Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For both new and existing stores, these requirements span store build-out, energy and water, responsible sourcing of materials, visual merchandising, store operations and innovation.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apps that allow shoppers to preview and locate in-store inventory, do virtual try-ons, identify sales and cash in on personalized promotions and rewards are popular. In fact, most consumers (61%) report that they consider their smartphone “very important” while shopping in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

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

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

Sustainability is good for business, and architects and designers are critical advisors in retailers’ trajectories toward a more sustainable future through the design process of physical locations. To lead by example, old or retired products can be used as a “building” material or for visual merchandising displays.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2024

Dick’s plans to open a total of 16 50K stores in 2024, consisting of 12 relocations or remodels and four new stores. Dick’s also will open eight new House of Sport locations in 2024, consisting of seven relocations/conversions and one new store at Boston’s Prudential Center. In terms of capital, it will take about $11.5

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Another of their best features is that they’re agile and allow retailers to try out new locations. So retailers can use pop-ups to validate a location, try out a new concept or for the release of a new product. Plenert: There are technical challenges that vary depending on the type of location. Another issue is permitting.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. s Mosaic District — its first-ever location.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

While the retailer will be focused on improving existing store experiences at scale moving forward, Best Buy is planning to “open a few additional outlet centers and new formats to continue to test two important concepts,” said Barry.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The unique retailer, which houses brands’ products for a fee and rotates its assortment every few months, closed its Showfields Miami location in July 2023 and its Manhattan store, Showfields NoHo , in September. Stores in the Washington, D.C. Georgetown district and in Brooklyn remain open. million.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

The rise of screens The big grocers dipped their toes with front-of-store screens and now they are set to proliferate. Stand by for screens popping up in multiple store locations within the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. Prepare for a digitally-led re-imagining of the store experience. So what can we expect?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2022

Located within its Emirati cultural hub, Zeman Awwal, the market, open April 12-30, 2022, will celebrate Ramadan traditions through jewelry, fashion, arts, crafts and culinary experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP also will build up the brand’s presence in Mexico with IB Group and grow its brick-and-mortar footprint in Central America via its partnership with Fastco , including four new Express stores in key locations through 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Depending on your location or target demographic, both options can be very valuable for your customers. Utilizing these platforms for promoting giveaways, contests or countdowns directly on your signage further incentivizes shopper participation, creating a lively and interactive shopping environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Accomplishing this feat requires more than the familiar mantra of right product, right price, right location and right time: it requires an emotional connection via storytelling, nostalgia and a sense of brand history , according to Ryan Harmon, President and Chief Creative Officer of Zeitgeist Design & Production.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

renovated its Fifth Avenue location, it added the Blue Box Cafe, which has become a hot destination for tourists and Manhattanites alike. “It For example, when the Ralph Lauren on Fifth Avenue closed, the retailer kept the Polo Bar open because it was always booked solid. And when Tiffany & Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We’ve taken that kind of traditional approach to apparel and modernized it with big TVs and big ads playing, but there’s also a vintage look and feel expressed in the fonts we use and things in the stores from the 1970s and 1980s. Working with Leap] allowed us to learn that high-traffic malls are better locations for us.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

In a centrally located atrium space, the department will showcase emerging designers and new-to-Saks brands on a rotating basis. Windows along Fifth Avenue that had previously been blocked have been restored to flood the space with natural light, and extended aisle paths and new lounge seating areas encourage socialization and exploration.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now the retailer is ready to resume rolling out more enhanced brick-and-mortar locations, starting with recent store openings in Paramus, N.J. Over the next seven to eight years , the retailer plans to refresh its entire fleet of 850 stores. and Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2022

For the first time in over a decade, there is the opportunity to snatch up iconic locations that may not have been available before. In New York City, locations like Rockefeller Center, SoHo, or Flatiron — whose asking rents 10 years ago would have been catastrophic — can now be had more affordably.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Learn what metadata can be included with your photos and how it can be leveraged (location for mapping, voice audio annotation in the field, etc.). Take advantage of close-focusing (macro), panoramic stitching and time-lapse software algorithms. Crowdsource imagery from the web.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Shinola successfully partnered with a well-known tattoo artist, Scott Campbell, for its downtown Los Angeles location. They collaborated on unique one-off product lines, including engraved leather goods that reflected the unique location and artistry of the brands. He occupied adjacent space and the brand regularly hosted events there.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Nordstrom continues to roll out of Nordstrom Local stores where you order online and then pick up in these neighborhood locations that offer express alterations and their legendary customer service. Allbirds (via Shopify), to highlight one retailer, offers pick up in store and fulfills orders via ship from store. .

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Making In-Store Shopping More Convenient with Endless Aisles Consumers are already familiar with QR codes — they scan QR codes to access restaurant menus, enter contests, contact support, redeem rewards and so much more.

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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). This can reduce customer waits and frustration.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Certain locations even boast their own outdoor athletic fields. Especially when the store is located in a tourist destination, retailers can add interest by doing the same. Indeed, Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt has won kudos for striving to make the booksellers’ stores operate more like independent shops.

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365 Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

It acts as the key foundation for advanced store digitalization functionality such as: sophisticated real-time dynamic price and promotion implementation and management; advanced replenishment; shelf imaging and optimization; Click & Collect services; and in-store geo-location for advanced customer experience (CX).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2024

That concept — carefully curating brands and creating a store that’s part selling space, part experiential destination — is being carried on by the brand’s latest iteration, Fred Segal Home.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

Not only is AR more interactive and engaging, providing digital training as employees navigate stores and equipment, but it can also be less expensive than traditional methods, such as sending training teams to store locations. AR Merchandising. AR visual merchandising automates manual store planning processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Each store is designed to deliver a more modern shopping experience and improve the lives of our associates and customers from the moment they step into the new space. In addition to exteriors and interiors refreshed with new paint, new signs and additional shopping carts, the remodeled locations also are more spacious.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The collection will be available online and via the Target app and, in select stores, at a dedicated Kendra Scott at Target experience within the jewelry and accessories department that will feature branding, styling mirrors and more. Target stores in Edina, Minn.,

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