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What Bapcor can learn from Bain’s long track record of PE bids

Inside Retail

Consumer confidence levels over the next 18 months will be crucial to the future of financially embroiled and not-so-financially embroiled businesses within the retail industry. The recent success of fast-food chain Guzman y Gomez’s IPO could further attest to food retail being exempt from decreased discretionary spending slumps.

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Retail Intelligence: How Hard-Fought Lessons From The Shop Floor Can Give E-Commerce Businesses An Edge

Retail TouchPoints

For me, a store layout, just like an e-Commerce web site layout, should be customer-centric at its heart. When I was designing floor plans, we made a point of creating spacious environments where consumers could experience products in a way that felt personal and made the products relevant to their own lives.

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How US$4bn activewear brand Vuori builds community through bricks-and-mortar

Inside Retail

The direct-to-consumer brand was founded by Joe Kudla in 2014. In 2018, the company delved into the women’s athletic apparel sector, and by late 2021, its value had reached US$4 billion, after it received US$400 million in venture funding from SoftBank Investment Advisors and Trinity West Venture.

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Beyond gender: How Lego’s push for ‘inclusive play’ reflects social change

Inside Retail

A new California law will require retailers with over 500 employees to offer a “reasonable” amount of kids products in a gender-neutral section in stores by 2024, or face fines of $500 per store. This is a major shift from the status quo, according to Jana Bowden, a consumer psychology expert at Macquarie University Business School.

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In retail, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to accessibility

Inside Retail

But is the retail industry really living up to the promise of creating products that all consumers, with a variety of physical, visual, and neurological needs, can use? The reality is that there is no one example of what a disabled consumer looks like. This will enhance the shopping experience for all consumers,” Mohammadian explained.

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The Benefits of Subjective In-Aisle Data Collection

Wiser

As retail moves past the first part of 2018, there seems to be a rapidly growing focus on shopper sentiment. Time and again we’ve seen that the in-aisle feedback varies significantly for our consumer electronics, CPG, and apparel clients, and we chalk it up to the in-store component making all the difference. .

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The Global State of Autonomous Stores

365 Retail

In a highly competitive global retail landscape, autonomous stores are an emerging force that addresses changing consumer behaviours, reduces operational costs, improves profitability, and powers revenue growth strategies. The new business models supported by autonomous capabilities provide a compelling value proposition for consumers.