Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2025

If someone seems uncertain in the fitting room, shopping might slow down. Some brands are already making this future real by partnering with companies like Bodd 3D, which provides biometric body scans that help match shoppers to precise sizing, minimising the frustration and returns that come from inconsistent fits.

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CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 17, 2025

By prioritizing a well-structured layout, you can enhance the overall shopping experience, making it more enjoyable and efficient for your customers. Assess your current store layout to identify any problem areas that may be hindering the customer flow and overall shopping experience.

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 18, 2025

Technology Integration: Embrace technology for omnichannel shopping, personalized recommendations, and efficient service to enhance customer interactions and streamline processes. This includes visual merchandising, staff interactions, and even the checkout process. Optimize pathways and product placements to reduce frustration.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

Modern consumers don’t just visit storefronts to shop — they come to engage with products and, more importantly, to connect with brands on a personal level. Even if the overall space maintains a consistent temperature, having multiple light sources lets you experiment and adapt as your shop layout evolves.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2025

To support the new wholesale push, Nike is in the process of hiring retail marketing, visual merchandising and account management employees with the goal of having elevated presentations, better consumer connections and increased sell-throughs. Hill also changed 11 of his 15 direct reports.

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365 Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

The Visual Merchandising and Display Show is the biggest event in the calendar for visual merchandising, retail design, and display. Creating an environment that captures attention and enhances the shopping experience is more vital than ever, and this is the place to find the answers.

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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. Rich textures and materials. Creating unique experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Retail centers have always been more than places to shop; they are part of our social infrastructure. The future of retail isnt about nostalgia or forcing the past to return; its about evolution. Consumers no longer visit shopping centers just to buy things; they want meaningful experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2025

Todays consumers, especially Gen Z and millennials, are returning to stores not out of necessity but out of desire for community, discovery and perhaps most importantly, the experience. Experience-driven shopping. Online shopping is efficient, but not immersive. This shift demands a new approach.

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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. By comprehending the importance of these elements, you can create an engaging shopping environment.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 30, 2025

Buzzword two: RFID and Inventory management With overall retail return rates averaging almost 15 percent, online returns reaching about 18 percent, and new Environmental Protection Agency sustainability reporting regulations for brands beginning in 2025, inventory management has been climbing up retailer radars for more and more reasons.

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A1 Retail

JULY 9, 2025

A record shop, live performances, engaging conversation, listening parties and karaoke bring sonic energy to Selfridges London, Manchester and Birmingham. In Birmingham, proud home of Heavy Metal, never more so than in anticipation of Black Sabbath’s return to stage, a unique experience has been created for fans of the legendary band.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 22, 2025

Moshi Moshi has mimicked Japan retail superbly, with beautiful visual merchandising, efficient use of space, design-rich, sharply priced products across a dozen categories and a playful in-store experience. Visual merchandising is critically important. Moshi Moshi isn’t the only one trying to out-Japan the Japanese.

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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. It might sound ambitious, but the goal is to make shopping more intuitive and fun. Retail has always had its share of mystique.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Mark your calendars for the 16-17 April 2024, as the Visual Merchandising and Display Show returns to the Business Design Centre in London. The Visual Merchandising and Display Show: At the heart of the industry Taking place in the heart of London, the Business Design Centre will be filled with a cornucopia of industry experts.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2022

The shop-in-shop retail approach can yield benefits for both the host retailer and the hosted brand, but there are certainly challenges to entering into this type of partnership. Would standing out or blending within the host environment drive the most traffic to the shop-in-shop? Making Space for a Shop-in-Shop Partner.

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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. Endless aisles also build trust and loyalty through an all-around improved shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The UK remains a global shopping destination and traditionally sees a significant influx of tourists during the Christmas season. But their return to our shores after the pandemic has been far slower than Americans’ — flight bookings are down around 50% of pre-pandemic levels. Christmas in the UK is already in full swing.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Design and visual merchandising teams in particular rise to the occasion, finding creative themes, materials, lighting and more to evoke delight and holiday spirit among consumers of all ages. The holiday season has always been a core period for retailers to level up their in-store experiences. Be monumental.

