Category: store layout
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75 things you should know about your stores: No.53 Queue Utilization
The capacity exists to understand every detail of your stores, the way that customers move around them, are attracted to assortment displays, are tempted into touching product and are compelled to convert their engagement into sales. An incredible journey is just beginning! No.53. “Queue Utilization” In physical stores the queuing process related to tills and in…
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75 things you should know about your stores: No.24 “Idle Time”
The capacity exists to understand every detail of your stores, the way that customers move around them, are attracted to assortment displays, are tempted into touching product and are compelled to convert their engagement into sales. An incredible journey is just beginning! No.24. “Idle Time” Just as music is defined by the silence between notes, the…
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Where is the proof for confident investment in retail store improvements and new initiatives?
Let’s face it any changes to our stores are investments. Some initiatives are clearly more of a financial investment with definite budgets and costs, but in times were retail teams are lean and schedules already full of essential tasks then sometimes investment in time, hours, days and weeks to develop and deliver something new in…
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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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Tower Power: Pinterest Gallery of retail in the Tower of London
Subsidised shadows are now just history, as the Tower of London emerges from the dark ages, leveraging the power of the past to propel its proposition into a bright new prosperous future. See the image board: Click below: RetailMeaning Pinterest: An inspirational showcase of brand new, retro, and vintage shop designs, visual displays & customer…
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Battlements to Condiments: Tower of London in Mint Condition
Where there are people, there are customers and there is the opportunity for retail. The world-wide trail of tourist destinations is opening up the potential of this phenomenon, satisfying the daily demands of its millions of open-mouthed, empty stomached, hungry, thirsty, time-starved, cash-rich customers who pass through their historical doors day-on-day. Turning a horrible…
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Is your evolving assortment making visual merchandising difficult?
Is the product range you are selling changing and expanding? Are the principles and guidelines you use to display becoming unworkable? Many brands and retailers are widening and deepening assortments in order to maximise sales opportunities from both their loyal customers, as well as to attract new customers. It makes financial sense: 43 percent…
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Fat Face Blossoms: The Brand Next Door becomes a thing of Beauty
As brands are born and breathe into life, they experience the growing pains that often make them appear unattractive and awkward in public, a sum of evolving parts learning to live together, to be a thing of beauty and harmony. There are always traits to admire, details to delight but the sum of the parts…
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Ale House Rocks: Hip-hopping impulse shopping
Famous for its half-in half-out life-size plastic cows, catching by surprise the passer-by, herding them helplessly into the green pastures of impulse grazing, the power of Ale-Hop lays in its meticulously constructed category assortment. No hollow gesture, Ale-Hop literally bursts with colour and creativity. Never have so many of so few made such a…
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Spanish Impresario: Stradivarius’ Virtuoso Performance
Stradivarius makes its first public performance in the biggest venue in town, Westfield Stratford, as the Inditex family sends forth another member making “bridgeheads” and “inroads” into the UK mainland. As with all consummate professionals Stradivarius can’t fail to impress and delight its audience as it pitches the high notes of current fashion, with…
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