Retail News Flash vom 15.11.2025

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Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots

Slovenian retailer Mass and financial investor Advance Capital Partners are acquiring Humanic's parent company

Leder & Schuh, based in Graz.

Closed opens again

Lidl - 300 new Shops

The US coffeehouse chain Starbucks has closed several locations in Austria. Stores in Salzburg, Linz, and Innsbruck have been permanently shut down.

Quester is insolvent

Unibail-Rodamco-Wesfield (URW) has acquired a 25% stake in St James Quarter in Edinburgh from Nuveen.

"The winners of the Mapic Awards 2025: In addition to long-standing honors, the jury recognized the best projects and brands of the past year in ten categories. Best New Store Concept: MINISO LAND, Shanghai, China MINISO LAND, the brand's first scenario-based flagship store, combines retail and play on 1,637 m². Best Renovation Project: El Boulevard, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Best New Development Project: Livat Shanghai, Ingka Centres, China Best Urban Renewal Project: Westfield Hamburg-Überseequartier, Germany The Brand and Project of the Last 30 Years Two additional special prizes went to Zara and the Westfield London shopping center. Most Wanted Retail Brand: Zara Most Wanted Food & Beverage: McDonald’s Most Wanted Leisure & Entertainment: Legoland Most Exciting Retail Brand: On "

Balls & Clubs is bringing its innovative indoor mini golf concept from Munich to Austria for the first time!

The Shopping Süd retail park is being built right next to the Seiersberg shopping center. "CC Real is opening Austria's largest indoor fun and leisure park in the Center West shopping center in Graz: the WOOP! Funpark, covering an area of 5,800 m² and representing an investment of over €5 million.

Shein opens store in Paris

Inditex has opened its new Zara flagship store in Las Vegas—in the shopping center “The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.”

The AI-cook

The second collection from the adidas Pet Collection features a mix of zip-up training jackets and down vests designed specifically for dogs and cats.

Links:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html

https://steiermark.orf.at/stories/3327489/?xing_share=news

https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/neues-kapitel-closed-startet-mit-neuen-eigentuemern-in-die-zukunft-17290?utmsource=%2Fmeta%2Fnewsletter%2Foetz&utmmedium=newsletter&utmcampaign=nl1003&utmterm=67923553e45a7a4c68c10e57027cae32

https://medianet.at/news/retail/lidl-schweiz-plant-ueber-100-neue-filialen-71308.html

https://www.kosmo.at/starbucks-schliesst-filialen-in-oesterreich/

https://wien.orf.at/stories/3328399/

https://news.completelyretail.co.uk/unibail-rodamco-westfield-buys-25-stake-in-edinburghs-st-james-quarter/

https://www.across-magazine.com/mapic-awards-2025/

https://www.textilzeitung.at/business/news/oetz-interview-direkt-neben-der-shoppingcity-shopping-sued-startet-2026-17242

https://www.across-magazine.com/cc-real-opens-austrias-largest-indoor-fun-and-leisure-park-woop-at-center-west-graz/

https://orf.at/stories/3410393/

https://fashionunited.ch/nachrichten/einzelhandel/einblicke-in-zaras-neuen-store-im-caesars-palace-in-las-vegas/2025101446761

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQFes-GjLwk/?igsh=NHNscG1md2l3dmxi

HI-Newsletter, 30.10.25

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