Category: assortment structure planning
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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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Am I displaying with the correct option density?
Am I displaying with the correct option density?How to have your cake and eat it! Some of the most obvious questions are often the hardest to answer, or to be more accurate it would seem, are the ones that no one wants to answer. The repercussions of this “small question” are very great for…
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Fossilisation: A Personal Investment
Far from remaining in the history of time, Fossil’s latest incarnation inhabits the modern world of customisation and personalisation, with new products, new services and a whole new store with a clear focus on the “his” & “hers.” An investment in individual identity. Most noticeable in the latest concept is the introduction of the…
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Body Beautiful: Selfridges Studio of Serenity
Selfridges opens its biggest ever department, Body Studio, encompassing everything that is exciting and inspirational about London’s leading department store. Never the laggard Selfridges is ahead of the trend as its manoeuvres gracefully to gain a fitness foot hold in the fastest growing area of fashion – Athleisure. The department brings together an intimate…
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Retail analysis: The Usual Suspects – Personalisation & Patterns
It’s very easy for a retailer to go chasing in circles attempting to catch the evasive scraps of essential new data, insights and analysis blown into a constant ferment by the prevailing winds of new information. Throw into this cyclone complex omni-channel data, progressively pervasive loyalty programme insights, beacons pursuing the personalisation profile of every…
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“10 ways to make more money…No.9 Add Value! Be Special!”
Come and listen to Tim Radley speaking at the Retail Design Expo Olympia, London No. 9 ““Add value! Be special!” “Value” is subjective and driven by emotions as opposed to “Price” which is objective and pragmatic. The desire to buy in all cases is driven by the perception of value and not by price.…
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Hema Global: New Blood in New Street
For a retailer with a long heritage Hema packs a powerful contemporary punch as it speeds into the newly refurbished New Street Station in Birmingham. On the fast track to becoming a global brand Hema now has 5 UK stores, with 3 of these in high traffic transport hubs including Stansted airport. In the…
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