Whilst the pandemic has accelerated the demise of mid market legacy department stores, a new breed of mission-driven retailers is emerging from the ashes, offering new shopping spaces, underpinned by expert curation and unique creativity. 

Censuum bills itself as the ‘department store of the future’, which champions and plays host to socially responsible brands across food, fashion and home. These are new to market and looking to break into retail. 

The brainchild of Danish entrepreneurs Dion Guldbjerg and Dennis Eriksen, they now have two brand new Censuum stores in the Copenhagen area, which combine immaculate industrial Danish design, with lovely creative merchandising and interactive product storytelling. 

Every brand featured has to be socially responsible, moving beyond environmental sustainability to wider ethical issues. 

Source: Matthew Brown https://echochamber.com/  

The author of the text and the creator of Retail safari concept, Matthew Brown is the owner and founder of Echochamber, based in London, a creative retail trend agency with a global reach. Echochamber tracks global trends, advises clients and best practices in customer experience, store design, consumer trends and of course, innovative technology. Matthew travels the world tracking retail innovation and evolving consumer trends.  

Echochamber provides global best practices and creative insight to clients across all retail sectors, in order to help them benchmark best practice and improve their businesses, by harnessing evolving global consumer and retail trends.