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What’s driving the transformation of China’s department stores?

Inside Retail

Once seen as a staple of urban retail, department stores in China are undergoing a transformative reinvention. With malls, e-commerce giants, and niche retailers vying for consumer attention, these legacy institutions must reimagine their purpose in an increasingly digital and experience-driven retail environment.

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How Rising Prices Shape Consumer Behavior

Retail Focus

Inflation has an impact on nearly every aspect of the economy, including raw material costs, wages, transportation, and, ultimately, the prices consumers pay for goods and services. Rising costs and shifts in consumer behaviors have a significant impact on the retail industry.

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Post Covid, department stores are refocusing their menswear offer

Inside Retail

Department stores globally are adjusting their product offer to reflect rapid changes in the menswear category as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the category wears off. But last year menswear rebounded to its pre-pandemic levels, reaching on average 14 per cent of total department-store sales.

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Transforming Retail Spaces for Today’s Generation of Shoppers

Retail TouchPoints

With this, retailers are designing store layouts with dedicated areas to showcase new and different products for varying tastes and trends, creating an ever-changing experience for shoppers. Major department stores are leaning toward repurposing and reskinning existing fixtures, saving costs and minimizing environmental impact.

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Store Reopenings: Why Retailers Must Go Above And Beyond To Bring Shoppers Back

Retail TouchPoints

A survey by MySizeID found that: 49% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for apparel ; 33% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for cosmetics ; and 18% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for shoes. of consumers say they will feel most comfortable shopping at standalone specialty retail stores.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too. That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras?

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To Experience the Future of Retail, You’ll Want to Go to the Store

Retail TouchPoints

Over the past three years, most of us have done a lot more shopping online, so it’s easy to forget that while ecommerce is still growing, most retail commerce still happens in stores. That means brick-and-mortar is still going strong, and not just because consumers are eager to get out of the house again.