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REI Shutters Experiences Business that was Losing Millions Annually, Cuts 400+ Jobs

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Even at our peak in 2019 our best year for Experiences ever we did not generate a profit. REI also will continue to enhance both the online and in-store customer experience with investments in areas including personalization and visual merchandising. Experiences served 40,000 customers in 2024 less than 0.4%

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Wayfair to Continue Large-Format Expansion with 2026 Atlanta Store Opening

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Wayfair credits the Wilmette store with a nice sales bump, noting that following the stores opening, contributing sales from the state of Illinois grew more than 15% faster than the U.S. Wayfair had opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar store in May 2019 at Massachusetts Natick Mall after testing the waters with pop-up locations.

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

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Now, brands like Vans are embedding these short-term solutions into their day-to-day workflows as they strive to optimize the flow and experience of the shoe and apparel retailer’s 500+ stores in North America. Vans has increased the efficiency workflow for its visual merchandising and monthly floorset process using solutions from IWD.

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Showfields Files for Bankruptcy Protection as it Seeks to Reorganize

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The unique retailer, which houses brands’ products for a fee and rotates its assortment every few months, closed its Showfields Miami location in July 2023 and its Manhattan store, Showfields NoHo , in September. Stores in the Washington, D.C. Here’s a 2019 video interview with Showfields CEO Tal Zvi Nathanel.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

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Bed Bath & Beyond traditionally is a pretty chaotic treasure hunt so very hard to find your way around people complain that they get lost and can’t find an exit the, the lines of sight in a Bed Bath & Beyond or horrific so they stack product to the roof so you can’t see very far in any direction in the store.