happened in many, many years,” Huang noted. “This is all part and parcel of the fact that the Philippine market as a whole is growing, not only in terms of number and disposable income, but even from a demographic standpoint.

“The key demographic, the consumer base, is growing in a very, very fast pace. There are a lot of opportunities. As they say, we’re a consumer-led economy, and that’s the truth of the matter. So a lot of people want to get into the market. For us, it’s a very exciting time. This is allowing us to expand as well. And there’s more opportunity to expand because there are more real-estate developments that are coming up.”

In recent months, SSI itself has diversified into F&B and convenience-store retailing, adding Singapore’s TWG and Japan’s Family Mart to its brand portfolio.

“I think expanding into Family Mart, which also caters to that growing market, made sense,” Huang said. “It wasn’t something that’s out of left field. It was part of being a specialty store retailer.”

He also disclosed that SSI had partnered with Ayala Malls to develop a department store called Wellworth, aimed at that market “between Rustan’s and SM,” and will be at all the new Ayala Malls, the first of which will open on March 28 at the just-launched Fairview Terraces.

Huang pooh-poohed speculations that SSI held off its luxury brands from SM Aura as the company purportedly has an implicit agreement with Ayala Malls—an SM competitor—to keep the prestige brands exclusive to the Ayalas.

“We decide where we open based on catchment area, and looking at the Makati City area plus BGC, they’re very close to each other and are basically trading in the same catchment area,” he said.

“With Greenbelt being the luxury-shopping destination—with Hermes there, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, Gucci, Prada, etc.—it didn’t make sense to us to open another location nearby. That’s solely the reason. When you do luxury retailing, your whole development should be solely luxury. You can’t have luxury brands next to high-street brands. Everything just has to be luxury and that’s what we’ve done in Greenbelt.”

In fact, Huang added, Ayala had also asked SSI for luxury brands in BGC. “But it’s just too close to Greenbelt.”

Even the labels that are to open in Shangri-La Plaza will not cross over to Makati or BGC, he said, save for Givenchy, which will take over Emporio Armani’s space in Greenbelt 4.

Predicting and adapting to consumer appetites and yearnings look to be the driving force behind the onslaught of new brands, and none of the key retail players are blinking.

“Retail is always dynamic, and we always have to be open to new ideas and change,” Dizon said. “That is our DNA, and with that, we always renovate and innovate to meet the ever-changing needs of the market.”

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[chrismarte]

Double Dragon Properties, joint venture with former owner if Mang Inasal.

magtatayo sila ng mall sa sa Kalibo, malapit sa airport.

[zxcvbn]

Nako magbubukas na H&M sa Megamall sa October 17. Traffic na naman lalo.

[cast_no_shadow]

Dapat sa badtrip thread ko ipost ito pero usapang mall kaya dito na lang.

I've lost it kanina while asa grocery sa SM Megamall. I bought few stuff. Nung magbabayad na ako naghanap ako ng mapipilahan na mabilis. Then asa cashier na nga ako, 5 asa harapan ko lahat kami konti lang binili kaya tanaw at dinig mo yung transaction.

Of all the 4 pax infront of me, lahat hindi sinuklian ng tama ng cashier, yung mga butal na sentimo hindi binibigay.

Puro okay lang po ba kulang ng **cents?

Lahat hinayaan na ok lang.

Then i told myself na sana may butal na sentimo din sukli ko.

And ako na nga, jackpot!

Cashier: sir okay lang ba kulang po ng 75 cents?

Sagot ko, aba miss sa ilan minuto nakarami ka ng sentimo ah? Gabi na wala pa din barya? Kung kulang kaya pera ko pambayad papayag ka?

Ayan na si pasensya na sir wala na po akong barya.

What pissed me lalo eh humingi siya ng piso sa kabilang kahera to give me, 2 minutes na hindi siya pinapansin nung isa.

Nilayasan ko na dumiretso ako dun sa customer service section katapat. I talked to the OIC yung may sash na yellow.

Sabi ko ano ba SOP niyo? Gabi na wala pa din barya panukli mga kahera? To think may banko kayo (BDO!)

Ay sir pasensya na po, hindi po nagrerequest ng coins yung kahera.

Sabi ko yun nga mag problema eh? Call ko pa ba na maghanda siya ng barya? Hindi ba best practice na dapat complete panukli kada transaction? Nakarami ng customer na kulang ang sukli. Maling mali! Pumarehas naman kayo.

Putaragis talaga! Inutil din yung OIC ng customer service nila nilayasan ko din. Binibigay lang din yun kulang saken. Actually i dont know ano ba talaga gusto ko, ang akin lang ipaalam sa kanila yung kabulastugan nila.

Sabi ni esmi hindi ka nahihiya umeksena ka dun? Sabi ko hinde!!


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[shadow]

^hinde rin ako pumapayag sa ganyan lalo na sa SM group of companies. Doon yata kukunin bonus ng mga NU players sa mga butal na hinde nila binibigay


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