Category: store layout
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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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Claiming the Wild Westfield: New Territories for TKMaxx
The TKMaxx expansion railroad shows no sign of slowing, let alone hitting the buffers, as its combination of fashion brands, low prices and dynamic assortment changes finds wider appeal and acceptance within the style sensitive streets of London, and now the expansive plains and diverse demographics of Westfield Stratford. Whilst the unpredictability of the…
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Foyles Literary Statement: Where Actions Speak Louder than Words
On a street synonymous with literature a new chapter has been written in the tumultuous tale of the traditional bookstore. Foyles may have physically moved only metres, but as a concept it has made a journey that brings it into a new century and a completely different world. No more so than in the…
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Pharmasuckables: Happy Pills for your Retail Tills
In a Barcelona backstreet no wider than a hospital cubicle, Happy Pills provides the confectionary cure for tired tourists and sickly shoppers. An antidote for a sterile sweet sector, Happy Pills combines a cute brand, acid whit, pristine packaging and a whole new perspective on pic ‘n’ mix. The passing pedestrian can see this is…
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