Retail Design

LED Jewelry Showcase Lighting Can Make Your Store Stand Out

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Creative use of LED lighting in jewelry display cases can be part of a strategy make your retail store stand out from the competition. LED lighting provides super white light that makes gems sparkle and pop visually. Combining premium visual merchandising and display technologies with customer engagement can differentiate a store from its [Read More]

Green Retail

Get the Best Jewelry Display with Super White Light LED Tube Fixtures.

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Taking advantage of the super white light produced by high quality LED light fixtures is one of the biggest design trends in jewelry display case lighting. LED showcase lighting is fairly new technology to many retailers and designers, so it is important to understand that not all LED light tube fixtures are created equal. One of the most important features determining the quality of the light produced by the LED fixture and also the longevity of the LED light source is the manufacturing technique used to attach and power the LED [Read More]

Retail Design

The Power of Visual Merchandising

Great story yesterday from NPR on the power of visual merchandising. In this case it’s not Barbie World’s pink profusion, or Apple’s interactive temple, or Macy’s famous Christmas windows. Rather, the subject of such intense merchandising attention and prowess is the lowly vegetable. Perhaps even the most plebeian varieties such as yams and broccoli.

A couple of [Read More]

Green Retail

Jewelry Display Cases and Jewelry Showcases Use Green LED Lighting

ProBeam LED lighting for jewelry display cases and retail showcases

Conversion to LED lighting is the newest trend in lighting for jewelry display cases.
If you’re opening or remodeling a jewelry store, invest in retail display lighting that adds flair to your product while protecting the environment and lowering your energy [Read More]

Retail Design

Retailers Want In Store Social Shopping MeetUp With Online Social Shopping

I love Wikipedia’s definition for social shopping:

“Social Shopping is a method of e-commerce where shoppers’ friends become involved in the shopping experience. Social shopping attempts use technology to mimic the social interactions found in physical malls and stores.”

Really? Social shopping “mimics” real world shopping?…I don’t think so.

Do we question and share our recommendations with [Read More]

Retail Construction

My Microsoft Retail Store Is Better Than Your Apple Retail Store

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In early 2009 Microsoft announced it would be opening retail stores in a similar vein to the wildly popular Apple stores. In fact they planned to open them right next door to Apple’s retail outlets.  The public response had all the trapping of the Republican / Democrat debate over health care legislation! This grand plan has been [Read More]

Retail Design

Retailers Localize For Success

The best independent retailers know how to become integrated into the local lifestyle of their customers. From the merchandise they select, to the way they display it, from their store design to the way they advertise, they use every bit of local knowledge and intuition to weave themselves into the everyday local life of their community [Read More]

Retail Visual Merchandising

Improved Visual Merchandising Sells Organic and Nutritional Products

If you are selling organic, health related or nutritional products you should take a look at this recently offered four part series of one page visual merchandising guides. These one page “cheat sheets” provide a wealth of visual merchandising ideas and information specifically focused on selling organic nutritional products.

Creating engaging and impactful window displays with [Read More]