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

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increase in comp store sales. 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. In terms of capital, it will take about $11.5

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Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers?

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One example that leaps out is Lidl, which in February this year became the first supermarket to roll out its own bottle return scheme trial. Launching in 21 stores across Glasgow, the scheme offers customers unlimited cash rewards in return for empty PET plastic and aluminium drinks containers via in-store reverse vending machines.

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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

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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. Baird: A lot of store renovation efforts are being driven by the expanded role of the store.

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

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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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Primark President: ‘Our Business is Set Up for People to Grow Into’

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Store workers] might be interested in human resources, visual merchandising or health and safety issues. with plans to increase from your current 19 stores to 60 by 2026. RTP: Does Primark have any plans to become more of an omnichannel retailer? RTP: Primark is on an expansion path in the U.S.,

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Have Big Sustainability Goals? Bergmeyer+ Says to Start Small — with Store Fixtures

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Sometimes this is due to deliberate greenwashing, but more often it’s a problem of planning and execution, according to Christian Davies, Principal at Bergmeyer+ , the new sustainability-focused division of retail design firm Bergmeyer , operating in partnership with SMS Collaborative. It’s called that because there is no Plan B.)

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How True Classic is Bringing its Digital Strengths into the Physical World

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But rather than going solo right away, True Classic partnered with retail services company Leap to operate five stores in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C. Once they purchase True Classic, more often than not, the customer returns with a repeat purchase and also buys into other categories. and San Jose, Calif.,

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