Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. A well-designed store can create a memorable brand experience that strengthens customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Fast Simon solution is designed to enhance online retailers’ merchandising with smart collections and visual merchandising. The level of optimization Fast Simon provides helps our brands provide better online shopping experiences to consumers,” said Alex Baillargeon, SVP of Digital at Authentic in a statement. “The

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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 22, 2022

The holiday season has always been a core period for retailers to level up their in-store experiences. 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. Be monumental.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2021

A customer now wants to be entertained, they want to be “woo-ed” by you. They expect to be guided, some would even say they expect you to control their shopping experience. Are you expected to be a shopkeeper, a marketing expert, a visual merchandising expert, an operations expert and stock-buying expert … just to name a few.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Perhaps you’re laser-focused on discovering ways to maximize ecommerce revenue; perhaps you seek store designs that promote experiential retail, but on a budget; or maybe you want to determine whether live shopping and the metaverse are a fit for your business.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To meet the needs of the industry, EuroShop 2023 has been structured into eight clear experience dimensions, providing an even more visitor-oriented offering, synergies between different dimensions, and more hall space for strongly growing areas such as retail technology or refrigeration. Shopping becomes an interactive high-tech experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Communication between your customers, employees and external stakeholders holds the power to unlock discrepancies between departments and show where your business model may have room for improvement to create a more seamless customer experience. How to Track a Customer’s Bad Shopping Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2024

Consumers are changing how they shop and who they shop with, and now brands are taking notice. Traditionally, retail spaces have been associated with social interaction and shared experiences, serving as bustling hubs for family outings and social gatherings among friends. Shopping alone may be the answer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Food shopping is a highly personal, and sometimes emotional, experience. And because food shopping decisions align directly with consumers’ needs and preferences, food retailers have a unique opportunity to differentiate through the physical experience they offer. Space and Atmosphere. Photo courtesy of: Shutterstock.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

In many ways, this show was a big coming out for the company, which also unveiled the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for retail shopping assistants , a generative AI reference workflow designed to help developers create AI-powered digital assistants that work with and support human workers online and in stores.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

The brand was previously available in Australia through select stockists but now for the first time, consumers can get the Bolia experience and shop its ‘whole of home’ product offering and customise furniture at the in-store design atelier. “We Instead, it is a homeware industry specialist and leader in customer experience.

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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. It’s a location filled with coffee shops and Gen Z is everywhere there,” Zaccariello said.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 29, 2021

The employee and customer experience are intrinsically linked. Our retail brand, and the way it’s experienced by the customer, is now recognised as one of the biggest differentiators in the business. A consistent brand experience, in every store. The answer lies in employee-first technology. .

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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. The Importance of Chinese New Year for Shopping Tourists The Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most well-known and celebrated of the various Lunar New Years.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Hospitals and medical campuses typically look at retail as an essentially insignificant element in their patient, visitor and employee experiences. That translates into gift shops and cafeteria spaces that are often sterile environments featuring the same mediocre-quality products and pre-packaged foods.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sales in these specific categories not only exceeded our expectations at launch, but also brought in new customers to shop with us.” Uncontained also will support the premium Container Store Custom Spaces offering with on-trend finishes, hardware and features such as smarthome compatible lighting.

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CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 30, 2024

Visual merchandising is a critical component in maximizing retail sales. This practice involves strategically presenting products to create visually appealing and enticing displays for customers. Effective visual merchandising can attract shoppers, encourage store entry, and ultimately increase sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the brick-and-mortar space, fixturing offers a unique chance to work more closely with brands and elevate the retail experience for consumers. Although you can go to other retailers to purchase Apple products, visiting an Apple store is an entirely different experience. Microsoft was quick to follow Apple’s model.

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Wiser

APRIL 26, 2022

Finding the right mix of time, budget, pricing, displays, and customer experience can be a big challenge when forming a successful merchandising strategy. What is Merchandising? Why is Merchandising Strategy Important? A good merchandising strategy can do wonders for your business. 3: Customer Loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Brands need design solutions that fit their portfolio of locations, including urban, suburban, shopping mall, shop-in-shops and other store types. Where do we want our customers to go, and what do we want them to do? The store environment must therefore be flexible, enabling the fast turnover of merchandise.

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CJ Retail Solutions

AUGUST 2, 2024

Merchandising is a critical component of retail operations that focuses on optimizing product presentation to maximize sales. It encompasses various elements, including product placement, store layout, signage, and visual displays. Effective merchandising significantly influences customer experience and purchasing behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

In a recent interview with Retail TouchPoints , Peterson shared more details on this transformation journey, including Carters investments in: An immersive, reimagined retail experience complete with a Mothers Lounge, toddler-tested Playhouse, Kid Interactive Zone, gift shop, community events and more.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2020

To future-proof your business, you need to think beyond social distancing precautions and reimagine the customer experience from the ground up. 1: AR for Planogramming and Smart Merchandising. When it’s finally time for reopening, people won’t shop in quite the same way they did before.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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CJ Retail Solutions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Using visual merchandising is an effective way to improve and increase your sales by tempting your customers to buy your products. Visual merchandising is all about using the space within your store to maximise potential sales. Seize on impulsive buyers Using visual merchandising will help to increase impulse buys.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Store design and visual merchandising now encompass many different elements, according to Tammy Callahan, Director of Sales & Account Management at Kendu , a provider of in-store visual solutions. For retailers, it is a chance to seamlessly immerse the consumer in the brand whether they choose to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

As a result of changing consumer behaviors and spending patterns, many retailers are focused on right-sizing their store footprints, especially in shopping malls. Fitts noted that using these spaces could be wise and valuable “calculated risks” that serve a business better than a traditional shopping center or retail corridor.

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Retail Customer Experience

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The technology displayed at groceryshop covered many aspects of grocery retailing — from omnichannel integration to in-store promotions to inventory management to visual merchandising to supply chain management — much including self service applications.

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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. Trend 3: Store Design Teams Become ‘Experience Teams’ When a brand decides to open a new store, the design team cannot work within its own silo. customer experience).

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Sadly, in addition to imagining how people will shop the store, designers need to think harder about how they might steal from it, too. That means asking questions like: What more can be done to deter theft using store layout, customer flow, shelf height, mirrors, lighting and the placement of gondolas, merchandise and security cameras?

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Retail Focus

MAY 9, 2023

Retail environments are becoming increasingly engaged as retailers recognize the importance of creating a one-of-a-kind, memorable customer experience. Retail design, physically, can directly impact customer emotions and behaviors. The role of retail environments in an experience economy.

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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. Experience has always been the main retail differentiator, especially as convenience increasingly becomes a rarified reason for retail to exist.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our team members are a key part of the experience, so we hire enthusiasts and seek to be seen as a friendly, clever ally. While the JOANN customer experience is extremely human-centric, the retailer doesn’t shy away from using technology. Customers have to wait in line, so it can be a difficult experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Many luxury brands communicate their heritage and the promise of an elevated shopping experience via store design: traditional colors, subtle lighting and deep carpets that create a high-end hush. It can be a unique, engaging shopping experience that they can’t do in their main stores.

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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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