Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Food shopping is a highly personal, and sometimes emotional, experience. And because food shopping decisions align directly with consumers’ needs and preferences, food retailers have a unique opportunity to differentiate through the physical experience they offer. They are the stars of the show and, in turn, the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As consumers work to check off their holiday shopping lists, many will be flocking to physical stores. Department stores, specialty retailers and luxury brands alike will display their holiday spirit using best-in-class design and storytelling strategies to draw these shoppers in.

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VMS

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Many stakeholders I speak to inform me that business is almost at the same level as it was pre-pandemic; this is such great news to hear. Many retailers have stepped up and are pushing the boundaries in terms of window concepts and in-store visual merchandising. There is the need to get customers excited about your store.

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VMS

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Regular VMSD readers know that we recently launched our exclusive Brain Squad , which is made up of visual merchandising and store designers across the country (and beyond) who offer up industry insight that only they can provide. The huge toy displays at FAO Schwartz in New York City in the late 1960s. It was magical!

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VMS

JULY 28, 2021

As the physical retail climate has tightened across Europe (due in large measure to Covid, it makes online shopping seem a whole lot more attractive), moves appear to be afoot to counter reduced footfall. appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. On a somewhat larger scale and in the U.K.,

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The shopping mall’s identity crisis has been an oft-discussed topic in the retail industry. Even beforethe pandemic, the narrative focused on how malls were navigating the rise in online shopping and the associated fall in foot traffic. RTP: What is the next big trend in developing an omnichannel shopping mall experience?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

We’re trying to keep that customer over 40, but we’re trying to go back to our younger customer as well,” Preis said during her session at CommerceNext’s Ecommerce Growth Show , held June 20-21 in New York City. We are not a department store, so we’re not forced into merchandising certain product categories together,” Preis explained.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

but the company also has worked with its portfolio of luxury clients on a range of new store designs and experiences. Based on the innovation that’s evident in all these projects, Sterling Plenert , Principal at Arcadis, believes the broader industry has a lot to learn from luxury players.

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This is going to seem not-so glamorous, but one of my favorite retail memories was the glass candy counter at a G.C. Murphy’s store. Even at a young age, I was fascinated with how wonderful everything looked under the glass and lights. We would always look at all the retail window displays along State Street and Michigan Ave.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Senior Retail Consultant at Univers Retail | Published author | Visiting lecturer. Introduction Significance of Store Windows in Retail Retail displays evolved from the simplicity of handwritten signs strategically positioned both inside and outside stores during the 1800s. Ghalia BOUSTANI.

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Retail Adventures

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Photo Cred: Untapped New York by Michelle Young During the recent torrential rains in New York City my sister and I visited Bergdorf Goodman, a NYC landmark department store that is famous for designer clothing and accessories. I used to visit Bergdorf’s with my mother when I was little, she loved that store so we were there a lot.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 11, 2022

At a glittering awards celebration in London, the VM & Display Awards winners were announced. Suppliers and retailers gathered at the Leonardo Hotel St Pauls to honour the very best in retail visual merchandising and display. Waitrose – Shop in Shop. BEST WINDOW/S IN A LARGE INDEPENDENT DEPARTMENT STORE.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

We are still confidently set for a £400m profit at the end of the plan and clearly, the sooner and the more progress we make over the next few years, the sooner we’ll be back to bonus but we’re not setting a specific timeline today,” White said. She declined to set a timeframe for when the bonus would be reinstated. “We

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VMS

APRIL 28, 2021

While Macy’s still faces the challenges that have been plaguing department stores and shopping malls for the last 10-15 years, it appears that the company has found some momentum to build on with a post-pandemic future in sight. Read more at RetailDive. appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

When the high-end retailer charged TPG Architecture (New York) with a collaborative effort with their in-house design team to redesign its existing store in the Perisur Mall, located in the southern suburbs of Mexico City, the mandate presented was clear and consistent. In homage to Wyman, the store café is called Café Lance.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But we’re now starting to see that many changes to the in-store shopping experience borne out of necessity during the pandemic’s darkest days are having a lasting, positive effect,” said OnQ CEO Paul Chapuis. The increased use of QR codes at retail is a great example of a pandemic-driven change that’s here to stay.

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VMS

JULY 7, 2021

Patel says, “I’m honored to continue the great legacy of Belk … We quickly adapted to the challenges the pandemic threw at us this past year. I’m proud of our team’s ability to stay focused on what really matters to our customers – having the best products and making their shopping experience safe and seamless.

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VMS

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Yes, right out of school I was fortunate to work for a designer that had his start as a visual merchandiser for a large department store in Detroit. My first job in the retail design segment was with the DeBartolo Company who at the time was the largest shopping mall developer in the world. Big question!

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VMS

AUGUST 11, 2021

At a national level, back-to-school shopping is well underway, impacting a number of sectors as anticipated in our forecast. Return of the In-Store Shopper: Brick-and-mortar browsing is making its return, with in-stores sales making up 81.9% July numbers reflect a return to the store. compared to July 2020.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 12, 2024

The upmarket retailer should be the big festive destination, for if people can’t treat themselves at Christmas, when can they? “That just demonstrates that customers are beginning to look to us in our food business for a bigger, fuller shop,” Machin says. This is a relatively new phenomenon for M&S.

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VMS

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Using Capture Services On-Demand, Matterport Pro2 cameras, or the Matterport Smartphone app, retail customers are creating virtual showrooms, curating shoppable digital experiences with e-commerce integration, and making store operations more efficient. Harrods Uses Matterport Capture Services to Create Virtual Showroom for Consumers.

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

IRDC was also co-located with the Shop! 25 – a welcome reception hosted by IRDC Supporting Sponsor Piddi Design in the 402 Lobby Bar at the host hotel – where attendees from both conferences were able to meet and mingle. You can read more about this year’s Shop! Ideation at shopassociation.org.).

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VMS

JULY 22, 2021

When the high-end retailer charged TPG Architecture (New York) with a collaborative effort with their in-house design team to redesign its existing store in the Perisur Mall, located in the southern suburbs of Mexico City, the mandate presented was clear and consistent. In homage to Wyman, the store café is called Café Lance.

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VMS

AUGUST 31, 2021

The potholes are easy to see and can usually be avoided or at least mitigated with proper planning. The first and seemingly most effective is to have an agreement with a department store for sales space on their floor. The second, and on its face, riskier, is to open their own store location.

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VMS

MAY 12, 2021

When was the last time you saw someone from a department store talking about how they have increased the recycling of cardboard and packaging, or implemented in-store signage touting these facts? According to the report, nearly six in 10 consumers were willing to change their shopping habits to reduce environmental impact.

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VMS

DECEMBER 23, 2021

(PRESS RELEASE) In the wake of the pandemic, consumer shopping behaviors have shifted. The latest example is the new Citizen Watch shop in a major Herald Square department store in New York City, which recently installed one of the world’s first consumer-facing augmented reality product display cases. The Process.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

The shop-in-shop retail approach can yield benefits for both the host retailer and the hosted brand, but there are certainly challenges to entering into this type of partnership. Would standing out or blending within the host environment drive the most traffic to the shop-in-shop? Making Space for a Shop-in-Shop Partner.

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V Count

JANUARY 9, 2023

The event is home to numerous retailers such as department stores, technology companies, chain restaurants, grocery stores, multi-level marketing companies, and independent retailers. Make sure to visit V-Count’s booth (Booth 4069) at NRF 2023!

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Retail Geek

JULY 30, 2021

2:31] Doing a dramatic story design and so this Chelsea store is that store and I wanted to check out how he’s changed it from what we traditionally think of as a bit Bath and Beyond and it is. Um and you know it’s usually a cluttered mess and so this store. It just it doesn’t seem like they’ve. [6:00]

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VMS

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, well before high-end shops and boutiques graced the iconic retail corridors of Fifth Avenue, Champs-Élysées and Via Monte Napoleone, consumerism and desire became a driving force in Western culture. This illustration from an early 1900s issue is captioned, “The window gazer at work.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Now that American retailers are shuttering stores and losing billions of dollars because of shrink, it is time for a sharper focus on the “journey” of another group entirely — retail criminals. Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too.

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VMS

APRIL 7, 2021

Nominated by their peers, these multidisciplinary designers, architects and visual merchandisers have demonstrated a dedication to design excellence as well as a commitment to advance the customer experience at retail in ways we are only beginning to imagine. She is also responsible for working on shop-in-shops.

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Retail Adventures

JANUARY 27, 2022

While we can’t make the days longer, we can help with the tools necessary to help you plan your visual merchandising, the big part of your store that keeps shoppers interested. 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.)

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Retail Adventures

AUGUST 3, 2020

When a store is well merchandised add-on sales become a common occurrence. The average Target store isn't fancy, it's really just a big box lined with basic gondolas. But what they do with the merchandise on those gondolas is magic. At Target it's not about the fixtures or the décor, the product is the star.

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VMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the summer, it was reported to be launching its own physical department stores, high on robots and other technology. Much of it is sitting in ships stacking up at various U.S. Store shelves are thinly stocked and on-time delivery is becoming a unicorn. We’re talking billions. And Christmas is coming! Advertisement.

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