FOR the longest time, the death knell has been sounded for the brick-and-mortar shop, as e-commerce took flight and it seemed like no one wanted to buy anything they couldn't get with the click of a mouse. But reports of the death of retail stores have been greatly exaggerated. In Friday's issue of BT Weekend magazine, three retail players show how they are reinventing the way we buy things.
If it's all about changing customers' attitudes towards shopping, changing your own attitude about life could help you be rich, says T Harv Eker, author of the 2005 bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. He shares the ways you could be sabotaging your own success, and what to do about it. Elsewhere in this issue, we take a walk through feudal Japan as we retrace part of the famous Tokaido route that served as the official highway between Edo and Kyoto, built by the shogunate of the 1600s. We look at how hotel restaurants are raising the bar on fine dining in Singapore; check out the new"black" trend in watches; and learn about an eco-friendly approach to home design.