Retail Focus

JULY 2, 2025

The investment began in June 2024 and is set to be completed at the beginning of August 2025 with the refit of the last 15 stores, setting the stage for sustained growth and a transformed customer experience. The major refit features an improved store layout on the style of the rest of the European stores, with a distinguishing modern look.

Marketing

Retail Focus

JULY 17, 2025

For retailers, this means designing store layouts that are easy to move through, checkout processes with minimal steps and staff trained to support rather than slow down the customer journey. When shopping feels effortless, customers are more likely to return and recommend the store to others.

Payment Services

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 8, 2025

Benefits: Increased customer satisfaction and trust Greater likelihood of customers returning for future purchases Stronger word-of-mouth marketing 4. Ensure Hassle-Free Returns and Refunds A simple and straightforward return and refund process can significantly impact a customer’s perception of your brand.

Customer Retention

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Simplify Returns and Transfers: If a product is out of stock at one location, a centralized system can facilitate inter-store transfers or online fulfillment, ensuring a seamless customer experience. With access to accurate, up-to-date information, retailers can make informed decisions that positively impact business outcomes.

Inventory Management

Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2025

Enhanced marketing return on investment (ROI): Targeted campaigns, powered by precise data, drastically reduce wasted ad spend. Understanding purchasing patterns can inform inventory management, optimise product assortment, guide store layouts, and refine promotional planning, leading to greater efficiencies.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

JANUARY 22, 2025

By analysing customer behaviour, generative AI can also speed up insights into foot traffic patterns, allowing retailers to optimise store layouts and product placements, ultimately improving the flow and convenience of in-store shopping. Conversational commerce is also redefining how customers interact with brands.

Checkout

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 17, 2025

By understanding the psychology behind consumer behavior, you can design your store layout to capitalize on these tendencies. For instance, placing high-demand items at the back of the store encourages customers to walk through various sections, increasing the likelihood of additional purchases along the way.

Store Layout

Retail Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

For multi-location retail operations, these systems can also be transported and reused across various stores, further amplifying return on investment. Fashion stores regularly update their window displays and in-store layout using modular frameworks and interchangeable backdrops.

Kiosk

Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For example, a study by IHL Group found that retailers lose $1 trillion annually due to overstocks, out-of-stocks, and returns. This data helps retailers optimize store layouts and marketing campaigns. This not only improves operational efficiency but also enhances customer satisfaction.

Management

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 19, 2025

Store layout and flow can impact customer engagement and satisfaction, affecting their overall shopping experience. The Psychology of Store Layout and Flow The layout of a store is meticulously designed with your shopping journey in mind.

Shopping

Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2025

Key Takeaways Create an Inviting Atmosphere: An effective retail store design focuses on crafting an engaging environment that resonates with your target audience, boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty. A well-planned store layout and ambiance enhance customer satisfaction, driving repeat visits and increasing sales.

Visual Merchandising

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 26, 2025

Enhance Store Layout and Design: Create an inviting atmosphere with thoughtful product placement to improve customer experience and encourage impulse buying. Store Layout and Design Your grocery store layout and design play a crucial role in customer experience and sales.

Inventory Management

365 Retail

JULY 14, 2025

This adaptability reduces long-term costs while keeping your retail store layout current. Research customer preferences: Study buying patterns, expectations, and shopping habits specific to your retail store. These thoughtful design choices help build lasting impressions and keep your retail store top of mind for future visits.

Visual Merchandising

365 Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

In the same way exclusive bingo rooms online carefully organise their games to enhance user interest, small retailers can design distinct areas in-store to showcase new arrivals or seasonal exclusives, driving foot traffic and sales. Coupling in-store organisation with a cohesive digital presence strengthens brand appeal.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2025

This return to maximalism is not just about design for designs sake; it’s about creating authentic spaces that reflect the evolving expectations of consumers and forge deeper connections between brands and their audiences. Creating a third place within retail spaces.

Store Layout

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JULY 16, 2025

Make returns easy, respond promptly to customer questions, and reward loyalty. A robust retail analytics dashboard can help you decide what to stock when to run promotions, and how to optimize store layout. Offer Exceptional Customer Service Excellent service doesn’t stop at the register. can go a long way.

Inventory Turnover

CJ Retail Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This trust is essential for building brand loyalty, as customers are more likely to return to a store that presents itself professionally and takes pride in its appearance. Regular training sessions can help reinforce these skills and keep employees informed about new trends or changes in store layout.

