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Places to Shop: Tokyo CULTuArt Store by Beams

As the economy creeps along, surviving retailers are more clever and diverse in their offerings. There’s an increasing number of boutiques outlining their business strategy around people’s sensibilities instead of a single categorical need for the consumer. We love this. It’s interesting watching the best retailers adapt and change their strategies based on a smarter more curious consumer. Our favorite example of this is Beams’ CULTuART store in Tokyo.

Retail strategy and intelligence site, RR, reports on Beam’s latest endeavor: “According to Nagai (CULTuART’s manager), the shop is an aggregator of urban Tokyo, bringing its many faces and artists into one place that acts as both retail outlet and museum. Prices can range from the $150 Peloqoon stuffed figures by Modoka Morikawa to $7000 for Pucci’s one-of-a-kind Doraemon stained-glass lamp. Beams has plans to open more CULTuART shops in other cities around the globe bringing the best of Tokyo to a wider audience.” Click Read More for additional information and photos.