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The store associate of the future

365 Retail

In 2006, the Office for National Statistics put online sales as a percentage of total retail sales at under 5% but now shows that figure has risen to just under 30% in April 2021. Fashion brand Kooples for instance has improved visual merchandising and promotions compliance from 33 to by 90%. Store communications.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

These innovations were the sparks that led to the inception of the visual merchandising and store design industries. And while these megastores were in their seminal stages, nobody quite knew what to do with them and the unending mountain of merchandise sitting under their roofs. As such, visual merchandising was born.