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Fern Hill Market: A Sip of Small Town Shopping

Retail Adventures

She also participates in an annual Vintage Shop Hop, a self-guided road trip to vintage shops, antique stores and boutiques, all located within driving distance of her store. When your store is located in a house each room has its own decompression zone and each room needs its own speed bump display. She buys to standout.

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What is Visual Merchandising?

Wiser

It’s simpler for them to keep their heads down and quickly locate the product they came in for. The purpose of visual merchandising is to draw in and engage customers, so that they might make purchases. Most brands and retailers have some degree of visual merchandising already. Find Opportunities to Cross-Merchandise.

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Trends in Toys and Gifts at Baby Stores

SGN Magazine

To get shoppers who may have stopped in for an apparel item interesting in adding a toy or gift to their purchase, Banta again focused on price point. The nipple balm I keep over by the kids’ clothes, and I cross-merchandise them between our maternity clothing side and children’s clothing.”.

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What is Visual Merchandising?

Wiser

Most brands and retailers have some degree of visual merchandising already. But if you’re looking to improve yours, how can you start applying different merchandising techniques to your point-of-sale locations? In this section, we’ll consider a few types of visual merchandising and how they can be used. Mannequins.

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Retail Ready: Setting Your Sales Floor to Sell!

Retail Adventures

These things start outside of your front door – sometimes even in the parking lot if your store is free-standing or located in a strip center – and continue throughout the sales floor. Located center stage, speed bumps slow shoppers down and set the tone for what they can expect to find as they browse the sales floor. Tell a story.

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The Eclectic World of Leon & Lulu

Retail Adventures

The word “eclectic” has been used to describe all sorts of things but perhaps its best use is to describe Leon & Lulu , Mary Liz Curtin’s wonderfully kinetic store located in Clawson, Michigan. Located in the adjacent former Clawson movie theater, the building was a derelict mess. Everything had to be renovated and restored.

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[Webinar] Retail Post-Pandemic: 6 Store Conditions Consumer Brands Need to Monitor to Win at the Register

Wiser

While some retail locations are shutting down, others are surviving. It might be available, but is the correct display in the correct location in the correct number of stores that’s been agreed upon? Location and inventory first and foremost. We can control to some extent location and inventory. Others are thriving.

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