Author: Tim
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Fancy Footwork: Asics Speak for Feet Pinterest gallery!
Bathed in a blissful blue the Asics flagship stores exude a confidence that comes from being one of the premium performance footwear brands. There is authority and integrity in the regimented displays, the streamlined athletic mannequins and the tactile surfaces of the store. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand…
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Exeter Stage Left: High Drama at John Lewis
Five floors of experimental retail in a multi-channel world lands in the quiet city of Exeter. The store is a hybrid concept, laying as it does between the traditional department store and the specialists home stores of the brand. The format lives for hotspots and focal points driving traffic and excitement between and through floors.…
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Cool Cat in the Capital: Tiger Earns its Stripes
Tiger has been slowly prowling the streets of the world for a while, with its irresistible proposition of impulse product, low prices and beautiful, attractive designs. Its latest incarnation is its first attack into the streets of London with a bright bold yet typical store on Tottenham Court Road. The assortment creams the impulse element…
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Summer Loved: Kidston Calm & Collected
Cath Kidston captures the calmness and coolness of a British summer like no one else. The mood and feel is sublimely caught from every polka dot top of the home page to every striped bottom of the blog postings. And whilst every detail is in character the site also packs a commercial punch, with drop-dead,…
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Wicked Company: An Invitation to Indulge
The White Company No longer Whiter than White. Invitations abound and temptations await around every corner as The White Company urges its customers to wallow in the beauty of its assortment and experience first hand the softness, the quality, the fineness and the sheer irresistability of its products. A formal invitation seems hardly necessary with…
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Window-Framed!: Virtual Mirror becomes a RayBan Reality
Innovation & imagination driving brand curiority, footfall and pounds in the till. Crowds of curious shoppers jostle for a place in front of the virtual mirror outside the handful of Rayban Stores worldwide. Technology that has been a favourite online feature allows the willing to select their favourite classic Rayban shape and apply to their…
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Fancy Footwork: Asics Speak for Feet
Bathed in a blissful blue… the Asics flagship stores exude a confidence that comes from being one of the premium performance footwear brands. There is authority and integrity in the regimented displays, the streamlined athletic mannequins and the tactile surfaces of the store. Focal to the proposition and the adventure through the store is the…
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Maxximum Potential: TK Putting on the Style
On the back of surging sales, TK Maxx plots its path to bargain brand domination with a central London flagship store in the heart of fashionista Covent Garden. The selected assortment tailors to the trendy and the cash-strapped coveters of current labels. New to this store is the Goldlabel departments where only the very best…
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The Mango Recipe: Everyday Essentials & Classic Ingredients
The improvement in the Mango mens’ assortment goes back to old fashioned principles. “Sell to customers what they want, when they want it” is the premise behind the move to authority and credibility that underpins the latest SS assortment. Whilst the store is blocked by category for ease of shop and clarity of offer, the…
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The delight, not the devil, is in the detail…
One man’s meat is another man’s poison…or to be more accurate, “a customers delight is the buyer’s devil” Complex is not a large enough adjective to describe the process of planning, designing and buying an assortment. We no longer live in a world of “selling average products to average customers” but in a competitive market…
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