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Aldi launches Corner Store in convenience push

Inside Retail

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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How Vans Transformed its Visual Merchandising with ‘Digital-First’ Processes

Retail TouchPoints

Typically, visual merchandisers (VMs) tend to work in Excel spreadsheets — a manual, time-consuming process that makes it difficult for store employees to fully visualize the store layout. Using the IWD Display solution, VMs can build out 3D models of Vans’ stores to use for monthly and seasonal planning.

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Shoppers’ In-Store and Online Expectations for 2019

Wiser

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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Aldi at 35: How the German discounter has disrupted the UK grocery sector

Retail Gazette

Simple store layouts During Aldis early days, its supermarkets were designed with simplicity and efficiency in mind, designed to create a convenient shopping experience. Its stores now feature wider and brighter aisles, along with clearer signage and a wider variety of food and non-food products available.

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Post Covid, department stores are refocusing their menswear offer

Inside Retail

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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Majestic Wine invests £1m in store estate expansion

Retail Gazette

Related Story Naked Wines unveils new credit facility as CFO departs 09/07/2024 x 10:14 AM The new stores opened days after Majestic unveiled its newly refurbished shops in Bearsden and Stratford-upon-Avon, which re-opened on Saturday, with both sites featuring new shelving units and a new store layout.

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Rebel MD Gary Williams on taking experiential retail to the next level

Inside Retail

Focus on ‘her’ Williams initiated the RCX project shortly after joining Rebel in 2019. The first RCX store, designed in partnership with Sydney-based retail agency The General Store, opened at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre in March 2020.