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VMS

MAY 18, 2021

shoppers are returning to shopping malls, according to a report by Placer.ai, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). The post Foot Traffic Returns to U.S. Shopping Malls appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you walk up and down the aisles of supermarkets, clothes shops or even furniture stores, you will notice that more brands are shouting about their commitment to protecting the environment, be it via packaging or marketing messages. The Lidl Return Scheme trial will run in participating Glasgow stores from 8 February to 11 August.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

At Coach, Zaccariello is responsible for visual merchandising through the company’s 3D creative studio, including store windows, showrooms and pop-ups, design and production of events and the digital experience team. There is definitely a need to return to the physical experience.”. That is just the way we are.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded in 1992 as The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE), PAVE Global is an educational foundation for the retail design , planning and visual merchandising industry, and gives brand practitioners a unique opportunity to support young students and expand their talent pools.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

With more people returning to in-store shopping as the pandemic has eased, brands are leaning into the phygital trend by designing physical stores that reflect popular elements of the online experience. Likewise, physical clothing stores for online powerhouse Amazon re-create the convenience of digital shopping.

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Retail Focus

JULY 11, 2022

John Abbate, the retail design and visual merchandising expert on the Save The High Street Advisory Board, is a staunch believer that effective design and display can provide a real competitive advantage to independent retailers: “Independents are the heartbeat of our high streets.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The shopping mall’s identity crisis has been an oft-discussed topic in the retail industry. Even beforethe pandemic, the narrative focused on how malls were navigating the rise in online shopping and the associated fall in foot traffic. RTP: What is the next big trend in developing an omnichannel shopping mall experience?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

The new store features two service hubs, including a main counter with a focus on click-and-collect, online returns and transactions, and a concierge and styling zone located near the fitting rooms. Here, customers can leisurely try on items and get styled by staff, then quickly pay for their items straight after their session.

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CJ Retail Solutions

JANUARY 20, 2025

In today’s retail landscape, the significance of data-driven visual merchandising cannot be overstated. By analyzing customer preferences, shopping behaviors, and market trends, you can tailor your visual merchandising strategies to meet the specific needs of your clientele.

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Wiser

APRIL 26, 2022

A good merchandising strategy can do wonders for your business. Visual merchandising strategies like marketing displays in-store or online can draw in customers and increase foot-traffic. Customer experience will also improve, leading to an increase in returning shoppers. Key Challenges to Merchandising Strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. For example, they need to support omnichannel services like BOPIS, ship-from-store and seamless returns. Are consumers returning products less often?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Additionally, consumers still have pandemic-related and sustainability concerns, ranging from reluctance to shop in crowded stores to environmental issues around the use of cardboard and plastic-heavy displays. Consumers who previously wouldn’t have done this for fear of messing up their makeup now stop and shop.

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VMS

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For example, Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer and private employer, announced this past summer it doesn’t have any plans to return its supercenters to their pre-pandemic always-open operations. Artavia Milliam, 39, of Brooklyn, is a visual merchandiser at H&M in Times Square.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Stranger Things recently reminded us how incredibly different the standard for the American retail experience was just a couple decades ago when much of social life centered on shopping malls. We know that there’s an 86% correlation between one’s reaction to sound and their subconscious desire to return to that space.”.

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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.

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Inside Retail

MAY 19, 2025

The store is not just a place to shop, its a place where customers can freely interact with the product offering, curate their own style, and shape their ideal homewares and lifestyle aesthetic in an environment that feels comfortably like home, Kestelman told Inside Retail.

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CJ Retail Solutions

AUGUST 20, 2024

Visual merchandising is a critical component of retail success. It is the strategic display of merchandise to attract customers and encourage them to purchase. A store’s visual appeal has a significant impact on customers’ perception of the brand and their shopping experience.

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VMS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

“We are thrilled to bring a second way for our passionate shoppers to discover and shop an assortment they know and love,” said John Ricciuti, HomeGoods President. “We hope our customers find the same excitement shopping HomeGoods online as they do exploring the aisles of our stores.”

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