Small Biz Trends

JULY 7, 2025

Leverage Visual Merchandising: Use eye-catching displays and consistent branding to attract customers and enhance their shopping experience, ultimately driving impulse purchases. Strategic placement of merchandise influences how shoppers interact with your products, improving overall shopping experiences.

Visual Merchandising

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 17, 2025

Utilize visual merchandising techniques to highlight key products and draw attention to special promotions or new arrivals. Utilizing Visual Merchandising Techniques to Highlight Key Products Visual merchandising is an art form that plays a crucial role in showcasing your key products effectively.

Store Layout

Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2025

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. Visual merchandising is also ripe for an evolution.

ATS

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 19, 2025

Visual merchandising, flow, and navigation can be enhanced using color and lighting to improve the overall customer experience in retail settings. Retailers understand that effective lighting not only enhances the aesthetic appeal of their merchandise but also plays a crucial role in guiding your emotions and decisions as you shop.

Shopping

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 18, 2025

This includes visual merchandising, staff interactions, and even the checkout process. An exceptional experience encourages customers to return and recommend your store to others, leading to increased sales and brand loyalty. Friendly and attentive service creates a positive interaction, encouraging customers to return.

Customer Experience

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. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore interactive exhibits, live demonstrations, and cutting-edge solutions, gaining insight into how brands are evolving their physical presence.

Visual Merchandising

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JUNE 9, 2025

Reprice or Bundle with High-Movers When visual merchandising isn’t enough, pricing adjustments come next. While the return won’t match your original margin, you’ll recoup part of the investment and clear valuable space for newer stock. A new context can turn a stale item into a must-have.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

By leveraging holistic design principles, retailers can transform the in-store experience into something memorable, meaningful and worth returning to. In an era when consumers are looking for more than just transactions, our retail spaces have to deliver feel-good brand connotations. Gala Magriñá is a holistic interior designer.

Shopping

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.

Wholesale

A1 Retail

AUGUST 8, 2025

When they are no longer fit-for-purpose, the risers can then be returned to Floreeda and recycled again for future use. Kathryn Masterman, Visual Merchandising at schuh, commented: “Our goal as a business is to do more good.

Visual Merchandising

Retail Gazette

JUNE 13, 2025

The US investment firm, which paid a “nominal sum” for the retailer, has pledged to inject up to £80m to fund its proposed turnaround plan led by returning Poundland boss Barry Williams. Struggling discount chain Poundland was snapped up this week by distressed asset investor Gordon Brothers for just £1.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2025

To remain competitive, malls need to consider creative strategies to offer immersive, in-person experiences that keep people coming in the door and excited to return. This is likely because ecommerce shopping has become the leading preference for consumers, with sales at $4.1 trillion in 2024.

Outdoor

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.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

The future of retail isnt about nostalgia or forcing the past to return; its about evolution. Today, as ecommerce reshapes consumer behavior, many of these spaces feel outdated, burdened by vacancies and struggling tenants. But this isnt a death sentence, its an opportunity.

Outdoor

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. This means bold signage, clear logos, standout packaging and high-impact visuals that signal who you are at a glance.

Visual Merchandising

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. Regular seasonal display changes can encourage repeat visits, as customers return to see what’s new.

Store Layout

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.

Shopping

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.

Department Stores

A1 Retail

JULY 9, 2025

The way musical tastes and preferences – from Reggae to Rave – shape both individual identities and major trend cycles informs edits and in-store visual merchandising, while Selfridges Oxford Street windows become a “deconstructed gig” capturing the vibe and emotion of live music in its many forms – a tour bus, stage set and lights, a dance floor.

Kiosk

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. Retail has always had its share of mystique.

Visual Merchandising

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.

Visual Merchandising

VMS

JULY 14, 2021

Who would have thought that there would be such a thing as an organization for those who work in visual merchandising? The organization was created to encourage and promote the highest standards of visual merchandising design and display installations throughout commerce. The post An Organization for Visual Merchandisers?

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Retail TouchPoints and design:retail are thrilled to announce the return of the Markopoulos Award , one of the industry’s most prestigious honors. The award recognizes outstanding achievement and contributions in visual merchandising and store design.

Visual Merchandising

Retail Focus

APRIL 23, 2024

The 2024 Visual Merchandising and Display Show, hosted on April 16-17 at the Business Design Centre in London, provided a comprehensive look at the future of engaging retail spaces through innovative design and display.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. This means that marketing spend aimed at these high-spending visitors over Christmas is likely to get less return than usual. Here are four ideas you still have plenty of time to implement.

Marketing Spend

VMS

JANUARY 26, 2022

shoppers returned more than $761 billion worth of merchandise in 2021, growing to an average of 16.6 The National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail surveyed 57 retailers between mid-October and mid-November and found that the average rate of returns on online purchases is even higher, clocking in at 20.8 percent versus 10.6

Returns

VMS

MAY 7, 2021

Tapestry (New York), owner of retail brands Coach and Kate Spade, reported that its third-quarter fiscal sales have returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to CNBC. The post Tapestry 3Q Sales Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. Net sales rose 19 percent to $1.27

Returns

VMS

APRIL 22, 2021

Willensky will lead the brand’s e-commerce, merchandising, retail, customer experience and international teams. The post Jen Rubio Returns as Away CEO appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

Returns

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.

Returns

VMS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The post Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Returns appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. .” In its 95th year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade will feature live musical performances in addition to decorated floats, marching bands and the iconic floating balloon characters.

Returns

VMS

APRIL 20, 2021

The brand promises exclusive collaborations, new merchandise assortments and a robust private label offering in the near future. The post Lord & Taylor Returns as E-Commerce Brand appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

Returns

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.

Visual Merchandising

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.

Visual Merchandising

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.

Visual Merchandising

Retail Focus

JULY 11, 2022

When it is done correctly it will engage and attract more customers, help increase sales and give customers a reason to return in the future. Save The High Street is an industry movement to ensure successful high streets now and for the long term by supporting over 25,000 local businesses.

Promotions

Retail Focus

APRIL 12, 2024

On the 12th of March, the Leonardo Royal St Paul’s in London was the epicentre of celebration for the Retail Visual Merchandising and Display industry. The awards ceremony is renowned for showcasing specific elements of Visual Merchandising and Display, with this year witnessing a record number of entries.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In a room full of visual merchandisers, designers and creative leads, the following four projects were spotlighted for their creativity, professionalism and ability to evoke joy. Now in its 22 nd year, the nominated brands reached new levels of innovation — with some even thinking outside of the window to tell their stories.

Visual Merchandising