Department Stores Store Operations Visual Merchandising 
Retail Wire
JUNE 15, 2025
In January, the department-store icon confirmed plans to shutter 66 under-performing locations across 22 states—the first tranche of a strategy that will ultimately cull 150 stores by 2026. For publicly traded chains, payroll trimming is often the fastest lever for defending margins when top-line sales wobble.
Retail TouchPoints
JULY 23, 2025
As an experienced retail designer, I simply LOVE visiting stores. Yet there is one format I very much struggle with: department stores. Because to this day, the entrances to most “traditional” department stores go through the beauty department. Let me illustrate with a very personal example.
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Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Kohl’s has hired a new Senior EVP and Director of Stores to help improve brick-and-mortar sales and productivity. Fred Hand, who has deep experience with discount and department store brands, is now overseeing the retailer’s 1,100+ stores, store operations and experience, loss prevention and store experience and design functions.
Retail TouchPoints
OCTOBER 31, 2023
Open, light-filled, high-visibility store environments are harder to steal from without being seen, and they also happen to be more pleasing to shop. In other cases, crime is more intense (see the viral videos of thefts at downtown drug and luxury department stores).
Inside Retail
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The local branch will offer a number of consultancy services, ranging from retail store management to visual merchandising, digital marketing and retail technology for omnichannel solutions, in an effort to elevate Malaysia’s beauty and fashion retail industry.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 20, 2024
” Constantly Test and Iterate Design Concepts Retailers like Macy’s have made headlines for their moves to right-size their store fleet and invest in new, much smaller , store formats and experiences. “When they go shopping, they want to be treated specially.
VMS
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Using Capture Services On-Demand, Matterport Pro2 cameras, or the Matterport Smartphone app, retail customers are creating virtual showrooms, curating shoppable digital experiences with e-commerce integration, and making store operations more efficient. Harrods Uses Matterport Capture Services to Create Virtual Showroom for Consumers.
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