Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

Foot Locker has unveiled its new store format, which includes a communal sneaker try-on area to facilitate “sneaker culture” conversations and technology that provides store associates with omnichannel inventory availability data. The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J.,

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Bright idea Retailers can start by looking at their stores and what they can change to have an almost immediate impact on sustainability. Sara Drawwater, marketing director at Shoplight, said that sustainable retail benefits the environment and aligns with consumer expectations, social responsibility and economic viability.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apps that allow shoppers to preview and locate in-store inventory, do virtual try-ons, identify sales and cash in on personalized promotions and rewards are popular. In fact, most consumers (61%) report that they consider their smartphone “very important” while shopping in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

Sustainability is good for business, and architects and designers are critical advisors in retailers’ trajectories toward a more sustainable future through the design process of physical locations. To lead by example, old or retired products can be used as a “building” material or for visual merchandising displays.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

Dick’s plans to open a total of 16 50K stores in 2024, consisting of 12 relocations or remodels and four new stores. Dick’s also will open eight new House of Sport locations in 2024, consisting of seven relocations/conversions and one new store at Boston’s Prudential Center.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

These benefits are just a few reasons why “luxury retailers are the ones that have embraced pop-ups the most” in recent years, according to Sterling Plenert, SVP at CallisonRTKL in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Another of their best features is that they’re agile and allow retailers to try out new locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

Best Buy closed 24 stores in FY 2024 and plans to close 10 to 15 in FY 2025. While the retailer will be focused on improving existing store experiences at scale moving forward, Best Buy is planning to “open a few additional outlet centers and new formats to continue to test two important concepts,” said Barry.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

We’re at the very start of the retail media age with PwC forecasting retail media will grow from $850 million to $2.14 The rise of screens The big grocers dipped their toes with front-of-store screens and now they are set to proliferate. Prepare for a digitally-led re-imagining of the store experience. So what can we expect?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Accomplishing this feat requires more than the familiar mantra of right product, right price, right location and right time: it requires an emotional connection via storytelling, nostalgia and a sense of brand history , according to Ryan Harmon, President and Chief Creative Officer of Zeitgeist Design & Production.

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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. And when Tiffany & Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve taken that kind of traditional approach to apparel and modernized it with big TVs and big ads playing, but there’s also a vintage look and feel expressed in the fonts we use and things in the stores from the 1970s and 1980s. Working with Leap] allowed us to learn that high-traffic malls are better locations for us.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Depending on your location or target demographic, both options can be very valuable for your customers. His focus on content management and digital signage content strategy has been an essential aspect of his role at Spectrio. Other examples of live media include real-time weather feeds and traffic updates.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2022

Stores still need traditional shop-ability: having the right mix of products, promotions, prices and people — but also simple factors like ease of entering the store, browsing, trying on items, all the way through to completing the purchase at the cashwrap.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

“Our men’s business has experienced significant growth over the past several years, and Saks continues to be the destination that shoppers look to for the latest in men’s luxury fashion,” said Tracy Margolies, Chief Merchandising Officer at Saks in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

JOANN stores also sell individual “ingredients,” but the end product is a decoupage photo album cover or a spooky handmade Halloween costume rather than a beef stew. Everything a customer comes in to us to buy is a component to make something,” said Christopher DiTullio, Chief Customer Officer at JOANN in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Learn what metadata can be included with your photos and how it can be leveraged (location for mapping, voice audio annotation in the field, etc.). It’s relatable in ways that more sophisticated sales imagery isn’t, and now that your target demographic is so adept at image-making themselves, they can smell marketing BS a mile away.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The intersections between where we eat, work, live and shop are where the magic of an experience unfolds and where we can truly elevate the experience of customers through meaningful engagement and entertainment,” said James Farnell, Partner and Retail Practice Leader at Little.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

It’s seamless and can reorient around a customer’s changing needs, sometimes at a moment’s notice. . Customers (or should I say “shoppers”) don’t look at different channels. Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? Shoppers look at a retailer and engage how, when, why and where they want to. Fulfillment.

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365 Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

Pricer, the leading in-store automation and communication solutions, will showcase new connected stores solutions at the Retail Technology Show , taking place at London’s Olympia on 24 & 25 April, 2024. Our customers need scalable and reliable tools to build their business for the future.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Making In-Store Shopping More Convenient with Endless Aisles Consumers are already familiar with QR codes — they scan QR codes to access restaurant menus, enter contests, contact support, redeem rewards and so much more. Let QR codes lead you into the future of retail — one scan at a time.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

However, more risk-averse shoplifters (Sheepish Teens and Disgruntled Employees) could be deterred by lower shelves, sign-free windows or panopticon-like layouts in which people feel watched at all times. In other cases, crime is more intense (see the viral videos of thefts at downtown drug and luxury department stores).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Get More Creative with Available Space Instead of maxing out the number of tables in a restaurant or rooms in a hotel, many of today’s hospitality operators are striving to be more creative with the square footage at their disposal. Certain locations even boast their own outdoor athletic fields.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2024

That concept — carefully curating brands and creating a store that’s part selling space, part experiential destination — is being carried on by the brand’s latest iteration, Fred Segal Home. That’s what makes it exclusive and special, and our staff is great at communicating with the customers; they’re very knowledgeable.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

Now is the time to start integrating the changes we didn’t expect to see in futuristic retail stores. This means reinvention through automation, better in-store data collection and more engaging in-store experiences, in order to reignite business, while at the same time meeting the changing needs of our new world.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Each store is designed to deliver a more modern shopping experience and improve the lives of our associates and customers from the moment they step into the new space. In addition to exteriors and interiors refreshed with new paint, new signs and additional shopping carts, the remodeled locations also are more spacious.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

22, 2023, the collection will feature more than 200 newly designed jewelry and accessories items at prices starting at $15 , with the majority of items priced under $40. Target stores in Edina, Minn., Kendra Scott is known for creating communities and for making philanthropy an integral part of its operations. “We

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