SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group, which operates high-end department stores throughout the nation, announced that it is launching a new smartphone app that will allow shoppers to check, in real-time, the wait time at restaurants situated within Shinsegae malls. Through the service, which launched at Shinsegae’s Gangnam branch yesterday and will roll [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Everyday Inc., retail giant Shinsegae’s supermarket chain operator, said Thursday it will open a “cashier-less” store in Seoul this week in its latest effort to secure competitiveness through the use of new technologies. The 212-square-meter store in Gangnam, southern Seoul, will open Friday after remodeling to allow customers [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Shinsegae DF Inc., the duty-free arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, opened its second outlet in Seoul on Wednesday, as the company accelerates its push to expand its presence in the domestic duty-free market. The five-story outlet with some 350 brands is located at Central City, which consists [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Chosun Hotel, the accommodation arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, said Tuesday it plans to open a new boutique hotel in Seoul this week, marking the first time that the business group will operate an independent hotel brand. Hotel L’Escape, located next to Shinsegae’s main department store [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group Vice Chairman Chung Yong-jin appears to have stepped up foreign market research ahead of the retailer’s launch of a premium grocery store in the United States next year. According to posts of Chung’s Instagram account, he appeared to have visited a food exhibition in the Netherlands last [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Red ginseng was the most popular product among Chinese shoppers at Korea’s airport duty-free shops, according to a survey by Shinsegae Duty Free’s Incheon Airport branch. In addition, Japanese visitors favored dried laver products, while Southeast Asian tourists said they liked “Honey Butter Almond” products the most. According to [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc., a major discount chain operator under South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, revealed an autonomous shopping cart for a test run on Tuesday, as the company moves to secure the competitiveness of its offline distribution channels. Dubbed eli, two of the carts will be showcased at the firm’s [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The vice chairman of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group on Thursday revealed an autonomous shopping cart under development as the company moves to secure competitiveness of its offline distribution channels. Dubbed eli, it would be the world’s first autonomous cart, Chung Yong-jin said in a post on his Instagram account that included a clip showcasing the cart’s key [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group will build a massive online center for its new affiliate dedicated to the e-commerce business, its vice president said Wednesday, as the retail giant moves to cope with the rapid expansion of the country’s online market. In January, Shinsegae announced that it has signed an initial agreement [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the government’s move to shorten legal working hours, an increasing number of South Korean retailers are expected to help employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. The Environment & Labor Committee at the National Assembly passed a reform bill today that prohibits employees from working more than 52 hours in [...]