Category: brave-words
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“Shopportunities” – What makes a town’s retail good?
“Shopportunities” – What makes a town’s retail good Tim Radley speaking at Dublin’s “The Future of Irish Towns” Dun Laoghaire, Ireland: Thursday April 16th. One thing is for sure. It is not just the number of retail outlets that makes a town an excellent destination for retail or not. When you begin to…
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“Shopportunities” – The Role of Retail in Rejuvenating Town Centres
“Shopportunities” – The Role of Retail in Rejuvenating Town Centres Tim Radley will be speaking at Dublin’s “The Future of Towns” Dun Laoghaire: Thursday April 16th. A big question often requires us to go back to basics. So before we attempt to reverse the tides of change and inject new life into the retail…
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Visual Merchandising in today’s Hostile Retail Environment
in brave-wordsVisual Merchandising in today’s hostile retail environment Tim Radley, speaking at London’s Retail Design Expo Olympia, London: Wednesday March 11th – 2pm Every retailer today is working in a hostile retail world, and every visual merchandiser in hostile environments. The challenges that face both today are unprecedented in their complexity and the speed…
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Visual Merchandising: An Ongoing evolution!
in brave-wordsVisual Merchandising: An Ongoing Evolution! Forthcoming presentation, Tim Radley, speaking at London’s Retail Design Expo Olympia, London: Wednesday March 11th – 2pm Visual merchandising has proven itself to be a versatile and resilient part of retail businesses and has survived many changes of heart as commercial retail has periodically fallen in and out, and…
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Thank You India: A Refreshing Retail Tonic
Travel broadens the mind but also helps to focus it on what is most important and what can often be forgotten or neglected on our journey through the particularly frenzied and changing landscape of retail. I was fortunate enough recently to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found…
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75 things you should know about your stores: No.53 Queue Utilization
The capacity exists to understand every detail of your stores, the way that customers move around them, are attracted to assortment displays, are tempted into touching product and are compelled to convert their engagement into sales. An incredible journey is just beginning! No.53. “Queue Utilization” In physical stores the queuing process related to tills and in…
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75 things you should know about your stores: No.24 “Idle Time”
The capacity exists to understand every detail of your stores, the way that customers move around them, are attracted to assortment displays, are tempted into touching product and are compelled to convert their engagement into sales. An incredible journey is just beginning! No.24. “Idle Time” Just as music is defined by the silence between notes, the…
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Where is the proof for confident investment in retail store improvements and new initiatives?
Let’s face it any changes to our stores are investments. Some initiatives are clearly more of a financial investment with definite budgets and costs, but in times were retail teams are lean and schedules already full of essential tasks then sometimes investment in time, hours, days and weeks to develop and deliver something new in…
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The Retail Relay: “Running a 3-legged race, in a 4 leg event?”
“A chain is as strong as its weakest link” could never be more appropriate than the chain of events that transforms a retail strategy into a store full of tangible, buyable products. “And what the customer sees and responds to is unfortunately the result of the weakest link, not the strongest one!” To achieve…
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“The Money of Colour”
Put your profits in the black, the blue, the green, the fuschia and even the red, but avoid a retail life of grey… As the most emotional tool in the armoury of retailers, brands and manufacturers it is still sometimes surprising how little strategy lies behind the use of colour. And for sure the ways…
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