A guide to the next generation of retail businesses. Meet the innovators and entrepreneurs who run shops, and learn how you can too.

A new generation of founders and entrepreneurs are revolutionizing brick and mortar retail with innovative sales strategies and hybrid shop designs that leave nothing to chance. Curated by Courier magazine, The World's Best Shops is a guide to the best of modern shops, featuring profiles of some of the world's most diverse and inspiring retail spaces, briefings on big retail trends and opportunities, and more than 70 pages of practical advice and tips for anyone who's ever dreamed of setting up their own shop.

It is a refreshing view on thriving businesses that makes one thing clear: retail is alive and kicking, and reinventing itself in wonderful ways. Let's get selling!