In a Berlin museum recently, I came across an important and poignant installation; images of a department store from the great days of German retailing. The pictures celebrated a time long past when huge “palaces of consumption” selling a vast variety of products dominated Berlin’s retail sector. The buildings were grand, magnificent and opulent and were rightly recognised as architectural works of art. Today those same stores are relics of the past as an online revolution threatens to bring down the citadels of shopping pleasure. Galeria-Kaufhof-Karstadt,  a chain of department stores founded in 2019 following the fusion between Galeria-Kaufhof and…

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