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More People Than Ever Are Exploring the Outdoors. Here’s the Opportunity for Brands and Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

While COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of many new shopping behaviors and expectations, there is another trend that the pandemic has pushed forward: interest in the outdoors. Participation in outdoor activities increased by nearly 25 million people over the past decade, and nearly half that number visited the U.S.’s

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The Role of Flooring in Enhancing Customer Experience in Retail Stalls

365 Retail

These outdoor structures also benefit from flooring that withstands weather elements, enhances aesthetic appeal, and offers safety. Good flooring underpins this by enhancing comfort, safety, and overall aesthetic appeal factors that can encourage customers to linger a little longer and perhaps even return.

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7 Reasons Why Outdoor Spaces Need Reliable People Counters

V Count

The importance of people counting extends beyond the confines of indoor physical spaces, reaching into the great outdoors as well. Open spaces such as parks, gardens, and outdoor events often have a critical need for people counters – a need that is every bit as crucial as that of indoor retailers, if not more so.

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7 Reasons Why Outdoor Spaces Need Reliable People Counters

V Count

The importance of people counting extends beyond the confines of indoor physical spaces, reaching into the great outdoors as well. Open spaces such as parks, gardens, and outdoor events often have a critical need for people counters – a need that is every bit as crucial as that of indoor retailers, if not more so.

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Are You Being Served? The Importance of Customer Experience

Retail Assist

Last week I made the most of retail and outdoor hospitality reopening, took a day off and hit the shops on Leeds high street. The atmosphere on the high street was good, not only because stores were open, but I felt that the outdoor dining really added to the atmosphere, it almost felt continental, and is something that I hope stays.

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Look to Immersive Experiences to Increase Conversion and Loyalty with Better CX

Retail TouchPoints

Many of the innovations we’ve seen retailers adopt since the beginning of the pandemic are immersive experiences, and while they may have started as ways to make up for the lack of in-store traffic and sales, they’re now setting the standard for CX in ways that drive differentiation, conversions, sales and loyalty but also decrease returns.

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Why the Future of the Mall is All About ‘Blend Spaces’

Retail TouchPoints

EPAM Continuum, a global innovation design firm that specializes in customer experience design, recently unveiled the concept of “Blend Space” to illustrate how experiential flow and physical-digital touch points can meet a range of needs and shopping “modes.” There’s a great outdoor retail center in Long Beach, Calif.

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