Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Implementing AI-powered image recognition allows FMCG companies to streamline operations, boost sales, and deliver better customer experiences. The Role of AI-Powered Image Recognition in FMCG At its core, FMCG image recognition uses machine learning and computer vision to analyze images of store shelves. Lets explore.

Management

Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2025

When customers feel understood and valued, they are more likely to make repeat purchases, increase their average basket size, and remain loyal to your brand over time. Enhanced marketing return on investment (ROI): Targeted campaigns, powered by precise data, drastically reduce wasted ad spend.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

This enhances the overall experience by increasing relevance and decreasing choice overwhelm, which saves time for customers. Elevating the customer experience The retail landscape is being transformed in many areas, from in-store shopping to customer service, creating more seamless and engaging experiences.

Checkout

Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2025

Key Takeaways Create an Inviting Atmosphere: An effective retail store design focuses on crafting an engaging environment that resonates with your target audience, boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty. Creating an inviting retail space can make all the difference in attracting customers and boosting sales.

Visual Merchandising

Retail Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

For multi-location retail operations, these systems can also be transported and reused across various stores, further amplifying return on investment. Fashion stores regularly update their window displays and in-store layout using modular frameworks and interchangeable backdrops.

Kiosk

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 26, 2025

Key Takeaways Understand Your Market: Analyze customer demographics and preferences to tailor offerings and optimize inventory based on local demand. Enhance Store Layout and Design: Create an inviting atmosphere with thoughtful product placement to improve customer experience and encourage impulse buying.

Inventory Management

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 17, 2025

Research shows that customers are more likely to make impulse purchases when products are displayed in an appealing manner. By understanding the psychology behind consumer behavior, you can design your store layout to capitalize on these tendencies. Take the time to walk through your space as if you were a customer.

Store Layout

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 19, 2025

Key Takeaways Color can influence customer behavior and perception, impacting their emotions and purchase decisions. Store layout and flow can impact customer engagement and satisfaction, affecting their overall shopping experience.

Shopping

Small Biz Trends

AUGUST 11, 2025

Enhancing Customer Experience A well-crafted customer experience can greatly boost your store’s success, as satisfied shoppers are more likely to return for repeat purchases. Start by training your employees to provide personalized service customized to individual needs.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2025

Recognizing this shift, many brands are unveiling a new wave of retail environments rich in color, texture and character, bringing renewed purpose to the in-person shopping experience. Tonal changes also can be used to segment the store layout for intuitive wayfinding synced with the brand’s online presence.

Store Layout

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JULY 16, 2025

Tip: Use your POS system to sync inventory across all channels and personalize promotions based on customer buying history. Offer Exceptional Customer Service Excellent service doesn’t stop at the register. Make returns easy, respond promptly to customer questions, and reward loyalty. can go a long way.

Inventory Turnover

CJ Retail Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This trust is essential for building brand loyalty, as customers are more likely to return to a store that presents itself professionally and takes pride in its appearance. Regular maintenance of shop displays can lead to increased sales, improved customer experience, and a positive brand image.

Shopping

Small Biz Trends

JULY 12, 2025

In terms of retail success , your store layout and merchandising strategies play an essential role. A well-thought-out layout directs customer flow, whereas effective visual merchandising improves product visibility. For instance, positioning key items at eye level can increase sales.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

From the art of visual merchandising (VM) to the subtle science of store layout, many of the best decisions were historically guided by experience, gut instinct and the occasional stroke of genius. A quick VM or store layout adjustment could fix what might otherwise remain a mystery.

Visual Merchandising

Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Some of them are tried and true, such as store layout and design, customer service and convenience. Using these techniques, retailers can create a positive and engaging shopping experience for their customers, build strong relationships, and drive sales growth over time. Don’t be complacent in this area.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

The return to brick-and-mortar will be a slow, steady process, and preparing stores for the great return will be as much about making shoppers comfortable as it will be about enticing them back. Cleanliness Will be Just as Important to Returning Shoppers.

Sporting Goods

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

It’s been designed with a streamlined approach to store layout to offer an intuitive shopping journey that encourages discovery and easy navigation. The new location features a bold storefront, expanded footwear and accessory selections and an emphasis on sustainability and dynamic digital fixtures.

Store Layout

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This enables retailers to make data-driven decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance customer experiences, while also reducing costs and boosting profits. In-store enhancements Computer vision: Improves product displays and store layouts to attract shoppers. Here are the key areas to apply AI in retail.

