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Making Your Store A Welcoming Space

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You have to be careful, however, about hitting shoppers or clients with a hard sell or your best products right when they enter, because it takes time for them to transition into a new space. How can you make this happen in your space? You can also call it your reception area, your lobby, or simply a welcoming zone. What to Display.

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What retailers can learn from Starbucks’ accessible store design

Inside Retail

This month, the American coffee chain Starbucks opened the first store to be built using its Inclusive Spaces Framework at Union Market in Washington, DC. The framework aims to bring more inclusive innovation in physical and digital spaces while enabling Starbucks to scale accessible design across its store portfolio.

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Rebel MD Gary Williams on taking experiential retail to the next level

Inside Retail

There is also a large communal space (still separate from the rest of the store) where customers can roll out yoga mats to check the fit and feel of items in front of a mirrored wall. With a modern couch and thoughtful styling, the space feels more like an upscale boutique than a national retail chain. “I

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What Rite Aid’s collapse reveals about the challenges of pharmacy retail

Inside Retail

Since filing for bankruptcy last week, pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid has received interim approval to access up to US$3.45 The fall of the pharmaceutical retail chain Rite Aid isn’t the only pharmaceutical retailer in the US that is facing financial challenges. These are the primary causes of its bankruptcy.”

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5 Key Considerations for Retail Floor Plan Design and Space Utilization

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Visit any two stores in a national retail chain and you will quickly notice similarities in the store design and layout. The successful chains – the ones we know by name – spend a great deal of effort and resources researching human psychology and buying habits. It’s no coincidence. There are several ways to lay out a store.

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Showcase Opens 2 More Stores in New York Area

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Showcase (Brampton, Ontario), a fast-growing retail chain that calls itself “Home to the Hottest Trends,” has opened two more New York-area stores, in the Hudson Valley and on Long Island. Those outlets join existing outlets in Brooklyn and Staten Island. We use that to clarify what the top trends are.

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For Singapore’s Capitaland, the mall comes roaring back

Inside Retail

million sqm of leasable commercial space, most of it in Singapore itself, is now on a different growth trajectory as one of the principal beneficiaries of the new trading environment. Retail occupancy is 98.3 Also, Capitaland’s sales are measured per square metre, while national retail sales are not normalised to the quantity of space.