Retail Focus

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The latest new retail stores at Derbion in Derby. Derbion’s new Castore store.Picture by Shaun Fellows / Shine Pix Ltd Michael Boundy, Director – Asset Management at Derbion, said: 2024 has been a bumper year for Derbion as we welcomed a diverse range of new occupiers whilst retaining some of our most popular brands.

Store Layout

Small Biz Trends

JULY 23, 2025

Subdivide Space Into Themed Zones Subdividing your store into themed zones not just improves customer navigation but furthermore encourages shoppers to explore various product categories. Clearly defined zones help manage customer flow and reduce congestion, resulting in a more pleasant shopping experience.

Visual Merchandising

Wiser

MAY 12, 2025

Store layouts change. Fixed Planning Cycles vs. The Disconnect Between Centralized Planning and Store Execution Displays are centrally developed with defined planograms, creative assets, and execution playbooks. Field teams must often re-align store managers on: Display placement intent (e.g.,

Planning

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 8, 2025

How to Implement: Ensure your online store, physical locations, and mobile app are integrated and offer the same products, pricing, and promotions. Allow customers to make purchases online and pick them up in-store (BOPIS), or offer easy returns and exchanges across all channels.

Customer Retention

Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

The Role of E-Commerce in Inflationary Periods During times of inflation, online retailers have an advantage over physical stores. Many costs are avoided by digital shops, including multiple locations, large staff teams, and high utility bills. When inflation is high, department stores expand their clearance sections.

Consumer

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 9, 2025

Educate Yourself About Store Layout : Familiarize yourself with the layout of the shop. Understanding where items are located simplifies your shopping process. These stores often aren’t as widespread as traditional supermarkets, which makes it inconvenient for you to locate and visit them.

Shopping

Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2025

In 2025, the lucky ones amongst us are having to make more considered choices about where we place our money, so were increasingly turning to lower-cost alternatives to manage our budgets. Mujis store layouts are a perfect example of this approach. No it would not, and so, sadly, here I am, harping on about it again.

Store Layout

CJ Retail Solutions

JULY 23, 2025

Leveraging data for pricing, promotions, and inventory management can lead to improved sales forecasting. This not only helps you meet customer demands but also optimizes your inventory management and reduces waste. Furthermore, data analytics can inform your decisions regarding store layout and design elements.

Visual Merchandising

365 Retail

JUNE 11, 2025

Primark will open its first dedicated Home store in Great Britain later this summer, choosing Trafford Palazzo in Manchester as the launch site. This will be the retailer’s second stand-alone Home location, following its inaugural opening in Belfast earlier this year. The upcoming 11,900 sq.

Store Layout

365 Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The new Liverpool store is designed to be a standout space, utilising a substantial double-height unit to create a signature retail experience. In line with UNIQLO’s considered store layout, the Liverpool ONE location will feature its full range of womenswear, menswear, and kidswear, along with its popular line of bags and accessories.

ATS

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

The Foam was designed to make retail locations “smart” by providing retailers with suggestions to improve operations, and creating more personalized shopping experiences for their customers. The Foam connects directly into pre-existing light fixtures at any retail space, including shopping centers, department stores or groceries.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

Circle K will pilot a touchless autonomous checkout solution in one of its Phoenix locations and plans to add the technology to other store locations.

Checkout

Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Located in a strategic hub easily reached by train, BRIDGE attracts both travellers as well as local foodies wanting to make sustainable purchases at the new food Mecca & discover a continuously changing offer of regional flavours. For BRIDGE, apart from the permanent cooking stations, all other furnishing elements are 100% flexible.

Location

Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

Retailers are grappling with ever-multiplying channels, and managing disparate touchpoints while trying to create a seamless, excellent omnichannel experience. This is a comprehensive approach that extends beyond online sales to encompass various critical aspects of retail operations, with inventory management and pricing at its core.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2022

Through their long-term partnership, which reached a whole new level of value during the pandemic, Vans has reduced overall time spent documenting store concepts by 25%. Using the IWD Display solution, VMs can build out 3D models of Vans’ stores to use for monthly and seasonal planning. A Process Reset, Powered by Partnership.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They can identify key customer-traffic patterns within a brick-and-mortar store to help merchants optimize store layout. Video analytics can help reduce long queues by determining if groups are backing up in line near cash registers, automatically alerting managers that more help is needed at these locations.

Merchant Services

Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

Despite the numerous obstacles the retailer faced in 2020, Jeanswest managed to retain the trust and loyalty of consumers, recently taking the title of Clothing Store of the Year 2020 in the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards.

Payment Services

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Case management functions in omnichannel survey platforms have the power to provide proactive support. Delivery Complaints: Using an omnichannel experience management platform, purchase orders and issues can be shared across the whole supply chain to drive communication and synergy.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

But rather than a sign of storefront abandonment, experts are expecting retailers to consolidate their locations, to pare down their real estate portfolio and focus their resources on a couple of choice locations. Although competition in the market will shift, physical store locations will remain a cornerstone of retail operations.

