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Juganu Provides Customer Insights and Enhanced Safety Through Smart Lighting

Retail TouchPoints

The Foam was designed to make retail locations “smart” by providing retailers with suggestions to improve operations, and creating more personalized shopping experiences for their customers. The Foam connects directly into pre-existing light fixtures at any retail space, including shopping centers, department stores or groceries.

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The Evolution of Retail Formats: Adapting to Environmental and Social Forces

Retail Focus

This transformation can be dissected into several distinct stages, often referred to as disruptions, in which retailers competed on multiple fronts: for physical space, consumer attention, and innovative store layouts and designs. These department stores were typically found in major cities, catering to urban consumers’ needs.

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To Experience the Future of Retail, You’ll Want to Go to the Store

Retail TouchPoints

A flat-pack furniture retailer’s maze-like store layout shows customers how their products work in different settings and gives them the chance to touch and try out items. This is especially important for connecting with Gen Z customers, two-thirds of whom like to shop in-store when they’re looking for new products.

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How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers

Inside Retail

per cent (RM95 billion in total retail sales), and all retail sub-sectors such as fashion, department stores and grocery are expected to rebound. This means stores providing and recommending what the customer needs, when they need it, with the power of data and AI. Strategically located on a gross area of 3.48

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Theatro 2023 Retail Customer Experience Survey

Theatro

An even greater percentage of these shoppers (64%) said that more stores have “poorly trained or prepared staff” than in 2019, compared to 18% who said fewer stores had this problem and 18% who said the number of stores with training issues was about the same.

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The Top 20 Best Ideas for Increasing Foot Traffic to Your Store

Indigo 9 Digital

Make your store Instagram friendly. Primark’s Birmingham location in the UK has sought to capitalize on consumers’ growing desire for Instagramable experiences. For example , in Primark’s Birmingham location there is a “Snap and Share” room. Carve out space in-store and offer it to a complimentary retailer.

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Three Design Tips for Fighting Shrink

Retail TouchPoints

Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too. That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras?