A shop with a till and a website can either run as two businesses that happen to share a name, or as one business with two doors. The retailers below are the second kind. Each sells through a Shopify online store and also runs physical shops under its own name, and each one’s website does some of the work of getting people through those doors: a store finder that is easy to reach, collection from a chosen branch, a stock check by postcode, a booking for a fitting or a factory tour. This list has 21 of them, seven per country across America, Britain and Australia, checked on 20 October 2026 and spread across homewares, books and stationery, kitchen and food, eyewear, music, bikes, art and craft, hobbies and gardening. To qualify, a retailer’s homepage had to serve Shopify’s storefront code, and its own website had to list at least one shop under its own name; we kept that page and the number of shops it showed. For each one we also captured the homepage at desktop and phone width with the local country and currency set, priced its whole public catalogue, listed which apps its homepage source loads, and measured how quickly it drew on a deliberately slow phone.
What these 21 retailers do the same way
- The store page sells a service, not just an address. Parachute offers a free design consultation at each of its six stores, Krewe notes prescription-lens services at ten of its 18 shops, Cubitts eye exams and repairs, Temple Cycles test rides by appointment, Heath Ceramics factory tours, and Milligram and Eckersley’s workshops held in store.
- Collection is spelled out, and sometimes it is the only option. Lakeland offers “Free click & collect” on product pages, Paxton & Whitfield free collection from all four shops, Parachute in-store pickup at all six, and Temple Cycles and Loop London click and collect. Paxton & Whitfield sells some cheeses for in-store collection only, and Sage x Clare runs a showroom that opens only for collection orders.
- Product pages point to the nearest shop. Krewe lists every store under a frame so you can try it on before it ships, Eckersley’s has a Find In Store box that takes a postcode, 99 Bikes shows stock by size at the branch you chose, and Chicago Music Exchange asks players to call and see a guitar in its showroom.
- Some channels still keep separate books. Di Bruno Bros. and Burford Garden Co. sell one gift card for the shops and another for the website, Di Bruno’s sign-up discount is “Valid online only”, and Hobbyco tags its deals “In-Store” or “Online”. Rad Power Bikes goes the other way, with one hero offer for spending “online or in store”.
- From one shop to 75. Six of the 21 list a single shop or showroom (Chicago Music Exchange, Persephone Books, Loop London, Burford Garden Co., Maggie Beer and Sage x Clare), and for them the website sells the trip, with opening hours, directions and what to expect. At the other end, 99 Bikes lists 75 branches, Lakeland 57 and Eckersley’s 27, and their sites route each shopper to one branch. Together the 21 list 251 shops on their own sites.
- Klaviyo leads the app stack. Fourteen of the 21 homepages load Klaviyo and ten load Gorgias; five offer Afterpay, four of them in Australia. Persephone Books showed no review, chat or email app at all.
- The typical homepage needed 6.7 seconds on a slow phone. That is the median time to main content across the 21 on our throttled test handset, for pages of about 4.7 MB. Sage x Clare (2.6 seconds), The Diggers Club (2.6 seconds) and Eckersley’s (3.8 seconds) were quickest; four needed more than 20 seconds, and Chicago Music Exchange was slowest at 30.7 seconds. The Diggers Club sent the heaviest homepage (10.8 MB) and Persephone Books the lightest (1.7 MB). By country, the middle American store took 8.7 seconds, the British 14.5 seconds and the Australian 4.7 seconds.
United States
Krewe
The eyewear brand lists its French Quarter flagship in New Orleans first and gives Stores one of the five slots in its menu, next to Sun, Optical, Events and About Us. The hero sold a late run of sunglasses, “Sun Season, The Encore”, with the line “The forecast still calls for sunglasses. Good thing we made more.”, and the top bar rotated free two-day shipping on frame orders, 30-day returns and “TURN YOUR FSA DOLLARS INTO NEW FRAMES”. Its store page names 18 shops from New York to Denver, ten of them noting “Rx lens services are available”. The product page goes a step further: below the frame it lists every shop with a “TRY-ON ONLY” note, inviting you to try the pair on in person while Krewe ships the order free in two days. A typical frame costs $335 across 409 products ($40 for a wine tote to $455), and Afterpay, Klarna, Yotpo, Trustpilot, Klaviyo, Attentive and Nosto load. No American store was quicker: its main content was on screen after 4.9 seconds of throttled loading.