Fulfillment

365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

From business operations to customer behaviour, store layout is vitally important for many reasons which may seem inconsequential or unnoticeable to the untrained eye. But with retail footfall gradually increasing in the UK , you’ll want to do everything you can to make your store a roaring success. . Sales strategy.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2024

But regardless of whether you’re a retailer with 10 locations or hundreds, measuring logistics performance is critical to business success. Setting up predictable delivery windows with exact delivery times for seamless inventory and labor management can ensure you have the right labor in place to quickly load or unload vehicles.

Inventory Turnover

Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I think this really takes us to another level, especially being in the sporting capital of Australia,” Gary Williams, Rebel’s managing director, told Inside Retail. The first RCX store, designed in partnership with Sydney-based retail agency The General Store, opened at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre in March 2020.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Amidst this flux, Best Buy is exploring new formats, Walmart is planning extensive renovations, Amazon is venturing into lower-priced chains and Whole Foods is introducing small-format stores tailored for quick-trip urban consumers. The easiest, most user-friendly store design will not succeed unless the offering also appeals.

Checkout

Wiser

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether you’re a small business owner or a manager of a large retail establishment, you’ll find that foot traffic data can offer you the valuable insights needed to enhance your business operations and boost revenue. Foot traffic data can also be leveraged to optimize store layouts.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2021

The systems can send alerts whenever the store occupancy limit has been reached or there’s a high concentration of shoppers in the same location. Many stores have posted marks on their floors to remind customers to stand at least six feet apart. Social Distancing. They must also find a way to stay in the black.

Store Layout

Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

As much as brands experiment with pop-up store formats, concepts, or themes, they should resonate with consumers as much as they do with their identity. Is brand identity important in designing exceptional pop-up stores? This generally includes elements such as signage, colour palette, lighting, and overall store layout.

Visual Merchandising

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Design concepts and even merchandise assortments are further customized based on the facility’s geographic location. Then the Hydra team can drill into top-performing categories and use traditional retail metrics, such as monthly performance and revenue per square foot, to further optimize the store layout, experience and services.

Beauty and Health

Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s basically the harmonious union of merchandising, product placement and store layout (online or physical) to get the most bang from the season and provide a competitive advantage. This is all managed by the store grading. More on this later. Why is assortment planning important?

Planning

365 Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With a network of over 275 stores throughout Europe, the brand has already made a considerable international impact and has set ambitious targets for the UK market. The brand’s unique labyrinthine store layout will be a new feature for London shoppers, as Søstrene Grene continues its UK expansion.

Planning

Wiser

AUGUST 13, 2019

Ensure your inventory management is working properly. Optimize Category Management. Does your store stock what consumers want to buy? Big basket sizes are partly the result of optimal category management, where you sell the best items in the market across a specific range of categories. Innovate Your Store Layout.

Marketing

365 Retail

JULY 11, 2024

A game of two halves To make the most of the Euros, retailers need to adopt a multifaceted approach that includes staff training, optimised labour scheduling, effective merchandising, strategic store layouts, queue management, engaging signage and customer feedback mechanisms.

Store Layout

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On one hand, personal safety and security are still top-of-mind for consumers, driving changes in everything from online shopping to brick-and-mortar store layouts and delivery models. In many instances, it’s critical to rethink how shopping and sales take place, both at physical stores and online.

Consumer

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

By analyzing historical sales data, seasonality, and external factors such as weather and social trends, AI algorithms can help businesses make informed decisions about inventory management, pricing, and marketing strategies. Supply Chain Efficiency AI is also transforming supply chain management in the retail and CPG industries.

Marketing

Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2023

Look at the localised store format strategy that Starbucks and Aesop implement. Too many store formats use a ‘big-business’ local mentality that doesn’t actually relate to the location of the store. What are the functional aspects of the store, and how does that play into the local community?

Telecommunications

Wiser

JULY 31, 2023

Common Issues With Planogram Compliance One issue that brands often see when it comes to planogram compliance is inconsistent implementation across various store locations. By ensuring products are displayed as planned, retailers can optimize sales, enhance customer experience, and streamline inventory management.

Store Layout

365 Retail

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Lola’s Cupcakes has announced the upcoming opening of its newest London store, located just outside the iconic Greenwich Market at 11 Durnford Street, SE10 9BF. The store layout has been thoughtfully curated to cater to both quick visits and leisurely moments, providing a versatile space for customers to enjoy.

Marketing

A1 Retail

JULY 6, 2022

A first look at the upgraded and most cutting-edge Hobbycraft store yet, located in Wolverhampton, including brand new Haberdashery and Custom Crafting areas. Store Manager, Rachel comments: “It is brilliant to see the renovation completed. Prices start at £5 and can be booked online via Hobbycraft ClassBento.

Store Layout