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]

Retail Design

Retail Social Networking Designing Retail Environments Pixels, People, and Bricks

I’m not usually a fan of yet another web site “enhanced” with social networking tools, but this case study of UK menswear chain TM Levin illustrates how powerfully a highly targeted, yet richly interactive online community component can enhance both ecommerce sales and in-store customer experience. Take a look at this presentation and then visit [Read More]

Retail Operations

Retail Observation and Store Surveillance Sells

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That camera in the ceiling, red light blinking at you as you search the rack for the perfect graphic tee…. it isn’t watching to see if your are stealing…. it’s watching to see how you shop!  While loss prevention surveillance is still an important part of retail operations, in-store cameras are often focused on catching [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]

Retail Design

Pop-up Retail Trending Down?

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Are temporary stores part of your marketing or expansion strategy? Maybe you already missed the boat! The keen observers at Racked suggest the pop-up store will go the way of the Dodo as the economy improves.

There are plenty of reasons to open a pop-up shop: building buzz, introducing new products, inspire impulse purchases, or to try [Read More]