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Al-Jawad Pike creates marble "immersive experience" for APL's Soho flagship in NYC

Dezeen

Five vanity rooms are each clad in distinctive coloured onyx or marble A teardrop-shaped column is located in the centre of the store, while boulder-like plinths positioned around the space are used for product displays. The textured display plinths were developed with a bespoke fabricator based in New York, who CNC-carved the forms.

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Key Tips for Improving Customer Experience in Your Store Location

365 Retail

Enhancing the customer experience can have a real impact on the profitability of a store location, but what could be done to this end? An essential aspect of creating the perfect customer experience is the atmosphere of your location. Facilitating a positive work culture within your location is one way to achieve this.

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How Hydra Health is Transforming the Hospital Gift Shop

Retail TouchPoints

Stores are curated and merchandised to reflect a high-end boutique or spa. Our goal is that, when people walk into our stores, they know they’re in a non-clinical space, ” Kloor said. “We We design our stores so that they could fit in downtown Manhattan or a cute boutique area; we do not follow the hospital design guidelines.”

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Rebel MD Gary Williams on taking experiential retail to the next level

Inside Retail

Since then, Rebel and The General Store have opened a further 18 RCX stores across the country, including the latest location at Emporium Melbourne. With each new RCX store, Rebel has incorporated lessons learned from previous iterations. It’s not an easy nut to crack.

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How Vans Transformed its Visual Merchandising with ‘Digital-First’ Processes

Retail TouchPoints

Typically, visual merchandisers (VMs) tend to work in Excel spreadsheets — a manual, time-consuming process that makes it difficult for store employees to fully visualize the store layout. Using the IWD Display solution, VMs can build out 3D models of Vans’ stores to use for monthly and seasonal planning.

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Crafting luxury brand narratives through popup stores

Retail Focus

Brands could think about seven main points that help in crafting pop-up stores’ brand narratives : Aligning the brand with a store design: Ensuring that the popup store design aligns with the brand’s aesthetics and personality. The location of a pop-up store corresponds to the brand’s luxurious positioning.

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Why local retail communities are important, and how retail design can encourage community retailing.

Retail Focus

Traditionally, community retailing initiatives included local farmers’ markets, boutique stores hosting art exhibitions or workshops, or retailers supporting neighborhood cleanup campaigns. These can include comfortable seats, nice lighting and well-designed store layouts.