Do this next: put the shop list on the product page. Someone who wants to try a frame before paying can see the nearest counter without leaving the pair they picked. Browse krewe.com
Parachute
The bedding and bath brand keeps its homepage almost wordless: “First Look at Fall” over stacks of knitted throws, a “Shop Fall Layers” button, and a black top bar promising free shipping on every order and 60-day returns. A map-pin icon sits beside search, and the store locator reads “6 Stores”, from Silver Lake and Venice to Seattle and SoHo. Every one is marked “In Store pickup available” and carries a link to “Book a Complimentary Design Consultation”, and product pages add that returns can go back by mail, in store or at a Happy Returns Bar. Its 1,596 products are typically $249, from $9 towels on final sale to a $2,850 mattress, with fabric swatches left out; Klaviyo, Gorgias and Rebuy load. Its homepage made 418 requests, more than any other here, and took 8.7 seconds to draw its main content on our slowed phone.
Do this next: attach a service to each shop, not just an address. A free design consultation gives someone browsing bedding online a reason to book a visit. Browse parachutehome.com
Heath Ceramics
The California pottery and tile maker, whose Sausalito showroom is billed as “The original, since 1959”, opens with “In a New Light: The Winter Collection is Here” over a laid table. Its top bar was promoting “Pass the Plate In Person”, running October 16–25, and a utility row carries Registry and Trade links, while Tile has its own place in the main menu. Visit Us counts six locations, from the Sausalito and San Francisco factories with showrooms to an Austin outpost inside a café, and a Factory Tours & Workshops entry books dinnerware and tile factory tours through Eventbrite. Leaving out 138 tile samples and two gift cards, its 2,386 products are typically $100, from $1.80 jar lids to $15,000; Junip and Klaviyo load.
Do this next: sell the visit itself. A factory tour booked online brings a customer to the place where the brand makes its best case. Browse heathceramics.com
Fishs Eddy
The New York dinnerware shop keeps things playful: a checkered badge for a logo, “Fresh From the Fall Market” in heavy type, and a promise of harvest colours with “No early morning trip required.” In the corner, a shopping assistant offered three starter questions, among them “Which dinnerware set fits everyday use?”. Its Locations page describes three shops: the Union Square flagship at 19th and Broadway, which it calls “the mothership”, a DUMBO shop now selling coffee too, and a third in Chelsea Market. A Gift Registry sits in the menu and free shipping starts at $150. The 358 products run from $4 to $79, typically $18, and Afterpay, Klarna, Trustpilot, Klaviyo and Gorgias load.
Do this next: give each shop one line of personality on the locations page. Calling the flagship “the mothership” tells a tourist which of the three is worth the trip. Browse fishseddy.com
Di Bruno Bros.
The Philadelphia cheese and specialty-food shop calls itself “Philadelphia’s Culinary Pioneer.” and promises experiences “From our historic Italian Market to doorsteps nationwide”. The menu goes from Gifting and Cheese to Events, Catering and Stores, a burgundy band offered 15% off snacks with the code FALLFOR15, and the top bar links Corporate Gifting, Monthly Clubs and Find a Store. Its locator lists three shops: Rittenhouse Square, the Italian Market storefront that opened in 1939, and a bottle shop on the same street; the Stores menu also sends locals to Instacart and DoorDash. Gift cards come in two versions, one “Only Valid in Stores” and one “Not Valid in Stores”. The typical item costs $69.99 across 380 products, up to $5,600 for fresh white truffles, and Trustpilot, Klaviyo, Gorgias, Boost, Rebuy and Recharge load.
Do this next: merge the gift cards. Two cards that each work in only one channel tell the customer that the shops and the site are separate businesses. Browse dibruno.com
Chicago Music Exchange
The Chicago guitar shop led with Fender’s new American Professional series under an orange bar offering $20 off for joining its text list. Sell & Trade and The Vault get their own menu slots beside categories, brands and deals, and on the phone a row of pills jumps to New Arrivals and Vintage & Used. There is one showroom, and the site keeps steering players to it: the top bar says “Visit Our Showroom Today!”, the footer gives its hours (closed Mondays), and a used guitar’s page says “Chat or call us to view this item in our showroom!” and mentions the “Lincoln Avenue showroom”. Its feed stops at 25,000 listings; those have a $879.98 median, from a $0.50 bridge spring to a $99,995 1959 Gibson ES-335. Stamped, Klaviyo, Gorgias, Tidio and Searchspring load. It was the slowest store we timed: 30.7 seconds passed before the main content appeared on our throttled phone.