Shopping

Small Biz Trends

AUGUST 11, 2025

Enhancing Customer Experience A well-crafted customer experience can greatly boost your store’s success, as satisfied shoppers are more likely to return for repeat purchases. Guarantee your store is clean and organized, as this improves first impressions and encourages longer visits.

Payment Services

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

We have also refreshed our Local store layouts and rebalanced space, increasing the number of products in store by 7% and adding more food on the move products – the primary mission of most convenience shoppers. When you’re shopping in Sainsbury’s Locals, you can be sure of excellent value, quality and choice.

Grocer

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. For instance, positioning key items at eye level can increase sales.

Store Layout

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. A quick VM or store layout adjustment could fix what might otherwise remain a mystery.

Visual Merchandising

Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Some of them are tried and true, such as store layout and design, customer service and convenience. Store layout and design Store layout and design are basic, yet essential factors in creating the initial impression and introduction to the store. Don’t be complacent in this area.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

This retail renaissance is not just a return to traditional shopping spaces but also signifies a shift in the shoppers’ culture, expectations and behaviors. One of the pivotal factors contributing to the mall boom is sustainability, especially in the realm of returns.

Returns

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.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2020

Shoppers have slowly begun to accept brick-and-mortar’s return: 22% have increased their willingness to set foot into a grocery store or pharmacy since March, according to data from Resonate. said retailers should color-code returned clothing based on how long ago the item was returned to make them feel safer about browsing racks.

Returns

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

The return to brick-and-mortar will be a slow, steady process, and preparing stores for the great return will be as much about making shoppers comfortable as it will be about enticing them back. Cleanliness Will be Just as Important to Returning Shoppers.

Sporting Goods

Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In-store enhancements Computer vision: Improves product displays and store layouts to attract shoppers. Price optimisation AI assists you in setting competitive prices that attract customers while maximising profits. Loss prevention: Employs advanced surveillance techniques to detect and prevent shoplifting.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Now, as retailers engage in a staggered return to business activity, and as lease renewals approach, tenants and owners are back to the drawing board, considering their strategy for the coming months. The in-store experience remains a crucial part of consumer expectations.

Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Pandemic-driven buying trends led to an explosion of new challenges, from a surge in online returns to the rise of curbside pickup to supply chain delays. Retailers implemented ad hoc backend solutions for responding to increased demand for in-store pickup and home delivery services, but many of those solutions were band-aids.

Store Layout

Inside Retail

JUNE 21, 2024

From one analyst’s perspective, the Australian mergers and acquisitions landscape is considered to be relatively subdued, but there are signs that confidence in the market is returning. Investors are not seeking for their funds to be returned to them without any assets or growth to show for it,” Hough said.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A network outage can mean lost sales in the short term, as shoppers simply move to another brand for that purchase, or losses in the long term if that customer does not return. While the report primarily focuses on how AI can optimize store layouts and marketing strategies, there is an underlying message on data security.

Payment Services

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

By consolidating the systems into a central order management hub, Eileen Fisher empowered sales associates to locate any item in a specific size or colour and arrange for shipping from the nearest store or warehouse to a customer’s home.

Inventory Management

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Online sales, favoured during lockdowns, might have been expected to decrease as life returned to normal, however, the research showed the trend endured, accounting for 3 per cent of total sales in 2019 to 6 per cent in 2021. NellyRodi said second-hand fashion will soon develop in the menswear department, also requiring layout adjustments.

Department Stores

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2021

IDC expects grocery to be transformed by consumers’ appetite for omnichannel convenience, projecting that by 2023, 75% of online grocery orders (representing 15% of all grocery sales) will be picked up curbside or in-store.

Payment Services

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By design, Christmas is an explosion of sensory stimuli designed to fire all at once: colour, sparkle, lights, crowds, queues, music, extended product lines, changes to store layouts and pricing. What do I need to return gifts – the future returns process only adds to my to-do list.”. What if I get it wrong?

Store Layout

Retail Focus

MAY 20, 2024

The retailer will initially trial several initiatives in its 20 stores in the area over the next 12 months to create a blueprint for further improvements across its wider estate. This will centre around improving store layouts and designs, upgrading technology and offering enhanced training to colleagues.

Store Layout