Category: assortment structure planning
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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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Tim Radley “Visual Merchandising a Return to Selling” No.2
“Visual Merchandising – A Return to Selling!” part 2 An article by Tim Radley in VM&RD Magazine India I was fortunate enough this year to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found was energy, enthusiasm and real excitement about the future of Indian retail and this great…
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Tim Radley “Visual Merchandising; a Return to Selling” No.1
“Visual Merchandising – A Return to Selling!” part 1 An article by Tim Radley in VM&RD Magazine India I was fortunate enough this year to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found was energy, enthusiasm and real excitement about the future of Indian retail and this great industry…
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Retail integration: Product stories with buying & merchandising
It’s not uncommon for retail buyers to get so familiar with their product that they find it very difficult to view it from a customers’ perspective. Even the best assortment will not achieve its commercial potential if it is not displayed and communicated in a way that presents a clear, powerful and irresistible proposition to…
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How should Football Clubs Maximise Christmas Retail Sales?
An article featuring Tim Radley of VM-Unleashed! in Football Club Business Magazine “Make a Football Experience to Remember!” Christmas is an enormous opportunity for all retailers but in particular for those brands with a strong loyalty and emotional connection with their customers and where gift and impulse sales have the potential to go over the proverbial moon.…
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Retail Integration: Integrating Space Planning with Assortment Planning
Whether your retail involvement comes from a field based visual perspective or from a head office commercial perspective stores can often disappoint, both in terms of the visual perception and the financial reality. Whilst there will be opportunities for improvement in both store and head office processes, it is often the integration of the two…
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Sonic Selfridges: Big Noise in the World of Music
There are many magical corners of the Selfridges supersized store to admire and marvel at, to lose yourself in an exploration of a wondrous assortment from traditional classics to outrageous innovation. In the basement bowels of the lower ground floor through the avenue of travel accessories, luggage and literature is a gem of a…
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