October, 2020

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Popular Color Palettes by Decade

Onyx

With the new release of Sherwin Williams’ 2021 Color Forecast , we are taking a look back at some of the popular colors that really defined the last several decades. What events influenced certain colors to become popular and how do color trends change over time? We’ll look at some interesting events that define each decade and the popular color choices of people at the time.

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Six Holiday 2020 Preparation Tips for Retailers

RetailMinded

This holiday season is going to look a little different than last year. The world has changed at an unprecedented rate, affecting consumer behaviors, revenue generation, and supply chain efficiency. . To make the most of this typically high-traffic sales season, retailers will have to be innovative and insightful. Here are six holiday preparation tips for retailers in 2020. .

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Recycled aluminium cans decorate exterior of Daily Paper's first US store

Dezeen

Over 13,000 flattened aluminium cans decorate the facade of Dutch fashion label Daily Paper's inaugural shop in the US, which has opened in Manhattan, New York. The two-storey Daily Paper store spans 1,140 square feet (106 square metres) and occupies a prominent corner building in Manhattan's Lower East Side. The Daily Paper store occupies a corner plot in Manhattan's Lower East Side.

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Retail Media - Win or Whine for Shopper Marketers

Shopperations

With promises of greater personalization and targeting capacity backed by point of sale data, retailers are inviting consumer goods marketers closer to shoppers with the launch of their own retail media platforms.

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Is Your Business AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

Generative AI is poised to redefine B2B, but scaling AI success in this space isn’t without obstacles. From fragmented data sources and complex buyer journeys to operational inefficiencies, the road to AI-powered growth can be challenging. To achieve a competitive edge, understanding your organization’s AI-readiness is essential. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model provides a quick, actionable way to assess your starting point.

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How STAR Brokerage Unlocked Their Retail Execution Potential

RepslyBlog

Food and beverage brokers know that managing the execution for a handful of brands across all of their retail channels is no easy task. As the link connecting their brand clients to shelf-level execution in stores, merchandisers have a huge responsibility to support the key programs of all of their brands as well as the thousands of stores they serve.

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Grafton firm develops health screening kiosk

Frank Mayer

This article appeared in the October 1, 2020 issue of the Ozaukee Press and has been reprinted with permission. Frank Mayer unveils temperature and health kiosk to help employees return to work safely. By JOE POIRIER, Ozaukee Press staff. Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. in Grafton recently developed a temperature and health-screening kiosk to help employees safely return to work during the coronavirus pandemic.

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How to Gain More Visibility For Your Online Store

RetailMinded

So, you’ve got an eCommerce store, but you’re unsure how to get more traffic to it? You’re in luck—we know exactly what you need to do to increase your web traffic and visibility. Whether you’re selling alternatives to tobacco products , CBD oil, organic food, or even iPhone cases, these strategies can work across all industries for a variety of products.

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Freitag's Sweat-Yourself-Shop is a tiny factory for making bags

Dezeen

Swiss brand Freitag has created a shop in Zurich, which is a "micro-factory" where customers can help make their own bag out of recycled tarpaulins. Named Sweat-Yourself-Shop, the interactive retail space on Grüngasse was designed by Freitag to take their existing customisation options one step further. Freitag bags are made of recycled truck tarpaulins.

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Cos, London

Retail Store Windows

We included Gina earlier this week with they wonderful mix of materials incorporated into their windows along Mount street. Here at Cos, on Regent st. there is a similar kind of vibe with possible Architectural references and maybe a part of the reconstructed legacy trend for 20/21 with influences which celebrate the future although with a nod to the past.

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How to Grow a Brand Ambassador Program at Scale

RepslyBlog

Brand ambassadors are an excellent way for CPG companies to expand awareness and reach a wider target audience. In its most basic form, the main role of brand ambassadors is to represent, promote, and engage your brand and its product within their local communities and networks.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt

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Bisnow - UK Office Summit - Michael Fern speaking

Edge

What do occupiers want and need? Michael Fern will be joined by fellow industry panelists When: Thursday 26 Nov Talk Slot: 10:30 AM Consumerisation Of Real Estate - What Occupiers Want - And Need? So far, real estate and its office clients are only in the first stages of exploring the technologies that can make their staff healthier, happy and more productive.

