Retail Focus

JANUARY 18, 2023

Visual merchandising can help you do just that, but it can also be costly. Fortunately, there are plenty of budget-friendly ways to create a visually appealing store. In this blog post, we’ll explore some creative ideas for visual merchandising on a budget that small businesses can use to make a big impact.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The formula is simple: take functional everyday items, redesign them imaginatively with eye-catching colour, texture and packaging, price them accessibly, showcase them with immaculate visual merchandising and make the shopping experience fun, and watch the customers come in droves. Both are big on new product introductions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2025

Bath & Body Works has introduced its new Gingham+ store design in more than 15 locations, including stores in South Korea, Los Angeles and Texas, and plans to continue rolling out the refreshed aesthetic in a majority of its planned U.S. and Canada as well as 525+ international franchised locations. 1, 2025, a 1.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2025

However, home improvement retailer Lowes has leveraged AI-powered solutions to create 3D digital twins of all its stores, each of which is now being updated multiple times per day to accurately reflect whats going on in the real-world brick-and-mortar location.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

At the core of the store design program is a framework to assess retail stores and to inform the design of ELC visual merchandising, based on sustainability-related areas including waste reduction, water and energy conservation and responsible material sourcing. Iannuzzi: We have several vehicles and champions for this work.

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VMS

JULY 21, 2021

Foxtrot (Chicago), the high-end convenience/corner store concept, is planning to open 50 stores throughout the U.S. It plans to open locations in regions like Houston, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Austin, Texas; it already has locations in Washington, D.C., during the next two years, reports Supermarket News.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Florida Mall location spans more than 36,200 square feet of retail selling space across two stories, where consumers can shop for the latest trends and everyday products for the entire family. Primark also plans to bring back beloved Primark exclusives, like Disney’s Mickey Mouse x Keith Haring collection.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

Kato-Yokoyama: A lot of retailers are looking at their physical footprint in terms of things like the accessibility of transit and whether people have the ability to walk to the location. When we do master planning, were looking at the makeup of transportation and how it relates to malls or other types of retail venues.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The retailer also has transformed one of its Plano, Texas locations into a concept store to test visual merchandising strategies designed to bring new and existing brands to life in unique ways. The Container Store has been steadily enhancing its offerings as it has redefined its brand beyond containers and organizing solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

next month, with an additional three stores planned for later in 2024. Foot Locker will launch its first “store of the future” in Willowbrook, N.J. Elements from these stores will be applied to our 2025 openings and beyond.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consistency Across Locations. Brands need design solutions that fit their portfolio of locations, including urban, suburban, shopping mall, shop-in-shops and other store types. The store environment must therefore be flexible, enabling the fast turnover of merchandise.

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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. A New Take on Location, Location, Location. That is just the way we are.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2025

Princess Polly positions itself right in the center of the Gen Z zeitgeist, and its newest physical location also has surrounded itself with young brands. The logistics for us, on the East Coast and West Coast, [means] it takes time to get stock over to those locations. Key markets include Miami; Glendale, Calif.;

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

For the coming fiscal year, the retailer is planning $800 million in CapEx expenditures to fund a major brick-and-mortar expansion that will enlarge its total store square footage by 2% — its largest physical expansion since 2017. Dick’s Sporting Goods posted strong results in fiscal 2023, which ended Feb. increase in comp store sales.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The temporary nature of the pop-up has allowed us to focus on curating an experience, we could replicate in other locations as we scale. GP: When designing the customer experience for our pop-up, we took inspiration from luxury stores and closely studied their visual merchandising and how they engaged customers.

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VMS

AUGUST 6, 2021

Little Caesar’s (Detroit) announced its plans to open at least 15 new units in Denver by 2024, according to a company press release. The company that operates both franchise and company-owned stores already has more than 30 locations in the city. Craig Sherwood, VP of U.S.

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VMS

APRIL 15, 2021

Macy’s (New York) has announced plans to open 45 Backstage shop-in-shops in select Macy’s locations in 10 different states this year, according to Retail Dive. Morgan’s 7 th annual Retail Round-Up conference that the department store company was planning more standalone Backstage stores in addition to the shop-in-shops.

