Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most recently, when fashion and accessories retailer Primark unveiled its 450 th store worldwide at the Florida Mall in Orlando, it announced it would have an entire floor dedicated to its growing partnership with Disney — a new kind of experience for the blossoming retailer, although certainly not the last.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

The Regent Street store also will feature a state-of-the-art breaking studio (for live and taped openings of card packs), interactive customer education touch points and a personal card creation suite. The location also will serve as a drop-off point for users of Fanatics Collect, the collectibles marketplace Fanatics launched in June 2024.

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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

Uncontained also will support the premium Container Store Custom Spaces offering with on-trend finishes, hardware and features such as smarthome compatible lighting. The Container Store also has plans to add more brick-and-mortar locations; in June 2022 it announced it would add 74 new stores by 2027.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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. This is a new reality for typical projects, according to Cornelius, and it is why her firm has changed its vernacular from “store design” to “experience design.”

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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. As a result, stores have had to develop operational competencies that allow them to consistently add 30 to 50 new styles to the floor every single week, according to Dres.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

one of its three main markets by 2026, Mango plans to operate 42 stores in the country by the end of 2024. The apparel retailer also plans to open more than 20 locations next year, primarily in the Sun Belt and Northeast, according to CNBC. The retailer’s target is to operate approximately 65 U.S.

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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. store openings going forward. The retailer generated net sales of $7.3

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2025

Following the successful debut of its initial large-format store in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill. in May 2024 , Wayfair will open its second large-format store next year in Atlanta. In May 2022 Wayfair opened its first AllModern store format in Lynnfield, Mass. overall through the end of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

CardVault by Tom Brady will open a flagship location later this month at the American Dream mall in Rutherford, N.J., The 1,200-square-foot store will offer rare and premium trading cards, authentication services and an exclusive VIP trading experience. next to MetLife Stadium, home field for the NFLs Jets and Giants.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

Sustainability is good for business, and architects and designers are critical advisors in retailers’ trajectories toward a more sustainable future through the design process of physical locations. To lead by example, old or retired products can be used as a “building” material or for visual merchandising displays.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Another of their best features is that they’re agile and allow retailers to try out new locations. So retailers can use pop-ups to validate a location, try out a new concept or for the release of a new product. Plenert: There are technical challenges that vary depending on the type of location. Another issue is permitting.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Apps that allow shoppers to preview and locate in-store inventory, do virtual try-ons, identify sales and cash in on personalized promotions and rewards are popular. In fact, most consumers (61%) report that they consider their smartphone “very important” while shopping in stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

Not only is AR more interactive and engaging, providing digital training as employees navigate stores and equipment, but it can also be less expensive than traditional methods, such as sending training teams to store locations. AR Merchandising. AR visual merchandising automates manual store planning processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Foot Locker will launch its first “store of the future” in Willowbrook, N.J. next month, with an additional three stores planned for later in 2024.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

Dick’s plans to open a total of 16 50K stores in 2024, consisting of 12 relocations or remodels and four new stores. Dick’s also will open eight new House of Sport locations in 2024, consisting of seven relocations/conversions and one new store at Boston’s Prudential Center. In terms of capital, it will take about $11.5

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

Foot Locker has unveiled its new store format, which includes a communal sneaker try-on area to facilitate “sneaker culture” conversations and technology that provides store associates with omnichannel inventory availability data. The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J.,

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2024

expansion in New York City with plans for a new flagship location. This will be the brand’s 11 th store in New York; its newest location in Queens will open later this year. “Opening a location in the epicenter of U.S. Primark is continuing its rapid U.S. ” said Kevin Tulip, Primark U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2022

Located within its Emirati cultural hub, Zeman Awwal, the market, open April 12-30, 2022, will celebrate Ramadan traditions through jewelry, fashion, arts, crafts and culinary experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In 2024 alone, the brand opened new locations in key American markets, including Times Square and Tangram in New York and the American Dream Mall in New Jersey. Miniso Brings Beloved Sanrio Store Concept to Australia The brand’s most recent venture brings one of Miniso’s IP collection concept shops down under.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Ahorra Mucho (which translates directly to “Save A Lot”) store will have specialized features such as a full-service, centrally located meat counter, a cornerstone of Hispanic cooking. The store will operate as a test-and-learn facility, designed to generate insights to facilitate strategies for serving Hispanic customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

Whether a retail location, office building, hotel or healthcare environment, designing to support client objectives requires bringing to bear as much relevant information as possible. For physical retail locations, data and analysis are indispensable for navigating a rapidly evolving and ever-changing marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. s Mosaic District — its first-ever location.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The unique retailer, which houses brands’ products for a fee and rotates its assortment every few months, closed its Showfields Miami location in July 2023 and its Manhattan store, Showfields NoHo , in September. Stores in the Washington, D.C. Georgetown district and in Brooklyn remain open. million.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In November 2023 Lego stores in New York and London created holiday windows that allowed for a transatlantic digital snowball fight, and Lego incorporated “space dust” into bricks and showcased them at eight stores in June 2024.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For both new and existing stores, these requirements span store build-out, energy and water, responsible sourcing of materials, visual merchandising, store operations and innovation.”

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VMS

JANUARY 25, 2022

Sears location. The company also sold some land it owned adjacent to the location to RK Centers, which is planning to build a mixed-use development on the site. Coresight Research (New York), according to Retail Dive , recently tallied the remaining Kmart stores and found five operational. Lauderdale, Fla.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Now the retailer is ready to resume rolling out more enhanced brick-and-mortar locations, starting with recent store openings in Paramus, N.J. Over the next seven to eight years , the retailer plans to refresh its entire fleet of 850 stores. and Sherman Oaks, Calif.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2024

While the retailer will be focused on improving existing store experiences at scale moving forward, Best Buy is planning to “open a few additional outlet centers and new formats to continue to test two important concepts,” said Barry.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Open, light-filled, high-visibility store environments are harder to steal from without being seen, and they also happen to be more pleasing to shop. In other cases, crime is more intense (see the viral videos of thefts at downtown drug and luxury department stores). This can reduce customer waits and frustration.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The collection will be available online and via the Target app and, in select stores, at a dedicated Kendra Scott at Target experience within the jewelry and accessories department that will feature branding, styling mirrors and more. Target stores in Edina, Minn.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2022

For the first time in over a decade, there is the opportunity to snatch up iconic locations that may not have been available before. In New York City, locations like Rockefeller Center, SoHo, or Flatiron — whose asking rents 10 years ago would have been catastrophic — can now be had more affordably.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP also will build up the brand’s presence in Mexico with IB Group and grow its brick-and-mortar footprint in Central America via its partnership with Fastco , including four new Express stores in key locations through 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

However, on a recent visit to its first New York City location, product selection and quality seemed lacking and more akin to what you would find in a gas station rest stop. The easiest, most user-friendly store design will not succeed unless the offering also appeals.

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