Paris's department stores transformed urban life. What can they teach today's struggling shops?
Briefly

On the top floor of the fabled La Samaritaine department store in Paris, an empty row of champagne-branded deckchairs...The only thing missing from this temple of modern shopping? Customers.
Three years since the store reopened, however, it seems to be struggling to entice shoppers... And it's not alone: department stores across the world are facing ever lower footfall, with many forced to close and take on new lives as co-working spaces, libraries, flats and offices.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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