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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. That’s only going to further accelerate the expectations of consumers and technology adoption within retail environments. Are consumers returning products less often?

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5 Key Business Challenges Behind Your Merchandising Strategy

Wiser

The promoting and selling strategies that retailers use to increase sales, boost profits, draw in new customers, improve customer experiences, and shape brand image are all part of merchandising. Often, merchandising includes things like creating a pricing strategy, display design and layout, loss prevention, and store upkeep.

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These Were the Top Retail Stories of 2022

VMS

But backrooms filled up, investment money dried up, inflation cut into consumable income, workers sought to organize and loss prevention became a top-of-mind concern. And how can that not have an effect on consumers’ minds? Retail prices have inflated and consumer demand has softened. Happy New Year. INFLATION ON.

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Retail Returns Increased to $761 Billion in 2021

VMS

Retailers expect more than $761 billion in merchandise sold last year to be returned by consumers, according to a report released today by the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail. Now is the time to stop thinking of returns as a cost of doing business and begin to view them as a time to truly engage with your consumers.”.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

How can we better integrate the latest anti-theft technologies and loss-prevention research into our store designs from the outset? The good news: Skills developed on the consumer side can be flipped around and used to fight retail crime. What are the most customer-friendly ways to protect high-value items from smash-and-grabs?