Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Target Syndrome Think about the last time you shopped at a Target store. Chances are, even if you went in to buy a bottle of glass cleaner you spent at least $50 on things you hadn’t planned on purchasing. When you look hard at a Target store you see a largely neutral box that allows the merchandise to pop.

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Retail Adventures

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Because we know that October and November were incredibly busy months, but we also know that the last 24 days of shopping before Christmas is time to kick it into high gear. They also remind shoppers of the task at hand and put them in gift giving mode. Meet with everyone for a couple of minutes in the morning and at shift changes.

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Retail Adventures

MAY 18, 2020

You can have the best product at the best prices but it’s never going to sell itself. It’s easy to forgo that basics when you are busy sanitizing the cash wrap 400 times a day, but merchandising isn’t something you can let slide. Mimic QVC and host a weekly Facebook Live shopping night that’s geared to sell product.

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Listen in to hear from Tom Vieira, Wiser’s Director of Product, In-Store, and Casey Berns, Associate Director Shopper Insights and Category Advisory Services at The Clorox Company, as they cover six store conditions consumer brands need to monitor to win at the register. We have a recording of the webinar below.

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Retail Adventures

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

There’s a lot happening at retail right now. Amazon stores, including Amazon Go, Whole Foods Market, and Amazon Fresh currently employ Amazon One , a “fast, convenient, contactless way to use your palm to pay at a store, present a loyalty card, enter a venue, or badge into work” to move shoppers quickly through checkout lines.

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Wiser

MAY 14, 2020

Visual merchandising is a powerful way to cut through the noise. When there are so many products shouting “Look at me!”, For the visual merchandiser, the job is very much a matter of starting with the architecture of the entire retail space, whether it’s a store, a website, or a mobile app. Tell a Story.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 1, 2024

Add your telephone number and web address in 10-14” white reflective vinyl letters at the center bottom of your main windows. Light your window displays at night. Remember, its job is to transition customers from whatever they were doing outside of your store and refocus them on shopping. Cross merchandise everywhere.

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Retail Adventures

MARCH 21, 2022

Leon & Lulu, and the adjacent Three Cats at Leon & Lulu , is owned by the husband-and-wife team, Mary Liz Curtin and Stephen Scannell. While Leon and Lulu are no longer with us, visitors to the store just might meet Spot and Bertie, the two pups who "work" at the store. Mary Liz at her store with Spot (left) and Bertie.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 25, 2021

Social distancing, masks, a limited number of people in your store, plexiglass shields at the cashwrap, cleaning the sales floor as necessary, and hand sanitizers will be with us for a while. BOPIS (Buy Online Pickup In Store) and curbside pickup will continue to expected standards of operation because customers love the ease of shopping.

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SGN Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

At Candle Delirium in West Hollywood, Calif., the shop’s Sales and Store Manager Brice Oates said he keeps things interesting in the 4,000-square-foot shop by changing the store’s full display by the season. The shop carries luxury, high-end candles, such as Voluspa and Nest candles. In Tucson, Ariz.,

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 25, 2023

Grocers don’t let this happen, that’s why milk is always at the back of the store. The survey also found that the type of music also matters: women shoppers prefer oldies, pop, and R&B, while men prefer to shop while listening to rock, Blues and bluegrass. And sell candy – especially chocolate – at the cashwrap.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 22, 2020

2020 Dates to Remember: This year Black Friday is on November 27, Cyber Monday is November 30, Small Business Saturday is November 28, and the biggest shopping day of the holiday season will be December 19, the Saturday before Christmas. The stores will open at 7:00 AM on Black Friday, the general opening time for the majority of its stores.

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 16, 2022

This year start your Golden Quarter planning now: 2022 Dates to Remember This year Black Friday is on November 25, Small Business Saturday is November 26, Cyber Monday is November 28, and the biggest shopping day of the holiday season will be December 17, the Saturday before Christmas. Your store must be open on Black Friday.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 27, 2022

Theme: Choose a theme for each month of the year (note: some months may have more than one theme – but not together, one at a time.) Vertical Merchandising causes the shopper to see more of the display because they look up and down at the display as well as forward. Use it to feature merchandise you want every shopper to see.

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