Category: ladies fashion
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.3 Supply Chain Strategies
Supply Chain Partners: In the same boat together The relationship with suppliers has never been so important. The COVID lockdown exposed the dangers of weak supplier integration, whilst the move to remote digital communications highlighted the opportunities for technology applications across new supply chains. Trust between some suppliers and retailers hit an all-time low as…
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.2 Product Assortment Strategies
The Product Assortment. ‘The Crowning of the King’ ‘The Product is King’ or so the old-adage goes. It seems strange to doubt this statement. After all, retail is the process of bringing the product and the customer together. Product is still at the heart of retail, of course, but its role as ‘absolute king’ is…
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What are retail’s 6 ‘Astute Strategies‘
in accessories, analytics, assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, ethical retailing, fashion accessories, fast fashion, food & drink, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, home, impulse retailing, in-store services, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, location strategy, luxury, meaning in the retail madness, menswear, multi-category, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, pop-up stores, pre-loved, preorder, product suppliers, pureplay, re-sell, recycling, renting, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, secondhand, shop of the future, social savvy, space management, space planning, store experience, store operations, store operations audits, store operations compliance, store theatre, supply-chains, sustainability, technology & electrical, town centre planning, value retailing, visual merchandising, visual merchandising operations, vm compliance, vm operationsCreating a balanced organisation, flexible process flows, and a culture for change will benefit you little, unless you channel these attributes correctly into the brightest opportunities. Every retailer will have different opportunities that will depend on the product and service sectors that they inhabit, the markets in which they operate, their level of ambition and…
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“Saving Planet Retail:” From ‘Economies of Scale’ to ‘Scale of Economies!’
From ‘Economies of Scale’ to ‘Scale of Economies!’ The principle behind making money from ‘economies of scale’ is to produce high volumes of products, which reduces the individual unit cost. The more you make and the more you sell the greater the margin and the greater the profit. The principle behind making money from ‘scale…
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Zara: moving stylishly from linear to lateral processes
Zara: moving stylishly from linear to lateral processes Linear processes push product through the system and into shops. They make money from buying & supply efficiency. Lateral processes consider at every stage the qualitative attributes of the product. They enhance and add-value to the assortment. They make money from selling. From selling more, and selling…
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Fashion, Fusion, Follies: Selfridges Studio Experience
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, internationalisation, ladies fashion, luxury, Pinterest Gallery, product suppliers, retail, retail management, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandisingBuilding excitement and new physical experiences is transforming the third floor of Selfridges London into a must-see destination as it unveils a series of lifestyle studios to entice & enthral its adrenaline driven customers. The Design studio is the latest area to be unveiled and at over 1000sqm presents itself a home for innovative and…
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Body Beautiful: Selfridges Studio of Serenity
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, fashion accessories, health & beauty, in-store services, internationalisation, ladies fashion, leisure & sport, luxury, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandising, windowsSelfridges 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 experience,…
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Spanish Statement: Primark’s Pinnacle of Pre-eminence
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, fashion accessories, fast fashion, footwear, home, internationalisation, jewellery, kids fashion, ladies fashion, location strategy, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail strategy, shop of the future, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store theatre, visual merchandisingThe last decade has seen the rise of Primark as a tour de force in the world of value fashion as it strides from the UK and Ireland across Spain, Germany, Italy and now to the United States. It is easy but incorrect to brand Primark as simply low prices. These it certainly has through…
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The Evolution of Inventory
Agile retail businesses are shifting the supply chain to support a major strategic and operational focus on new inventories. The traditional approach of producing an inventory which is then sold, as much as is possible, is being transformed into an approach where a partly, or fully, virtual inventory is showcased as much as possible, and…
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Introducing the new book ‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, food & drink, health & beauty, high street planning, ladies fashion, location strategy, multi-category, omni-channel retailing, personalisation, pop-up stores, retail brand heritage, retail-regeneration, sales promotions & events, social savvy, space management, store experience, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, town centre planning, visual merchandisingHow to be an essential retailer Every retailer must now be essential, supporting the emotional lifestyle and well-being of the customer, as well as simply supplying products.‘Meaning in the Retail Madness’ explains how touchpoints have replaced channels, how linear supply chains will become circular, why assortments are increasingly virtual, how physical is turning to local,…
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