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Lighting – retail’s bright idea

Retail Focus

This is certainly true when it comes to lighting. Often underutilised, lighting is one of the most useful tools to retailers wanting to improve their store and make shopping a more memorable experience for consumers. She said it may be that existing lighting is retained or the number of lights is reduced to hit a budget.

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Entertainment Options to Keep You Energised on a Long Shopping Day

Retail Focus

Shopping can be an exhilarating experience, but even the most avid shopper needs a break after hours of walking and browsing through endless aisles of products. Relax in a Café or Bookshop One of the most classic ways to take a break during a shopping spree is by visiting a café or a cosy bookshop.

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Why focusing is an essential part of retail lighting

Retail Focus

If you think lighting installation is the final step in a beautifully lit retail environment, think again. Although it can be easily missed, light focusing is a final step that is key to making retail lighting more purposeful and impactful. The process involves adjusting beam angles and the spacing of the light fittings.

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How technology can drive meaningful engagement between store staff and shoppers

Inside Retail

Consumers shopping in physical stores are seeking a more personalised and relevant engagement with retailers today, based on their needs and desires – they want more than conversations with sales associates merely trying to sell them something. Store associates are lucky if they can engage beyond ‘How can I help you?’

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How high-tech, dazzling retail displays are engaging today’s consumers

Inside Retail

As Australian retailers see consumers returning to in-person shopping, the drive to present eye-catching fitouts to a digital-savvy customer base has become critical in strengthening brands and creating unique and immersive shopping experiences.

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Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers?

Retail Focus

If you walk up and down the aisles of supermarkets, clothes shops or even furniture stores, you will notice that more brands are shouting about their commitment to protecting the environment, be it via packaging or marketing messages. This range of bio-polymer luminaires go beyond being your average retail lighting products.

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What it takes to build the most sustainable shopping centre in New Zealand

Inside Retail

Bayfair Shopping Centre has been at the forefront of sustainability efforts in New Zealand for the last two decades. Now, the retail hub has been certified with a four-star green performance rating by the New Zealand Green Building Council and, in turn, become New Zealand’s most sustainable shopping centre.

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