Do this next: offer a viewing on one-off items. For a vintage guitar, an invitation to come and play it does more than another photo. Browse chicagomusicexchange.com
Rad Power Bikes
The e-bike maker’s hero, “Get Your Rad Ride Ready for Fall”, wraps both channels into one offer: a free roadside repair kit “when you spend $150 online or in store”, plus 20% off tune-ups at its Rad Retail locations, which the yellow top bar repeated with a Find a Store link. A row under the hero counts “1,400+ Local Bike Shop Partners” for test rides and servicing, and the menu adds Take a Test Ride and Rad Service pages. Its store page lists seven RadRetail locations, from Berkeley to Seattle. Of 145 products in its feed, the eight e-bikes cost $1,499 to $2,399; parts and accessories bring the overall median down to $55. Yotpo and Klaviyo load.
Do this next: write one promotion for both channels. “Online or in store” in the hero stops shoppers wondering which one gets the better deal. Browse radpowerbikes.com
United Kingdom
Persephone Books
The Bath publisher and bookseller, which says it “reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction, mostly by women writers and mostly dating from the mid-twentieth century”, has a plain homepage: a phone number top right, a slider for its monthly Persephone Letter, and a welcome paragraph beside a photo of grey-jacketed books on the shop’s shelves, with an Our Shop section below. The Our Shop page places it at 8 Edgar Buildings, open six days a week, and a news item says a second Persephone bookshop opens this autumn in Fitzrovia, London. Shop events are sold online like books: a film screening, a launch, a talk and an endpapers workshop were in its feed. Its 216 products cost £2.50 to £85, typically £18, and no review, chat or email app showed in the homepage code. The page was also the lightest of the 21 (1.7 MB from 104 requests, the fewest) and drew its main content in 4.9 seconds on our slowed phone.
Do this next: sell your shop events through the online checkout. A ticket bought on the site puts a reader in the shop on a date you chose. Browse persephonebooks.co.uk
Lakeland
The kitchen and home retailer led with a heated airer under “The UK’s # 1 Heated Airer”, backed by “Spend Smarter: 88% cheaper to run than a tumble dryer.” and “Which? Best Buy for three years running.” Its utility bar holds Help, Find a store and myLakeland, the loyalty scheme, while the phone version’s announcement switched to a “3 year guarantee”. The store locator lists 57 Lakeland shops plus a café in Windermere, with a note that a new store has opened in St Albans, and product pages offer “Free click & collect” next to home delivery. Its 11,583 products make the largest catalogue here that we could read in full; the typical item is £9.99, from £0.25 to £3,800 for a pizza-oven bundle. Yotpo and Algolia load, and the footer asks shoppers to download its app for myLakeland vouchers.
Do this next: keep the store finder next to the loyalty login. Members who collect vouchers online are the customers most likely to spend them in a shop. Browse lakeland.co.uk
Paxton & Whitfield
The cheesemonger, whose logo reads London Cheesemongers, Est. 1797, offers free named-day delivery over £45, and its hero had turned to an Autumnal Collection with 10% off (code AUTUMN10); on the phone it showed the cheese advent calendar instead. Its Our Shops page names “four cheese shops in London, Bath and Canterbury”, and click and collect is free at all of them: order one day, collect from 11am the next day the shop is open. Some cheeses are sold for collection only, and the page for an unpasteurised Bleu d’Auvergne says “This product is available for in-store collection only!”. Leaving out tastings, Academy of Cheese courses and cheese-club plans, its 223 products cost £3 to £500, typically £23.95; Yotpo, Klaviyo and Recharge load. On our slowed phone it needed 26.1 seconds to draw its main content, the second-longest wait of the 21.
Do this next: if a product cannot go in the post, sell it for collection rather than hide it. The unpasteurised cheese keeps its product page and still takes orders. Browse paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
Cubitts
The spectacle maker writes its top bar the way it sizes frames: “Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.”, followed by “9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We’re working on the other 0.5.” The menu is just Shop, Discover and Visit, and the homepage was two big images, a frame hinge on plum and a crowded collage of people and red-brick buildings; the phone captioned the first “A Golden Age”, spectacles drawn from the late 1920s. The header links “Book an eye exam” and “Find a store”, and its store pages cover 18 shops in Britain, from Brighton to Edinburgh, plus two in New York, offering “frame fitting, eye exams, repairs, and bespoke services”. Frames are typically £175 across 432 products (£10 to £675 for bespoke), and Klaviyo and Gorgias load.
