Category: store experience
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“What on earth is happening in my stores?!”
“How can I actually know for certain what is happening in my stores and what my customers are doing, and so ultimately know what to do to improve their experience and my commerciality?” It is still a widespread scenario that head office retail functions do not know what is happening hour after hour, day…
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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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Italian Export: Satisfying the Appetite for Eataly
Italian cuisine has always travelled well, but its global reach and reputation has been taken to new levels of excellence by the Eataly concept, combining its prestigious packaged products and finest fresh fayre with a variety of eateries from formal restaurants, to pizzerias and casual coffee bars. From New York to the New East it continues…
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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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John Lewis “over the moon” about Christmas!
Well, you’re going to see this a million times before the man in the red robes makes his way down your chimney this year. Like it or not its up to you, and as with all good things that make friends and build loyalty it will equally develop enemies on the less sentimental side of…
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Tim Radley “Visual Merchandising a Return to Selling” No.2
“Visual Merchandising – A Return to Selling!” part 2 An article by Tim Radley in VM&RD Magazine India I was fortunate enough this year to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found was energy, enthusiasm and real excitement about the future of Indian retail and this great…
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Tim Radley “Visual Merchandising; a Return to Selling” No.1
“Visual Merchandising – A Return to Selling!” part 1 An article by Tim Radley in VM&RD Magazine India I was fortunate enough this year to be invited to speak at the In-Store Asia event in Mumbai. What I found was energy, enthusiasm and real excitement about the future of Indian retail and this great industry…
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How should Football Clubs Maximise Christmas Retail Sales?
An article featuring Tim Radley of VM-Unleashed! in Football Club Business Magazine “Make a Football Experience to Remember!” Christmas is an enormous opportunity for all retailers but in particular for those brands with a strong loyalty and emotional connection with their customers and where gift and impulse sales have the potential to go over the proverbial moon.…
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Primark Weighs in State Side: Entry of a Fashion Heavyweight
In a statement of international intent Primark fired its first style salvo into the soft belly of the US value fashion market with the opening of its 8,000 sqm Boston flagship. Truly a shopping space full of superlatives, the four floors are home to 530 mannequins, 84 fitting rooms, 73 cash registers and a…
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