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The store associate of the future

365 Retail

This problem has suddenly become real and the on/offline channel split looks like it will never return to the way it was. 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. 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.

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Longchamp’s Art-Infused SoHo Store has been Redesigned with Hospitality in Mind

Retail TouchPoints

Cassegrain revealed why Longchamp chose to work again with designer Thomas Heatherwick who had done the stores original design in 2006 as well as iconic New York City public structures such as Vessel and Little Island and how together they collaboratively rethought the shopper journey in the redesigned space, which is now open to the public.