Do this next: make the eye exam bookable from the header. For glasses the appointment is where the sale starts, and Cubitts keeps that link one click from every page. Browse cubitts.com
Loop London
The Islington yarn shop was marking an anniversary, “Celebrating 20 Years of Loop Knitting!”, over scarves and a shawl hung on pegs, with a collection to match. Its menu runs to 15 items, Classes, Events and Visit Us among them, and a Rewards tab sits bottom right. The Visit Us page gives the one shop at 15 Camden Passage and explains that click-and-collect orders wait for a dispatch email; it also says the shop is cashless, offers 10% off to NHS workers in store and to students, and lists the languages its staff speak, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Chinese. With 29 classes and workshops set aside, its 1,561 products are typically £9.95, from £0.10 toy eyes to a £730 Julie Arkell piece; Klaviyo loads.
Do this next: put your staff’s languages on the visit page. Telling tourists that someone speaks Spanish or Chinese turns an overseas browser into a shop visit. Browse loopknitting.com
Temple Cycles
The bike maker had more demand than stock: its green top bar said “NEW BIKE ORDERS ARE NOW CLOSED DUE TO HIGH DEMAND” and pointed to an outlet, while the hero ran an end-of-season sale of up to 30% off. A second bar carries Visit Us, Events and Cycle to Work links beside a United Kingdom (GB £) switcher, and the menu ends with Help Me Choose. Its stores page lists two showrooms, in Bristol and on Brick Lane in London (the latter also a servicing centre), each with a Book Appointment button and a note that test riders leave photo ID or a bank card as security; product pages offer click and collect from its stores. Across 134 products, prices run from £5 decals to the £3,495 Road 1, typically £595; Loox, Klaviyo and Gorgias load.
Do this next: when you cannot take new orders, say so at the top and point to stock you can still sell. The outlet link keeps the visit from ending on a sold-out page. Browse templecycles.com
Burford Garden Co.
The Oxfordshire garden centre opens on a wall of turning leaves, “A new season of colour” over “Explore the autumn garden”, with an Autumn at Burford section below. The header is pared back to a basket, a menu and search; the menu itself runs from gardening and plants to interiors, food and drink, clothing, books and art, the “curated mixture” its Visiting Us page promises at its one store on Shilton Road, open seven days a week. That page answers practical questions before the drive: wheelchairs, dogs, cash (not accepted), loos and coach parties. Gift cards are split into In Store Gift Cards and Online E-Gift Cards. Its 6,063 products run from £1.50 staples to an £8,995 sauna, typically £26, and Klaviyo and Rise.ai load.
Do this next: if people come for a day out, plan the day for them. A visiting page with the dog, cash and café answers saves a phone call and a wasted trip. Browse burford.co.uk
Australia
Milligram
The stationery chain led with a restock, “Traveler’s Co 20th Anniversary”, under a bar offering three Any Day Now notebooks for the price of two. A map pin sits in the header at both screen sizes, and the Our Stores page lists 11 shops across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane, with Byron Bay “Coming Soon!”. The same page sells the stores as places to learn, with in-store workshops and masterclasses from goal setting to travel journaling, and says they have won awards from Melbourne Design Awards, Australian Interior Awards and DrivenxDesign. Its 2,895 products are typically A$29.99, from A$1 reduced gift bags to a A$529 fountain pen; Afterpay, Okendo, Yotpo, Reviews.io, Gorgias and Yotpo Loyalty load.
Do this next: give the shops something the website cannot do. A journaling workshop turns a stationery browse into a booked evening in store. Browse milligram.com
Eckersley’s
The art-supply chain’s page title is “Art & Craft Supplies In Store & Online”, and the site keeps both halves in view: a Stores icon beside Rewards in the header, a black top bar inviting people to join its Creative Rewards program, and a stores page headed “Visit one of our 27 stores across Australia”. The hero sold Liquitex Professional Heavy Body Acrylic Paints at up to 20% off, over a strip claiming “Over 20,000 Products” and “Over 60 Years of Expertise”. Product pages carry a “Find In Store” box that takes a postcode or suburb, and the homepage advertises art and craft workshops “In a store near you”. Its public feed held 4,456 products, typically A$16.95, from A$0.25 spray nozzles to A$9,900; Yotpo loads.
