Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

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Supermarket Discount Store Store Layout Returns 264

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Online sales, favoured during lockdowns, might have been expected to decrease as life returned to normal, however, the research showed the trend endured, accounting for 3 per cent of total sales in 2019 to 6 per cent in 2021. While the lines are blurring between sports and fashion, this also questions the store layout.”.

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Department Stores Store Layout Fashion Returns 130

Wiser

JANUARY 18, 2019

To learn more about the changes consumers are looking for in the coming year, Wiser has surveyed over 2,400 of our mobile app users about their 2019 shopping preferences. Both in-store and online retail is constantly changing as new trends and technologies are introduced to the market. 2019 Shopping Trends.

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Comparison Shopping Shipping Store Layout Consumer 68

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2020

Long, uniform aisles with tall, tightly packed shelves was, for a long time, the standard model for in-store retailing. For me, a store layout, just like an e-Commerce web site layout, should be customer-centric at its heart. Adding layers to enhance service, ease and value can be extremely powerful.

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Shopping Store Layout Consumer Checkout 200

I Vend

MARCH 9, 2022

After two years of lockdowns and closed stores, restrictions seem to be over in many countries. Shoppers are returning to retail stores in their droves – where lockdown saw the rapid rise of online purchasing, industry experts are now forecasting a similar upward trajectory for brick and mortar shopping.

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Fashion Point of Sale Customer Experience Returns 98

Theatro

JANUARY 25, 2023

The survey found that many Americans believe the quality of the in-store experience has declined since 2019—the last year before the Covid lockdowns that began in March 2020. The remaining respondents (38%) said they shopped in-store about the same amount today as before Covid.

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Customer Experience Shopping Consumer Store Layout 82

Retail Focus

AUGUST 10, 2021

Even with the vaccine rollout well underway and lockdown now behind us, shoppers are yet to return to the high street in the same numbers. Footfall was down by one third in July on the same month in 2019, according to the British Retail Consortium. High street stalwarts struggled or, in the case of Debenhams , collapsed.

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Customer Experience Store Layout Returns Consumer 246