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How boutique retailers won by discarding the department store playbook

Inside Retail

While household-name department stores are downsizing and closing their doors, multi-brand retail boutiques are succeeding by focusing on personalised shopping experiences. Of course, e-commerce has a crucial part to any brand, but in-store retail shopping gives you a sensory experience that online can’t. “Of

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Department Store Offers Shoppers a Calming, Biophilic Space

VMS

Originally scheduled for an October 2020 opening, the seventh location for this family-run department store was caught in the middle of the global predicament – to build or not to build, to cancel or push on? Opening any store requires an exact timeline. Each setback has a domino effect. With each delay, new challenges arose.

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Even Japan’s Takashimaya can’t escape department stores’ woes

Inside Retail

We have ‘iconic’ shopping centres, ‘iconic’ retail stores, ‘iconic’ restaurants, ‘iconic’ hotels, ‘iconic’ rock groups. But Takashimaya, a retailer of 1831 vintage and still the largest department store chain in Japan, is surely genuinely deserving of the word. The amount of department store floorspace declined by 6.1

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Retail’s new range: The evolution of merchandise planning

Inside Retail

This is creating new challenges for retail operations, including a particular demand for agile merchandise planning and supply-chain processes. These activities require frequent decisions on product assortment, store, and floor-space allocations. Australians are shopping online more than ever.

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Introducing Myriad Systems — A Versatile, Ready-to-Ship Merchandising System

Rose

In fact, 55% of first impressions are based on what we see , which means it’s crucial for retailers to add eye-catching displays and visuals that attract customers and command attention — especially to new products or brands that might otherwise get lost in the vast assortment of merchandise.

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Showfields and the bankruptcy of the ‘most interesting store in the world’

Inside Retail

The retailer used RetailNext’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to measure consumers’ shopping journeys through the store anonymously, gathering data such as sales figures, traffic figures, customers’ gender and more. Can Showfields make a comeback?

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What Is Visual Merchandising?

Creative Displays Now

Using these elements to bring attention to your brand is called visual merchandising. It’s a crucial strategy to make your products stand out in a competitive retail space. Effective visual merchandising can have a significant impact on your bottom line. Visual Merchandising Explained. Who Uses Visual Merchandising?