Do this next: put the shop stock check on the product page. A painter who needs one tube today will drive to the branch that has it. Browse eckersleys.com.au
Hobbyco
The Sydney hobby store’s logo carries “90 Years of Serious Fun!”, and its header pairs search with an “Ask HobbyGenius” assistant and a Stores icon. A strip under the menu lists free shipping over $125, Hobbycoins rewards, hassle-free returns and a phone-order line, and deal prices on the homepage are tagged either “In-Store” or “Online”. Its locations page reported “5 stores found.”, starting at the Queen Victoria Building. On the phone the store behaves like an app, with a bottom bar for Home, Categories, Cart, Wishlist and Account. Its feed stops at 25,000 listings, and those have a A$39.99 median, from A$1 to a A$3,109.99 statue; Reviews.io and Gorgias load.
Do this next: label each offer with the channel it works in. An “In-Store” tag on a deal settles the question before someone crosses the city for it. Browse hobbyco.com.au
99 Bikes
The bike chain asks where you are before anything else: a bar under the menu reads “Delivering To: Sydney 2000” and “Collecting From: Alexandria”, with a link to change location. The red header lists Workshop, Contact and Stores, the hero urged commuters to skip the servo and ride an e-bike, and a strip calls its branches the world’s most approachable bike shops, with a Reviews.io score of 4.6 from 62,971 reviews. Its store locator holds 75 shops, two of them marked “Opening Soon!”, and product pages show stock by size “at this location”, with click and collect from the chosen store. Its feed stops at 25,000 listings; those have a A$129.99 median, from A$0.50 to a A$17,499 BMC road bike. Afterpay, Reviews.io, Trustpilot and Algolia load.
Do this next: set the shopper’s store at the top of every page. Once “Collecting From” is filled in, each product answers “can I pick it up today?” without a click. Browse 99bikes.com.au
Maggie Beer
The Barossa food brand had started Christmas early: “Save 10% with our Christmas Pre-Sale!” with the code EARLY10, asking buyers to reserve hampers and gift packs and “lock in your delivery week”. A gold ticker sets free delivery at $80 for Food Club members and $120 for everyone else, and a “Join Maggie’s Food Club” block offers $10 off a first order. The Visit Us page describes one shop, Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop at Nuriootpa, “where it all began back in 1979”, beside an eatery run by Maggie and Colin’s daughter Elli and an orchard house for overnight stays. Its 243 products are typically A$39.95, from A$4.75 sauces to a A$289 hamper with Moët; Afterpay, Yotpo, Trustpilot, Gorgias, Algolia and Searchspring load.
Do this next: let the one shop tell the brand’s story online. “Where it all began” gives a hamper bought from another state a place the buyer can picture. Browse maggiebeer.com.au
Sage x Clare
The homewares label used its phone top bar for a warning: “Be wary of ads promoting online Warehouse Sales. Ours are in person only.” On the computer the bar showed free shipping over A$150 or NZ$250 and “Over 12,000 5-star reviews”, and the menu includes a Bed Builder beside bedroom, bath, kitchen and Wear ranges. The hero introduced Dakota, a Christmas collection sold on nostalgia rather than novelty. Its locations page describes one store, opened on 1 November 2025 in Lorne on the Great Ocean Road, and a Bayswater showroom “open for Click and Collect orders only”. Its 1,768 products are typically A$119, from A$6.50 to A$2,199 for a rug, with fabric samples left out; Okendo, Junip, Klaviyo, Gorgias and Nosto load. On our slowed test phone it was the quickest of the 21, drawing its main content in 2.6 seconds even though the homepage weighed 8.2 MB.
