Category: space management
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3rd Joy of a Retail Spring – How much product in my stores?
Space planning & visual merchandising are the two cornerstones on which an attractive and commercial store are built At the heart of this is the eternal question – “How much product should I put in my store?” Get space planning wrong, allocate product incorrectly or deliver visual merchandising operations inefficiently and a store will never…
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Apple Digital Garden: A Natural Evolution
It is a fair claim to say that Apple revolutionised retail just as it had with entertainment, work and communications channels before. This visionary business realised that the value of theatre and physical interaction was at the core of the retail experience; and that immediate sales were only a secondary objective for directly owned stores…
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Fashion, Fusion & Follies: Selfridges Studio Experience
Building 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…
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Am I displaying with the correct option density?
Am I displaying with the correct option density?How to have your cake and eat it! Some of the most obvious questions are often the hardest to answer, or to be more accurate it would seem, are the ones that no one wants to answer. The repercussions of this “small question” are very great for…
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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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Retail Integration: store layout with the customer experience
Planning your store layout for maximum profit illustrates yet again the importance of integration within a retail business, the bringing together of the commercial and the emotional, the marriage of the beauty and the beast. On the one hand the store needs to be functional and based on sound commercial strategy and decision making whilst…
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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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“Getting the quality from quantities!” how to benefit from retail benchmarking and analytics
Almost everything is measurable and comparable in retail stores but the benefits only come through understanding the implications and the opportunities that lay within the many depths of the powerpoint charts and excel graphs. Firstly, benchmarking should not be blind but focused on areas of commercial opportunity and the improvement of sales, profit and customer…
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VM&RD: “What’s the Future of Visual Merchandising?” Part 4 “The Role of Technology in VMOperations”
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. Part 4 “The Role of Technology in…
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Visual Merchandising Operations: The dangers of “spread-sheet retailing”
Many a good and potentially commercial idea and initiative has never made it from the boardroom to the operational teams, never mind the stores themselves. The complexity of the modern store portfolio has added to this problem, as stores develop a mixture of owned and franchise stores, international coverage and increased store grading and clustering…
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