Tag: Omni-channel
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Is your online sales & physical store numbers strategy in place?
Online & offline, the biggest challenge for historic retailers is to remain relevant and attractive to their customers. That will ultimately dictate the online sales potential and physical store numbers that will be viable for a business. Do you remember the days when the e-commerce part of a bricks ‘n’ mortar business was compared to…
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Saving & Making Money from New Store Concepts & Re-fits!
Tim Radley, speaking at the Retail Shopfitting & Display Summit 2018 Part 1: Setting the scene for performance. We may all be forgiven for believing that physical stores are dead-in-the-water of the tidal wave of retail revolution carrying all convention before it on a journey to outlet oblivion. However it’s very much a matter of…
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MADE+ in Heaven: Delivered to your Door!
So, imagine a furniture concept that throws out the baggage of the traditional way of doing things, and re-invents the whole process from the perspective of the customer and the designer. More or less, you have Made.com Made is born from a passion for modern, beautiful furniture and the frustration of buying it the old-fashioned…
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Celebrating Omnichannel: Exorcising the ghosts of Christmas past, present & future…
So the winner yet again this Christmas was online retail. Also, apparently and a little contradictory, Amazon was at the same time killing off retail itself, which is a little strange considering that the last time I logged on to Amazon, it was indeed a retailer. It all makes for good headlines, even if…
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8th Joy of Retail Spring: Defining Omnichannel Assortments
The question “how much product should I put in my stores?” has always generated animated and healthy debate amongst retail businesses. That question, and the discussions around it, just got a whole lot more complicated as the opportunities and threats of e-commerce and true omni-channel assortment allocation has made store capacities one of the most important…
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MissGuided: Heat Seeking Fashion
Born and bred online, young fashion retailer Missguided is now cutting its terrestrial teeth as it continues to roll out its physical flagship stores to major shopping centres in the UK. Full of attitude, high on fashion and riding a dynamic rollercoaster the task in hand was always to translate this successful e-commerce formula into…
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Retailers – “You’ve never had it so complicated!”
Is your retail brand ready to succeed in a complicated, customer orientated world? Without doubt, life used to be easy for retailers. To echo the famous words directed to the general public “you’ve never had it so good” the equally valid claim to retail businesses was definitely “you’ve never had it so easy!” In…
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