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VMS

JULY 19, 2021

Columbus, Ohio) is planning to debut three “test” locations by this fall. It’s dubbing the concept “store of the future” and is planning to rollout another 10 test locations by 2022, reports CNBC. The company has been working on paring down its store count over the years to focus on higher performing locations.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 3, 2023

We plan to refresh the range with more styles and colours while ensuring the core of the business is strengthened. With increased bricks-and-mortar locations, a rebuild of the brand, additional ranges, fresh stock and enhanced designs, we can replicate the enormous success of Colette [as] aligned to the TDE Customer.

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VMS

JULY 8, 2021

The discount retailer plans to add dental, nutritional, cold/cough products among other health care-related offerings. population lives within at least five miles of a Dollar General location. The post Dollar General Plans Push into Health Care appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

WHP Global has licensed Toys ‘R’ Us shops for two Navy Exchange Service Command ( NEXCOM ) stores, with plans for additional locations in 2025. The shop-in-shops will launch this fall at NEX Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., followed by the NEX in Jacksonville, Fla. “To

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It can help save time and reduce costs, while ensuring that teams at remote locations are collaborating efficiently. Using AR also lets you automate many of your manual planning processes, allowing you to focus on what’s important: providing a top-notch retail environment for your customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Spirit Halloween will operate a record-breaking 1,525 brick-and-mortar stores this season, adding more than 400 locations to its 1,100 -store footprint by the end of September. The retailer plans to hire thousands of associates as stores open on a rolling basis. Jobseekers can visit Work4Spirit.com or text “Reaper” to 85000.

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VMS

JUNE 7, 2021

has announced its plans to close its locations during the U.S. The mass merchant joins similar retailers, like Target (Minneapolis) which announced its plans to close its stores for Thanksgiving this past January, CNBC reports. Walmart (Bentonville, Ark.) Thanksgiving holiday this November.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Over the past nine months, Men’s Wearhouse parent company Tailored Brands says it has launched more than 30 new digital capabilities, including buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), contactless measurement and curbside pickup, all of which play into the new, connected brick-and-mortar locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to loom over the globe, retailers are now also assessing guidelines and developing plans to adapt their store experiences to the changing times. AR Merchandising. AR visual merchandising automates manual store planning processes. IoT Controller.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

The retailer is planning to open a second Australia location with a brick-and-mortar store in Sydney later in 2022. The new location features a station that offers Lids’ popular embroidery services for on-site customization of jerseys and hats.

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CJ Retail Solutions

AUGUST 2, 2024

Additionally, merchandising plays a crucial role in driving sales and maximizing revenue. Strategically placing high-margin or popular items in prime store locations can increase impulse purchases and upsells. By leveraging merchandising strategies, retailers can create a more profitable and successful business model.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J., for additional reinvented stores it will open in 2024 , including at the brand’s NYC flagship and locations in Paris, Melbourne and Delhi.

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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 small-format store, due to space constraints alone, avoids this issue.

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VMS

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Mad Lords (Paris) is planning to expand its footprint with an additional three stores in 2022, Forbes reports. The fine jewelry boutique is planning to open new locations in Belgium, Brussels, and another on Rue St. The three stores are also in addition to the brand’s piercing bar and its location in Deauville, France.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

We are also excited to partner even more with our vendors this year as it relates to their branded in-store merchandise experiences,” Barry added, identifying Tesla, Lovesac and Starlink as examples of planned vendor partnerships. Best Buy closed 24 stores in FY 2024 and plans to close 10 to 15 in FY 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

1 — the brand’s fourth location in New York City. A number of events are already planned at the store this month, including: Wellbeing Wednesday — Holiday Mindset Workshop , Dec. This Athleta location also offers products from Athleta Girl. 7, 2022; Movement Monday with obé Fitness – Pilates , Dec. 12, 2022; and.

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VMS

MAY 12, 2021

The proposed plan also includes a private investment by Macy’s – roughly $235 million – to update the public spaces surrounding its flagship, like the pedestrian-friendly areas at Broadway Plaza and Herald Square, as well as subway access and transit connections. Macy’s hopes to keep Herald Square open during construction.

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VMS

APRIL 12, 2021

McDonald’s (Chicago) is planning to close hundreds of restaurants inside of mass merchant Walmart (Bentonville, Ark.), About 150 McDonald’s locations within Walmart will remain after the closures. The company plans to convert former McDonald’s in-store locations into other services or restaurant offerings. reports CNBC.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The project team following this method takes research and analysis of the target buyer groups and uses the data to craft the ideal visual positioning strategy, filtered through ROI expertise that suggests how best to elevate the in-store experience. Precision Watches showroom. Image courtesy AZA.

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