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5 Essential Tips for Effective Variety Store Design

Small Biz Trends

Organize the store into themed zones to enhance customer navigation and promote cross-merchandising opportunities. Prioritize sustainable materials in both store fixtures and visual merchandising to appeal to eco-conscious consumers and support brand loyalty. What Are the Important Elements of Store Design?

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Six Steps to Stronger Holiday Sales

Retail Adventures

Cross-merchandise products to increase your average sale. You should also decide now where holiday returns will be processed: at the checkout or at a separate table. Most gift card recipients require more than one trip to the store to redeem them. MASTER MARKDOWNS Plan now for your post-holiday markdowns.

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The Silent Salesperson: 5 Visual Merchandising Tricks to Boost Basket Size

CJ Retail Solutions

For example, if you’re in a grocery store, you might notice that snacks are often placed near checkout counters. By incorporating sensory elements into their visual merchandising strategies, retailers can create immersive environments that resonate with you on multiple levels.

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6 Ways to Increase Impulse Buys: Online and In-Store

Wiser

This is probably one of the biggest and most effective tools to get shoppers to spend more—how you design your store, your shelves, and your checkout aisles. Get a bunch of low-priced options right by checkout. 2: Cross-merchandising. Another smart option for physical retailers is to lean into cross-merchandising.

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How to Use Fixtures to Direct Traffic Flow

Independent Retailer

Ideal for small objects such as toiletries, socks, gloves, earbuds, and bath sets, acrylic slatwall trays offer a wonderful cross-merchandising opportunity to highlight smaller products that would otherwise be passed up or shuffled around in the mix of your store. Acrylic Slatwall Trays.

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Retail Ready: Setting Your Sales Floor to Sell!

Retail Adventures

Create a focal point using small nesting tables that are cross-merchandised with attractive groupings of related products. These displays, called merchandise outposts, allow you to cross-merchandise throughout your sales floor. Tell a story. Display small, high profit, impulse items on and around the cash wrap.

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Enhancing the Shopper Experience!

Retail Adventures

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. Hello double duty!