Loss Prevention

Retail Gazette

MAY 16, 2024

Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning Currys director of stores Matthew Speight said: “We’re committed to our omnichannel offering, and know our customers love our stores and our tech experts.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2020

Shoppers have slowly begun to accept brick-and-mortar’s return: 22% have increased their willingness to set foot into a grocery store or pharmacy since March, according to data from Resonate. said retailers should color-code returned clothing based on how long ago the item was returned to make them feel safer about browsing racks.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Pandemic-driven buying trends led to an explosion of new challenges, from a surge in online returns to the rise of curbside pickup to supply chain delays. Retailers implemented ad hoc backend solutions for responding to increased demand for in-store pickup and home delivery services, but many of those solutions were band-aids.

Store Layout

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

How unified commerce drives profits By integrating inventory management and pricing strategies into a unified system, businesses can achieve improved efficiency and use data-driven insights to enhance customer experience and gain a competitive advantage – not to mention improving the bottom line.

Inventory Management

Theatro

JANUARY 25, 2023

adults to share their experiences and views on the current state of in-store retail. Here are the results of our retail customer experience survey. Key Findings Americans prefer shopping in retail stores to shopping online, for reasons like being able to see and feel products before buying them. adults on Jan.

Customer Experience

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How would you describe consumers’ comfort level returning to stores, and how will this change or evolve leading into the peak of the holiday season? RTP: How can in-store staff play a role in enhancing the in-store shopper journey?

Consumer

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By design, Christmas is an explosion of sensory stimuli designed to fire all at once: colour, sparkle, lights, crowds, queues, music, extended product lines, changes to store layouts and pricing. What do I need to return gifts – the future returns process only adds to my to-do list.”. The every channel experience.

Store Layout

Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

It is important in designing exceptional pop-up stores because it helps to create a cohesive look and feel, communicates the brand’s message, differentiates the brand from competitors, and enhances the customer experience. A pop-up store is a great opportunity for a brand to communicate its message to customers.

Visual Merchandising

Wiser

APRIL 26, 2022

Finding the right mix of time, budget, pricing, displays, and customer experience can be a big challenge when forming a successful merchandising strategy. Done well, it can improve customer experiences, boost sales, and increase overall product visibility. What is Merchandising? Key Challenges to Merchandising Strategy.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2020

Every retail journey — whether it’s a browse through a neighborhood store or a series of clicks through a web site — involves two simple things: First, a customer intention; and Second, an outcome, which, ideally for both retailer and customer, is a sale.

Shopping

Retail Focus

MAY 1, 2024

“As we continue progressing against our Lace Up Plan, this inventive retail experience delivers on our promise to power up the portfolio, while providing an unparalleled, omni-focused customer experience.”

Store Layout

I Vend

MARCH 9, 2022

After two years of lockdowns and closed stores, restrictions seem to be over in many countries. Shoppers are returning to retail stores in their droves – where lockdown saw the rapid rise of online purchasing, industry experts are now forecasting a similar upward trajectory for brick and mortar shopping.

Fashion

365 Retail

JULY 26, 2022

With 92% of consumers claiming a clean, organised store environment will increase their probability of making a purchase, Katie Westerman, Chief Marketing & Development Officer at SBFM , explores the growing importance of hygiene and sanitation in delivering the ultimate customer experience (CX). A bright future.

Store Layout

I Vend

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Retail technology can streamline inventory management by enabling retailers to accurately track goods from delivery to sale through to returns. A single stock pool gives a clear view of every item of stock, no matter where it sits, to ensure that retailers can get it to where the customer wants to buy.

Shrinkage

Wiser

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Behind every customer experience is a story. What led them into your store? Optimize Your Store Layout and Shelf Space. One of the most important aspects to pay attention to when analyzing your shopper research is the customers that are leaving without making purchases or returning often.

Store Layout

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From AI-powered inventory systems to smart carts that personalise in-store shopping, the technological innovations are not only reshaping how retailers operate but also how they interact and engage with their customers. Here, we delve deeper into some of the key technologies already steering this change.

Consumer

I Vend

APRIL 20, 2023

It may also be used with a mobile receipt printer – however, with a growing number of customers preferring to receive digital receipts (42% ** , compared with 34% who prefer paper), many retailers now implement mobile POS without feeling the need to offer a printed receipt option. trillion in 2023 + , and to grow at 14% to $5.58

Checkout

V Count

JULY 24, 2024

This feature ensures that customers experience minimal wait times, leading to increased satisfaction and a better overall shopping experience. Staff Exclusion is a feature that allows people counting systems to accurately differentiate between customers and employees.

Management

V Count

APRIL 10, 2023

As a decision-maker, you can gain valuable insights into customer behavior and preferences, use visitor data to make strategic decisions to grow your business, improve customer experience, save or reallocate resources, and more. What you can do with highly accurate visitor information is, of course, up to you.

Store Layout