Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2021

His responsibilities grew to encompass Home, Kids and Visual Merchandising before he took the CMO role in 2018. Patel added the President title in 2020 as he assumed additional responsibilities for marketing and ecommerce. We quickly adapted to the challenges the pandemic threw at us this past year.

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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. With QR codes, the conversation becomes much more dynamic, putting the power to engage in the consumer’s hands.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In Southern California, where the weather is good, we set up pop-up tents in parking lots to provide a way for customers to engage and look at new collections. Additionally, we talk to our customers often, via phone, email and text, encouraging them to come and visit our stores.

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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 Next

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Merchandising is often viewed as presenting or displaying items in a way that makes them visually appealing and desirable to shoppers. Themed window displays, dressed mannequins and beauty stands are all examples of visual merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

The retail industry is undergoing an unprecedented wave of change as global issues have affected retailer supply chains, the labor market and consumer behaviors. 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

MAY 29, 2024

Some, like Target, are expanding their footprint with larger stores, while others, such as Sprouts Farmers Market, are doubling down on the small format. The small-format store, due to space constraints alone, avoids this issue. Whole Foods was crowned the simplest brand in the U.S.

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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. The Lacek Group is an Ogilvy Experience company.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Also Miller’s Outpost [which eventually went out of business after changing its name to Anchor Blue ] had Western-style facades and wood on the walls — and they also had the cool brands, so kids at school wouldn’t make fun of me. He’s also been good about creating scarcity. For other retailers, you have to find your niche.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

In November 2022 alone, for example, Leap opened multiple stores at Simon properties in California and Florida: True Classic Tees in Los Angeles’ Del Amo Fashion Center and ThirdLove , Sugarfina and Goodlife in Florida’s Town Center at Boca Raton. “We Widen it to make your physical store as productive as possible.

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Wiser

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For brand manufacturers, retail monitoring is a critical aspect of maintaining and enhancing market presence. They provide access to a broader customer base and facilitate entry into new markets, crucial for scaling operations. The complexities of monitoring numerous retail partners, however, should not be underestimated.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Our App First member deals experience is a great example of this.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition, we converted select Asian markets to a licensing model. Champs Sports may not be one of those core banners: during 2023, Foot Locker has been “rationalizing the store base with roughly 70 Champs store closures, while at the same time investing in the ongoing fleet through nearly 200 merchandising resets,” said Dillon.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

But rather than going solo right away, True Classic partnered with retail services company Leap to operate five stores in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C. So we can see that within the top 25 markets, these are the five or 10 that are clearly where our customers are congregating. What are market rates for rents?

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Wiser

JUNE 30, 2020

In this article, we’ll look at what assortment planning is and how you can do it effectively. Beyond the merchandising itself, assortment planning also refers to optimizing a store’s visual merchandising, layout, and the placement of the products. Assortment planning doesn’t only involve in-store operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

We wanted to create a symbol that would increase consideration for Levi’s stores,” said Danny Rosenberg, Director of U.S. Retail Marketing at Levi’s in a statement. “So The Giant Jeans are on display at: Levi’s Brickell City Center in Miami; Levi’s 5 th and Broadway in Nashville, Tenn.;

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A study from marketing research company Alter Agents revealed that 77% of surveyed millennial and Gen Z shoppers shop on social platforms. It is critical for retailers to consider how they appeal to those audiences while they have the added benefit of shopper’s undivided attention in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2023

Depending on the selection of shoes displayed or the time of year, Skechers could choose different color palettes to update the look and feel of its store within a store (e.g., With the technology used for the experience, the corporate office could change the display at a moment’s notice. The flexibility was tremendous.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

This strategy underscores the importance of thoughtful content management, focusing on enhancing the viewer’s experience through clear, concise and visually coherent updates. Final Thoughts The power of digital signage as a marketing tool lies in its ability to display timely, relevant content that resonates with viewers.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 21, 2022

His mission will be to bring HRG’s resources, such as category management, space planning, visual merchandising, retail strategy, creative services, and asset management, to the pet, hardware, and beauty segments of the retail industry. WAUKESHA, Wis. Corey Paske has joined HRG as business development manager.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

This diverse group of influential men from the worlds of sports, entertainment, business and activism will promote the digital luxury platform’s marketing campaigns and product launches, create custom content for Saks’ digital channels, and attend and host both virtual and in-person events.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even visually oriented consumer-facing businesses like retail outlets often struggle needlessly to turn images into assets. Marketing professionals in the retail sector should recognize social media’s influence on public sensitivity to photographic style. Most importantly, loosen up! Crowdsource imagery from the web.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

In newer markets you need a higher level of hand-holding and [customer] education. Joyleaf has 6,000 square feet total, with a selling space of approximately 2,500 square feet ; we need that big back-of-house because we’re planning to do deliveries, so there will be a big pick-and-pack operation there.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Some CPG brands have taken risks — not just focusing on selling the literal product inside the packaging but on conveying a feeling or emotion through the use of a mascot or character, pattern, color and repetition, or even the singular use of typography — without images at all.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sometimes this is due to deliberate greenwashing, but more often it’s a problem of planning and execution, according to Christian Davies, Principal at Bergmeyer+ , the new sustainability-focused division of retail design firm Bergmeyer , operating in partnership with SMS Collaborative. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Simply serving the traditional store design paradigm is not only insufficient, it might lead down the wrong path entirely. In a word, they are unparalleled, meaning that the retail venue may not even appear to be a store at all. Luxury experiences must be singular, memorable and elevated.

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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 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.

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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 Next

MARCH 5, 2020

Insightful data at your disposal includes information about your visitors (which can be gathered through Google Analytics ) and search volume and difficulty data for key terms users might search to find your products (accessible in tools such as Ahrefs and Google Search Console ). Source high-quality visual content.

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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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