Retail Focus

MARCH 31, 2022

FoundPop will be exhibiting at the 2022 Visual Merchandising and Display Show. FoundPop’s versatile furniture range has been delivering affordable rental services across multiple retail sectors including fashion, jewellery, beauty and lifestyle in numerous high street, discount outlet and department stores across the UK and Europe.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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. Retailers are finding omnichannel fulfilment complex.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

It could also potentially offer to divest its My Chemist and or the My Beauty Spot chains to focus on its format warehouse stores which are estimated to generate around 70 percent of sales from retail merchandise. The Premier brands could also provide the department stores with expanded merchandise range options.

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Jahabow

JULY 9, 2021

Selling great products is one way to boost your retail business’s bottom line, but even the best inventory will languish on your shelves without the right merchandising strategy in place. The best way to get shoppers inside your store is to lure them in with your window displays. Start With the Windows. Rotate Displays Regularly.

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VMS

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The retail and tech punditry were abuzz following a recent report from The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) spelling out what Amazon (Seattle) has planned for its department stores, the e-commerce giant’s latest foray into brick and mortar. The stores could open next year and are likely to debut in Ohio and California.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Macy’s has been stepping up to the plate with a series of new moves, from the expansion of its smaller-footprint stores, to a new digital fashion platform targeting younger shoppers. But while these initiatives sound promising, the question remains: can the department store chain truly adapt to the needs of the modern-day consumer?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Earlier this month, several members of the Nordstrom family, including the company’s CEO Erik Nordstrom and president Pete Nordstrom, offered to acquire the legacy department store chain for US$3.8 The department store division has various structural challenges, while the off-price Rack division is starting to produce some good growth.

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Creative Displays Now

MARCH 8, 2022

Using these elements to bring attention to your brand is called visual merchandising. Effective visual merchandising can have a significant impact on your bottom line. This guide will explain visual merchandising and how to use it to promote your products. Visual Merchandising Explained. Who Uses Visual Merchandising?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The evidence is showing up most clearly in the reports coming out of the big department store chains, where the strength is increasingly concentrated in a few flagship stores rather than being distributed across their entire store fleets. The company’s 14 luxury department stores in Japan reported out 4.5

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VMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Department store Macy’s (New York) has entered a partnership with WHP Global to offer Toys “R” Us products to shoppers, reports Forbes. Macy’s will roll out Toys “R” Us stores inside more than 400 of its department stores next year. WHP has a controlling interest in Toys “R” Us parent company Tru Kids Inc.

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Rose

JULY 28, 2023

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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

billion while department stores climbed 2.1 .” Other categories, which include cosmetics, sports and recreational goods, had the highest growth of 6.5 per cent with sales amounting to $5.75 Food sales grew 3.8 per cent to $14.53 per cent to $1.92 Clothing, footwear, and accessories rose 2 per cent to $3.04 per cent to $5.80

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the retailer’s establishment in 1858, Macy’s has become one of the most well-known department stores in the US, if not the world. Like many retailers, both in the US and internationally, Macy’s has been impacted by the decline in consumer interest in shopping in traditional department stores amidst the rise of online shopping.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 27, 2024

This led to increased spending on clothing, merchandise, accessories and dining out,” ABS head of retail statistics Ben Dorber said. Department stores’ sales increased 3.7 “Looking past the temporary and one-off impact of the Taylor Swift concerts, underlying growth in retail turnover was up only 0.1

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Aptos develops and delivers unified commerce solutions for specialty softlines, hardlines and department store chains in North America, Europe, Asia and ANZ. Specifically, we develop point of sale, merchandising, order management, CRM, sales audit and analytics solutions.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2023

For smaller companies like Pop Up Grocer, which opened its first permanent bricks-and-mortar store in March in New York City’s West Village, that includes curating a well-rounded selection of independently owned food, beverage and lifestyle products for consumers to explore through in-store shopping and events and via a monthly subscription box.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The Westons are said to be seeking £4 billion for their European department store assets, including Selfridges’ four stores in the UK, Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland, and De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands. Central’s superregional malls and department stores are ubiquitous in Thailand.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

During rumbles, teams split up and undergo a visual merchandising blitz, ensuring that the entire store is well-maintained throughout the day. M&S team members are also stationed at different parts of the store during specific busy times, ensuring they are always available for customers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

“The mix that we’ve got is really good and allows the consumer to experience the brand in different ways, where we maintain a direct voice with them, but we also support our retail partners to add their own flavour and merchandise the brand and with your aesthetics as well,” Barnes added.

