Category: retail organisations
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The 6 Best Retail Strategies: No.1 Touchpoint & Location Strategies
Touchpoints: ‘Taking it to the customer’ The relationship is shifting from distinctive channels to a continuously changing number of touchpoints. These touchpoints cut across digital and physical channels. They are used by the customer as they please, often with little predictability. Speaking of channels is irrelevant. It is one brand delivering retail services to a…
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Made.com: fabricating a new approach to furniture
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, home, meaning in the retail madness, new retail, omni-channel retailing, product suppliers, retail, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, social savvy, supply-chains, telling product storiesMade.com was founded in 2010, as an online retail enterprise. As a product of recent times, it exhibits the same entrepreneurial culture, a desire to innovate, and an appetite to disrupt the traditional way of doing things in its own sector, as other digital-first businesses. Imagine a furniture concept that throws out the baggage of…
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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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Building a Retail Organisation for the 21st Century: The Retail Business Funnel
A Complex ‘House of Cards’ ‘The journey to being a modern retail organisation’ will take us on a path through brand propositions, organisational structures, process flows, functional teams, support teams, innovations teams, and external collaborators, all bound together within a dynamic business model which is digital-first. We need to bring together the stability of the…
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Max&Co: Fashionably Good Company
Stylish and socially sophisticated Max&Co still packs a huge punch of personality into every meticulously planned meter of its store experience. A warm welcome from manicured mannequins with lipstick, lashes and a coy curiosity immediately alerts any casual customer that this lady of the more fashionable lanes offers a lifestyle proposition both feminine, fashionable and…
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Watch & Wonder: Selfridges Serves up an Apple Experience
in branding & visual communication, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, internationalisation, location strategy, luxury, new retail, omni-channel retailing, packaging, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, pop-up stores, product suppliers, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, store experience, store theatre, technology & electrical, telling product stories, visual merchandising, windowsTime is money and when it comes to Apple that money and revenue can be sizable, so speed to market and proximity to the pockets of its patrons is an essential element to retrieving its return on investment. In a collaboration of near colossal proportions Apple has taken chronological control of all of Selfridges’ windows…
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Microsoft Moves: New Windows on the Retail World
in accessories, branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, disruptive retail, in-store services, internationalisation, new retail, omni-channel retailing, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail organisations, store experience, technology & electrical, telling product storiesThere are many rhymes and reasons why brands become retailers, and the buyout of Nokia by Microsoft and the rebranding of the phone hardware has given the software giant an interesting opportunity to develop a physical store presence. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop…
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Graphic Treatments: Whole Foods Complete Image
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer-engagement, food & drink, in-store services, packaging, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, sales promotions & events, space management, space planning, store experience, store layout, store operations, store theatre, telling product stories, visual merchandisingDynamic graphic communication which is both in brand but constantly relevant and ostentatiously spontaneous is not an easy balance to achieve yet Whole Foods succeeds with style and taste, coordinating permanent navigational signage with service messages, product information with health advice, seasonal event communication and dynamic product promotions without reverting to the stale stereotypical use…
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Larger than Life: Simply Be a Physical Presence
in assortment structure planning, branding & visual communication, customer service, customer-engagement, fast fashion, footwear, health & beauty, high street planning, ladies fashion, menswear, multi-category, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail businesses, retail organisations, retail strategy, store layout, store operations, value retailing, visual merchandisingWhilst the most successful physical brands continue to maximise online and mobile opportunities a noteworthy entrant in the opposite direction has recently opened on Oxford Street in London, announcing its serious intent to compete across all channels. Simple Be’s proposition is not just as a highly successful catalogue and online apparel operator but also as…
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Automotivation: Rockar’s Super Highway Hyundai Boutique
in branding & visual communication, customer experience, customer service, customer-engagement, internationalisation, leisure & sport, personalisation, Pinterest Gallery, retail, retail brand heritage, retail businesses, retail management, retail organisations, retail strategy, store theatre, store-videos, telling product stories, visual merchandisingIn 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. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays &…
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