Category: multi-category
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Freestanding Fashion: Tesco oFF & Running
An established attraction within Tesco stores the familiar face of F+F now has a fascia, proud and prominent in the Earls Court flagship store. A mezzanine with meaning. Womenswear takes the stage with a friendly functional fit-out clearly segmented in formal casual and lingerie. The mezzanine situation provides a welcome firebreak from the frantic food…
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Selfridges Designer Street Room: “Strategies behind the Scenes”
For several years Selfridges strategy has been to create flexible and dynamic spaces.Each space is a complete concept. Built around the assortment it includes the music, installations, fixtures and fittings.Down to display techniques and up to showcase features such as the Skate Bowl. The spaces are customer focused “end-use” propositions such as the Designer Street Room…
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Incredible Universe: “Welcome to the Global Shopping Mall”
Tim Radley speaking at the PLUGin event – “Welcome to the Global Shopping Mall – future of E-commerce and Retail” Those, with a longer retail tooth, will remember an extreme retail concept from the 1990s called Incredible Universe. At 17,000 sqm it was a retail heavyweight, selling everything electrical and technological, such as it…
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Future of Visual Merchandising: Tim Radley- Retail Design Expo
Tim Radley, Speaking at The Retail Design Expo You don’t need me to alert you to the fact that retail is in very unchartered territory at the moment as a combination of e-commerce & social media, expensive store portfolios, business rate adjustments and the customer’s changing behaviour towards almost everything from loyalty, possessions, experiences…
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Aaah Bicester! Tasty Temptations in “Tesco Town”
It’s fair to say that Tesco has always been at the vanguard of UK supermarket design from its famous 3D animated penguins and oversized banana signage to the opening of the UKs first true hypermarket concept, experimentation with category management with a focus on customer journey and missions to its collaboration on convenience and petrol…
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Argos Accelerated: The Digital Dilemma of an Invisible Assortment
Better late than never Argos, the seasoned survivor of the catalogue age, continues to catapult its perfect proposition for the omni-channel world from its pre-historic paper origins into the efficiencies of a digital dynamo The latest Argos incarnation discards not only the traditional catalogues encapsulated in plastic, its pens & pencils, its paper order…
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“Making the most of what Retailers’ have!” The 3 P’s – product, places & people.
After another turbulent week on the world’s stock markets and a refocus on the uncertain economic horizons ahead, purse strings are inevitably drawn ever more tightly around the already tied arms of retail bosses and managers. Restricted investment in the new, leaves the only other alternative – “to make the most of what retailers…
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VM&RD: “What’s The Future of Visual Merchandising?” Part 3 “Education or Compliance?”
An article by Tim Radley in India’s VM&RD Magazine Extracted from the article on “What is the Future for Visual Merchandising?” a first collaboration with VM&SD Magazine, India’s only magazine to focus on all aspects of retail design and visual merchandising in the context of branded shopping environment. “What is the future for visual merchandising? Part 3…
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Automotivation: Rockar’s Super Highway Hyundai Boutique
In a sector well overdue for its service, a new arrival in the market is taking off the handbrake on retail innovation and hurtling headlong into the comfortably parked parade of traditional car show-rooms. In partnership with Hyundai, no slouch off the starting blocks itself, the Rockar dealership has introduced its first omni-channel experience…
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Insuring Success: Selling in Any Event
At the risk of being boring…. John Lewis outstanding performance never misses a trick to tempt and attract customers into spending in the UK’s favourite emporium. Once criticised for being static and staid, the retailer has built onto its enviable reputation for reliability and trust a new role as multi-channel leaders and a destination…
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