Do this next: if scammers copy your sale format, warn shoppers in the top bar. Sage x Clare names the fake and says where its real sales happen. Browse sageandclare.com
The Diggers Club
The heirloom-seed club’s homepage opened with an orange notice that “Adelaide phone lines are currently down”, asking Adelaide customers to email instead: a problem at one shop, announced on the online store. The menu runs Spring, Shop, Membership, Visit, Learn, What’s on and Give, and the hero sells “Perfect perennials” to “Plant once and enjoy for years to come.” Its Visit pages describe three garden shops, in Adelaide, at Heronswood by Port Phillip Bay, and at the Garden of St Erth, where the shop is housed in “the original sandstone cottage from the garden of St Erth’s Gold Rush heyday”. The club calls itself “a certified social enterprise”. With garden tours, webinars and memberships set aside, its 1,835 products are typically A$12.95 (A$4.25 to A$312.80); Klaviyo and Boost load. No homepage here weighed more (10.8 MB), yet its main content appeared after 2.6 seconds on our throttled phone, the second-best time of the 21.
Do this next: when a shop has a problem, post it on the website too. A one-line banner saves customers a phone call that would not have connected. Browse diggers.com.au
All 21 retailers side by side: price, shop features, speed and shop count
| Retailer | Market | Typical price (cheapest–dearest) | What the site does for the shops | Slow-phone load | Own shops listed on its site, 20 Oct 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krewe | US | $335 ($40–$455) | Try-on list of every store on product pages | 4.9 s | 18 stores |
| Parachute | US | $249 ($9–$2,850) | In-store pickup at all six; design consultations | 8.7 s | 6 stores |
| Heath Ceramics | US | $100 ($1.80–$15,000) | Factory tours booked online | 7.4 s | 6 showrooms and outposts |
| Fishs Eddy | US | $18 ($4–$79) | Locations page; gift registry | 6.7 s | 3 shops |
| Di Bruno Bros. | US | $69.99 ($1.99–$5,600) | Store locator; Instacart and DoorDash links | 18.0 s | 3 shops |
| Chicago Music Exchange | US | $879.98 ($0.50–$99,995) | Showroom viewings offered on listings | 30.7 s | 1 showroom |
| Rad Power Bikes | US | $55 ($5–$2,399) | Test rides; in-store offer in the hero | 22.5 s | 7 RadRetail stores |
| Persephone Books | UK | £18 (£2.50–£85) | Shop events sold as tickets | 4.9 s | 1 shop (a second announced) |
| Lakeland | UK | £9.99 (£0.25–£3,800) | Free click and collect | 14.5 s | 57 stores |
| Paxton & Whitfield | UK | £23.95 (£3–£500) | Free click and collect at all four | 26.1 s | 4 shops |
| Cubitts | UK | £175 (£10–£675) | Eye exams booked from the header | 6.7 s | 18 UK stores (+2 in New York) |
| Loop London | UK | £9.95 (£0.10–£730) | Click and collect; classes | 22.0 s | 1 shop |
| Temple Cycles | UK | £595 (£5–£3,495) | Showroom appointments; click and collect | 4.1 s | 2 showrooms |
| Burford Garden Co. | UK | £26 (£1.50–£8,995) | Visiting guide; in-store gift cards | 15.6 s | 1 store |
| Milligram | Australia | A$29.99 (A$1–A$529) | Store finder; in-store workshops | 9.4 s | 11 stores (+1 coming soon) |
| Eckersley’s | Australia | A$16.95 (A$0.25–A$9,900) | Find In Store on product pages | 3.8 s | 27 stores |
| Hobbyco | Australia | A$39.99 (A$1–A$3,109.99) | Deals tagged In-Store or Online | 4.7 s | 5 stores |
| 99 Bikes | Australia | A$129.99 (A$0.50–A$17,499) | Collect-from store set on every page | 5.7 s | 75 shops (2 opening soon) |
| Maggie Beer | Australia | A$39.95 (A$4.75–A$289) | Farm shop visit page | 6.6 s | 1 farm shop |
| Sage x Clare | Australia | A$119 (A$6.50–A$2,199) | Click-and-collect showroom | 2.6 s | 1 store (+ a collection-only showroom) |
| The Diggers Club | Australia | A$12.95 (A$4.25–A$312.80) | Garden shop pages; shop notices | 2.6 s | 3 garden shops |
Retailers we checked and left out