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VMS

MAY 4, 2021

The S&P Retail ETF closed Monday posting 2 percent gains thanks to the rallies of retail stocks in the apparel and department store sectors. Shares of department stores experienced strong growth, with Dillard’s closing up 9.7 percent, Macy’s closing up 8 percent and Nordstrom gaining 6 percent.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Here, Brennan details how she turned that opportunity into a retail career, working as the senior buyer for women’s designer fashion at UK department store Harvey Nichols, women’s merchandising manager at The Just Group and head of buying at Glue Store. This is what I love most about my job.

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VMS

APRIL 20, 2021

Iconic department store brand Lord & Taylor, now owned by The Saadia Group (New York), will relaunch online as a “digial collective store”, according to a press release. The brand promises exclusive collaborations, new merchandise assortments and a robust private label offering in the near future.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Just this week, American department store chain Nordstrom announced a unique collaboration with the British fashion brand Paul Smith. The founder of the eponymous brand highlighted another similarity between his business and the department store chain. “I

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

Luxury department store Harvey Nichols recently announced the opening of the first blue-chip non-fungible token (NFT) retail space at its Pacific Place Hong Kong store. Physical stores are seeking to understand their place in the digital economy and align with this cultural phenomenon. Entering the NFT merch era.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 28, 2021

But ensuring the space made an impact amidst a busy department store was important too. Elsewhere, lightboxes with campaign imagery add impact and double as handy shelving fixtures to display key merchandise. Lucky Fox wanted to keep the scheme super light and contemporary to echo the minimalist aesthetic of the brand.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The company’s latest business update for the Stock Exchange of Thailand states that The Chalong mall has 17,000sqm of net leasable area, and is anchored by an 8,000sqm Robinson department store. On the ground floor is the large, single-level Robinson department store that caterpillars up one side of the mall.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

While the vast majority of the French-headquartered company’s sales are still wholesaled through department stores and travel retailers, Moet Hennessy is starting to open more of its own stores in airports, stores-in-stores and standalone boutiques, typically located in the luxury precincts of major international cities.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Last month, American luxury department store Nordstrom announced a partnership with Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, to sponsor product management coursework and a mentorship program. ” At first glance, it may seem an unlikely initiative for a traditional luxury department store to champion.

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VMS

AUGUST 31, 2021

Renovation: Department Store. Scope of work : Continue the location’s evolution from traditional department store to a targeted destination for luxury goods and services. What sets this project apart : In terms of store planning, the new design of the Santa Fe department store seeks to engage with shoppers at every turn.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2023

Last month, the department store reported its highest interim profit since 2014. To pull it off, you need to give a lot of thought to merchandising and pricing. It worked for the House of Fraser in the UK when King was running the show over there during the GFC, and it looks to be working for Myer.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Being a retailer as well as a shopping centre brand, the centre is anchored, like Aeon 1 and Aeon Sen Sok, by one of Aeon’s own massive department stores, which sits on two levels and covers an area of 16,000sqm. Both Glam Boutique and Aeon Wellness are well established in neighboring Vietnam, where there are eight stores.

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VMS

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Information on how many workers are left at the department store chain’s HQ was not immediately available. About 60 people at Kohl’s (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) corporate headquarters have lost their jobs, according to published reports in several publications and news sites, including Retail Dive.

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VMS

JANUARY 25, 2022

(Newport Beach, Calif.) – made an offer to purchase the department store retailer Kohl’s (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) It reportedly told the department store retailer that it obtained a “highly confident” letter from a bank ensuring their ability to attain a debt-financing package. Acacia has a market value of $215 billion.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

The first store will open later this year at The Americana at Brand, a shopping centre in Los Angeles, and reportedly be around 30,000 square feet – much smaller than a typical department store, which is around 100,000 square feet. Winners and losers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2024

It is on track to drive US$300 million in annual gross merchandise value by 2027. It’s all about experience Selvane Mohandas du Ménil, the managing director of the International Association of Department Stores, said there are three main types of retailers that cater to the 1 per cent.

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VMS

MAY 18, 2021

Department store Macy’s (New York) reported unexpected first-quarter profits, raising its full-year forecast thanks to momentum building among consumers, according to CNBC. The post Macy’s Posts Surprise 1Q Profit appeared first on Visual Merchandising and Store Design. Comparable sales grew an impressive 62.5

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VMS

JUNE 14, 2021

department store Selfridges & Co. Shoppers would come to the store and experience things for the first time. They always have something new going on, and I would say they’re one of the best department stores globally.”. The owners of iconic U.K. billion, reports Vogue Business.

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