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How Collars & Co. Used Multiple Data Sets to Optimize its First Physical Location

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However, running even one store adds a complicated layer to overall operations, from staffing to stocking, which is why specialty apparel company Collars & Co. looked for a partner when it opened its first physical location in May. We’ve always wanted to test out a retail location.

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Computer Vision-Enabled App Helps Home Depot Improve On-Shelf Availability

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Home Depot is on the leading edge with this type of tech usage: the 2023 Retail TouchPoints Store Operations Benchmark Survey revealed that just 28% of retailer respondents’ associates use mobile devices to audit visual merchandising and displays.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

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Trend 3: Store Design Teams Become ‘Experience Teams’ When a brand decides to open a new store, the design team cannot work within its own silo. This is a new reality for typical projects, according to Cornelius, and it is why her firm has changed its vernacular from “store design” to “experience design.”

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Is the Container Store Trying to be the Next Bed Bath & Beyond?

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Uncontained also will support the premium Container Store Custom Spaces offering with on-trend finishes, hardware and features such as smarthome compatible lighting. The Container Store also has plans to add more brick-and-mortar locations; in June 2022 it announced it would add 74 new stores by 2027.

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Implementing Sustainable Design Strategies in the Retail Environment

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Sustainability is good for business, and architects and designers are critical advisors in retailers’ trajectories toward a more sustainable future through the design process of physical locations. To lead by example, old or retired products can be used as a “building” material or for visual merchandising displays.

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Retail’s Future is Phygital

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Apps that allow shoppers to preview and locate in-store inventory, do virtual try-ons, identify sales and cash in on personalized promotions and rewards are popular. In fact, most consumers (61%) report that they consider their smartphone “very important” while shopping in stores.

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Foot Locker Debuts ‘Store of the Future’ in New Jersey

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Foot Locker has unveiled its new store format, which includes a communal sneaker try-on area to facilitate “sneaker culture” conversations and technology that provides store associates with omnichannel inventory availability data. The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J.,