Our shortlist held 118 candidate retailers (36 American, 44 British and 38 Australian), all outside clothing, footwear, beauty and supplements. Many showed no Shopify storefront code on 20 October 2026: Russ & Daughters, Zabar’s, Zingerman’s, Sur La Table, Korin and Article One in the US; Daunt Books, Mr B’s Emporium, Fortnum & Mason, Daylesford, Charbonnel et Walker, Oliver Bonas, Graham & Green, Brompton, Petersham Nurseries, Cass Art, L. Cornelissen & Son and Andertons in the UK; and Avid Reader, Gleebooks, Berkelouw, QBD, Bailey Nelson, Oscar Wylee, Mud Australia, Shut the Front Door, Papaya, Simon Johnson, Jones the Grocer and Peter’s of Kensington in Australia. MoMA Design Store, Murray’s Cheese, Purl Soho, Warby Parker, Strand Book Store, McNally Jackson, Sugarfina, Rough Trade, Banquet Records, ProCook, Loaf, Ace & Tate, Readings, Artist Guitars, Flower Power, Victoria’s Basement, Kitchen Warehouse and Dymocks turned our automated check away, so their platform stayed unconfirmed. A few would not show us their local storefront at all: Rifle Paper Co., Bernal Cutlery and The Conran Shop bounced our visit to a search engine. Priority Bicycles, Borough Kitchen, Rococo Chocolates, Scribbler, Present & Correct and Dinosaur Designs disregarded our country setting and showed prices in a different currency, as did Smythson (US dollars for Britain) and Lekker Bikes (euros for Australia), so none of them could be pictured the way a resident shopper meets them. kikki.K and Store DJ run custom storefronts with no public product list to price. Reid Cycles, The Sill, Schoolhouse, Hedley & Bennett and Bonnie and Neil passed the platform check but listed no shop of their own, and Paper Source, Neptune and Third Man Records did not show a countable list of shops on the pages we read. Garrett Leight, East Fork, Moscot, Oka, Fudge Kitchen, Finlay & Co, Neal’s Yard Dairy, Divertimenti, Golden Hare Books, Choosing Keeping, Pashley and Bendigo Woollen Mills passed both checks; we left them out to keep each country to seven and the categories varied.
How the 21 were picked and checked
- Who qualified: a homepage carrying the code that Shopify puts on the storefronts it hosts, prices in the shopper’s own currency, and at least one physical shop under the retailer’s own name listed on its own website. We did not check which till or point-of-sale system any shop uses, and the list makes no claim about it.
- Shop counts: taken on 20 October 2026 from each store’s own stores, locations or visit page, which we saved as text. Lakeland’s figure comes from the store-locator data its page loads, 99 Bikes’ from the store cards in its locator page, Cubitts’ from the British store pages it links (two New York stores are not counted) and The Diggers Club’s from its three garden-shop pages. Shops marked as coming soon are not counted, apart from 99 Bikes, whose 75 include two marked “Opening Soon!”; the table notes both cases.
- Screenshots: headless Chrome at 1,280 and 390 pixels wide, with each market’s country and currency forced through cookies. Cookie banners were refused wherever they offered a refuse button, and newsletter pop-ups were dismissed. Krewe was captured without pop-up clicks because the clicks kept breaking its page frames, and Cubitts with a separate script that pressed its own Deny button; Temple Cycles’ country picker, which opened for our test connection, was dismissed, leaving the UK store and pound prices in place.
- Prices: every page of each public product list, not just the first 250 items. The feeds of Chicago Music Exchange, Hobbyco and 99 Bikes stop at 25,000 listings, so their medians come from those. Gift cards and vouchers, fabric and tile samples, repairs and other services, classes, workshops, tastings, tours and event tickets, subscription plans, packaging supplies, fees and prices under ten cents were set aside. We report the median of all variant prices listed that day, so markdowns count.
- Shop features: read from each homepage, one product page and the store page; anything that only appears in the cart or checkout is not covered.
- Load time: Largest Contentful Paint (when the hero image or main heading finished drawing), the faster of two runs with the cache cleared, on a Pixel-sized Android profile whose processor ran at a quarter of its speed over a network held to 1.6 Mbps. Real 4G is far faster, so read the figures as a ranking of these 21 stores rather than as what a customer will see.
- Apps: detected in the homepage source only.
Running shops and a Shopify store as one business
What separates these retailers is less the design of their homepages than the plumbing behind them: stock that is right for each branch, collection that works on the day, gift cards and rewards that work at the till and on the site, and a store page that gives people a reason to visit. That joining-up is the core of our Shopify setup for retailers with physical stores, from location inventory and pickup to unified customers and loyalty. If you are still choosing the tools for the counter, start with our comparison of Shopify POS and retail apps, and if you would rather hand the build to a team, see our list of retail-focused Shopify Plus agencies.
