Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2025

A third location is slated to open at Mall of the Emirates later this summer. In January 2025 Marquee Brands added Laura Ashley to its portfolio of consumer brands, which includes Destination Maternity, Sur La Table, BCBG and Dakine. In March 2024 Martha Stewart collaborated with Tractor Supply to promote her Garden Apparel line.

Apparel

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Bath & Body Works has introduced its new Gingham+ store design in more than 15 locations, including stores in South Korea, Los Angeles and Texas, and plans to continue rolling out the refreshed aesthetic in a majority of its planned U.S. and Canada as well as 525+ international franchised locations. store openings going forward.

Planning

Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2025

Kepler Analytics’ financial year 25 report states that Australian retailers achieved 2 per cent year-on-year growth in both store traffic and sales, which is a fairly meaningful turnaround after what was a flat financial year 24 marked by declining revenue and low consumer confidence. Visual merchandising is solid. I love that.

Visual Merchandising

Wiser

MAY 12, 2025

In the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) industry, seasonal retail displays are planned months in advanceoften 8 to 9 months before they hit store floors. front-of-store vs. seasonal aisle) Timing and compliance expectations Visual merchandising standards Execution quality is highly dependent on store type and visit frequency.

Planning

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As a consumer, I wanted something that spoke to me pieces that felt timeless and enduring, yet were modern and easy to wear. Up until now, our [direct-to-consumer] DTC [offering] has been exclusively digital, so it felt like the right moment to meet customers in person and engage with them directly. And was this intentional?

Fashion

Small Biz Trends

JULY 23, 2025

Prioritize sustainable materials in both store fixtures and visual merchandising to appeal to eco-conscious consumers and support brand loyalty. Up to 90% of consumers’ first impressions are based on color, so warm colors like red and orange can stimulate urgency, driving impulse purchases.

Visual Merchandising

Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2025

Leverage Visual Merchandising: Use eye-catching displays and consistent branding to attract customers and enhance their shopping experience, ultimately driving impulse purchases. Strategic placement of merchandise influences how shoppers interact with your products, improving overall shopping experiences.

Visual Merchandising

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Another big part of the store design is its creative use of space to visually merchandise all of Frank Greens products, and for Troon, discovery is everything. The store’s structure and design perfectly mirror the brand’s obsession with function and style. And who’s better to do that than ourselves?, concluded Young.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Warby Parker is one of the few direct-to-consumer (DTC) unicorns that has successfully evolved into a profitable omnichannel business — and its distinct store design and shopper experience is a big reason why. Now, with more than 270 locations across the U.S. in New York City, by applying a new gallery concept. Designing the Greene St.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Additionally, several retailers are bucking the conventional wisdom of supermarkets seeking the widest possible customer base and instead are creating stores designed to appeal to specific ethnic or national groups via merchandise choices and even stores’ design.

Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

Princess Polly positions itself right in the center of the Gen Z zeitgeist, and its newest physical location also has surrounded itself with young brands. it found that consumers were about a year or two behind the trend cycles in Australia, which gave Princess Polly the perfect edge to not just predict but lead in key fashion trends.

Fashion

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2025

The power of social media influencers is impossible to ignore in today’s digital age, with over half of Gen Z using TikTok as their go-to search engine and main source for shopping inspiration, largely because of the visual format of its results. This presents a major opportunity for retailers.

Boutique

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 17, 2025

By understanding the psychology behind consumer behavior, you can design your store layout to capitalize on these tendencies. Utilize visual merchandising techniques to highlight key products and draw attention to special promotions or new arrivals. Moreover, a strategic product layout can help you maximize your sales potential.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

Kato-Yokoyama: A lot of retailers are looking at their physical footprint in terms of things like the accessibility of transit and whether people have the ability to walk to the location. When we do master planning, were looking at the makeup of transportation and how it relates to malls or other types of retail venues.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

The location also will serve as a drop-off point for users of Fanatics Collect, the collectibles marketplace Fanatics launched in June 2024. The Regent Street store also will feature a state-of-the-art breaking studio (for live and taped openings of card packs), interactive customer education touch points and a personal card creation suite.

Location

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 22, 2025

Notable Locations New York City, NY : Features an array of vintage shops in areas like the East Village and Williamsburg, enabling small businesses to thrive amid iconic street art and vibrant culture. Visual merchandising techniques highlight the store’s unique products while creating inviting spaces for customers.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2025

After years of Marie Kondo-esque simplicity, the retail design era of “back-to-basics” aesthetics defined by neutral palettes and sleek, pared-back interiors is quickly falling out of favor amongst consumers demanding more vibrant and immersive spaces.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2025

location in Manhattans financial district. Printemps is one of the oldest department stores in the world, yet most Americans have never heard the name, much less know how to pronounce it. That all changed in March when the French luxury retail chain opened its first U.S.

