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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers naturally plan a lot of spend around this, with extra staff and extra marketing. But their return to our shores after the pandemic has been far slower than Americans’ — flight bookings are down around 50% of pre-pandemic levels. Christmas in the UK is already in full swing.

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Dick’s to Open 16 Next-Gen ‘50K’ Stores, Expand House of Sport Format in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

For the coming fiscal year, the retailer is planning $800 million in CapEx expenditures to fund a major brick-and-mortar expansion that will enlarge its total store square footage by 2% — its largest physical expansion since 2017. Dick’s Sporting Goods posted strong results in fiscal 2023, which ended Feb. increase in comp store sales.

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5 Key Business Challenges Behind Your Merchandising Strategy

Wiser

Finding the right mix of time, budget, pricing, displays, and customer experience can be a big challenge when forming a successful merchandising strategy. What is Merchandising? A good merchandising strategy can do wonders for your business. The same can be said for carefully planned sales and clearance events.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

Retail TouchPoints

Then the next step is to go beyond that to say you also plan on empowering consumers to be able to live those promises as well, whether that’s inclusivity, sustainability or giving back to the community. For example, they need to support omnichannel services like BOPIS, ship-from-store and seamless returns. customer experience).

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

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J., 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.

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How PAVE Global Can Help Retailers Build Next-Gen Store Design Teams

Retail TouchPoints

Founded in 1992 as The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE), PAVE Global is an educational foundation for the retail design , planning and visual merchandising industry, and gives brand practitioners a unique opportunity to support young students and expand their talent pools. .

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Desigual powers digital transformation of operations and customer experience in partnership with YOOBIC

365 Retail

As part of this transformation, Desigual recognised the need to modernise and streamline communications and visual merchandising (VM) processes and compliance across its store network and, accordingly, deployed the YOOBIC mobile-first platform. “We