Department Stores

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 23, 2025

Collecting and analyzing data is essential for retailers to make informed decisions and enhance visual merchandising. Successful retailers are using data-driven decisions to stay ahead in the market, and the future of retail merchandising lies in data analytics. What are the benefits of using analytics in retail merchandising?

Visual Merchandising

Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2025

We see the incredible consumer response and appetite for our home products. I’m in the depths with our creative team too, planning shoots, picking talent and locations, reviewing concepts, and I still personally approve every model we work with, even for the smallest shoots. One of my favourite things is working with our design team.

Fashion

Retail Gazette

JUNE 13, 2025

The move will speed up the retailer’s store closure programme which has so far been relying on leases expiring to pull out of the location. He points out that in some cases this left Poundland with a “doubling up of representation in those locations” and additional lease liabilities.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2025

Though variations still exist from country to country, and even between organizations, as to the conditions the term “neurodivergence” encompasses, all data, regardless of location or institute, comes back with this same resounding result: 1 in 5 people in the world can be considered neurodivergent A Growing yet Under-Considered Population This number (..)

Department Stores

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2025

What Separates Thriving Retailers from Struggling Ones Todays successful retailers have recognized that consumers dont think in channels: They expect a unified experience whether theyre shopping online or in a brick-and-mortar store. Ring thrives on creating a positive customer experience along every touch point of SCAYLEs value chain.

Social Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Image courtesy Haleon Retailers also use pop-ups as testing grounds for permanent brick-and-mortar locations, as Kizik and design firm MG2 did with the retailers NYC pop-up in 2024. Pop-up stores also can put down roots as a permanent retail location, as Revolve Group did in January 2025 following its successful pop-up at LAs The Grove.

Fashion

VMS

JUNE 19, 2025

With a presence in 120-plus countries, Tramontina set up shop in the Mall of Africa, located in Midrand, in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Working with the design team of KT | Kawahara Takano Business Architecture, São Paulo, the brand unveiled its new concept, the Tstore Tramontina.

Promotions

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Vans has increased the efficiency workflow for its visual merchandising and monthly floorset process using solutions from IWD. Our biggest challenge over the past year has been adapting our floorset process digitally,” said Paul Rupert, Visual Merchandising Manager for Elevated Retail at Vans in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

Visual Merchandising

Wiser

MAY 14, 2020

This is where visual merchandising comes into play. What is Visual Merchandising? Visual merchandising is the practice of designing and displaying merchandise in a retail setting with the goal of engaging shoppers and boosting sales. The Importance of Strong Visual Merchandising.

Visual Merchandising

Wiser

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This is where visual merchandising comes into play. What is Visual Merchandising? Visual merchandising is the practice of designing and displaying merchandise in a retail setting with the goal of engaging shoppers and boosting sales. The Importance of Strong Visual Merchandising.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2023

looked for a partner when it opened its first physical location in May. We’ve always wanted to test out a retail location. Two Data Sets Together Determine the Perfect Store Location Leap worked with Collars & Co. The location was in a city where Collars & Co.

Location

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. Not surprisingly, many have found the data points to residential enclaves in and around cities where consumers live.

Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At the core of the store design program is a framework to assess retail stores and to inform the design of ELC visual merchandising, based on sustainability-related areas including waste reduction, water and energy conservation and responsible material sourcing. Iannuzzi: We have several vehicles and champions for this work.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, CBD companies are generally forced to rely on their direct-to-consumer, in-store displays, and product and packaging designs — while brands outside the CBD category can leverage the power of social media and online campaigns across mainstream advertising and retail media networks to drive brand awareness and sales.

Consumer

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

And because food shopping decisions align directly with consumers’ needs and preferences, food retailers have a unique opportunity to differentiate through the physical experience they offer. All brands and retailers need to think critically about what they want consumers to accomplish in their locations.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

At Coach, Zaccariello is responsible for visual merchandising through the company’s 3D creative studio, including store windows, showrooms and pop-ups, design and production of events and the digital experience team. A New Take on Location, Location, Location. That is just the way we are.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Seeking to support expansion into what it terms “strategic growth categories,” The Container Store has launched its “Uncontained” campaign, focusing on direct-to-consumer (DTC) products in categories including dining, entertaining, home décor and textiles.

Visual Merchandising

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. Sustainability has come to the fore as consumers become more conscious of how their purchases are impacting their local communities and the environment.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The role of the store is continuing to evolve as consumers’ digital behaviors accelerate — one of the key reasons why experts believe the definition of a “successful store design” has completely changed. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How have consumers’ increasingly digital behaviors influenced design decisions?

Visual Merchandising