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S-CUBE Helps Shoe Show Fast-Track Retail Expansion Projects

Scrube

Shoe Show, a privately owned NC-based shoe store chain, was looking for a secondary fixture supplier to help facilitate their aggressive growth. They needed a supplier to serve a new expanding geographic area of the USA and that is when they found S-CUBE. With tight timelines as well as budget constraints, Shoe Show worked with the S-CUBE team to find innovative solutions to reduce the installation times at their new store locations, while at the same time maintaining the high level of quality o

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Seven Things You Should Never Do If You Want to Keep Customers

RetailMinded

There are several things you are supposed to do if you would like to succeed in business. It is good to plan your time as a business owner. Many businesses that succeed are planned and budgeted well. With time you would like to expand the business operation, and it will require a lot of money in terms of capital. . Ensure you invest in the right ideas, and they will help your business grow.

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Atelier L2 creates modular wooden interiors for Ateliers des Capucins

Dezeen

Rennes studio Atelier L2 has installed 20 wooden boxes as modular units for shops, exhibitions and hospitality businesses inside Ateliers des Capucins, a covered square in a 19th-century arsenal in Brest, France. The Ateliers des Capucins has been shortlisted for a Dezeen Awards 2020 in the large workspace interior category. The studio's brief was to design a number of shells in order to create an interior street with two floors inside the historical arsenal building, covering 5,000 square metre

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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Young London Collection

Retail Store Windows

Images Courtesy and Copyright Association Mannequins Just look at these little beauties. It is so wonderful to see realistic mannequins again after what seems like eons (well 2020 may prove to be even longer than that right now) of faceless eggheads or worse still, headless figures. Under the meticulous creative eye of the super talented creative director, Danny Letton, this gorgeous new collection was launched earlier this week capturing the zeitgeist on the street.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Global Shop Solutions ERP Software

Global Shop

If you’re looking at Global Shop Solutions as a possible ERP solution for your manufacturing business, you can find answers to the basic “Who are you and what do you do?” questions on our website. But you probably also have questions that are unique to your business. So we thought it would be a good idea to post some “drill down” questions that address specific issues regarding our ERP system.

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Smart Commercial Renovation Ideas For A Tight Budget

Fuhrmann Construction

All commercial businesses evolve over time. Spacing and functional needs change. Business focus moves in a different direction. Perhaps who uses the space also changes. Or maybe its time for a quick refresh to inject some new life into your commercial building. Commercial renovation projects can be expensive. They often go over budget and can pose some financial risk.

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Décor Solutions Open New Growth Avenues for Printers

Ultra Flex

Is your printing business facing tough times? We have an idea that could help printers expand into new markets, fuel profits and keep customers coming back for more. Now is a great time to offer décor solutions that turn on the WOW factor in any space, from corporate lobbies to golf carts. Wherever people work, shop, play, study or even stand, décor solutions can create a more vibrant, compelling environment.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an

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Whose Most Secure: PayPal Vs. Square

RetailMinded

Small business owners often have to deal with payment processing. That’s where platforms like Square and PayPal support merchants to have streamlined payments delivered to them from their customers. . Square was famous for its in-person sales processing, where the use of mobile card readers was the primary source of transactions. On the contrary, PayPal became a popular platform for payments using the online mode.

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Nendo completes Marsotto showroom in Milan with dimpled marble facade

Dezeen

Passersby can perch in the facade of Italian marble brand Marsotto 's new showroom in Milan , which has been designed by multidisciplinary studio Nendo. From afar, the front of Marsotto 's showroom in Milan's Brera district looks as if it's sealed up by blocks of veiny white marble. To achieve this, Nendo lined the entire facade – including the flush front door – in marble tiles, being careful to set them in line with the existing stonework on the building.

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Fendi, London

Retail Store Windows

This is a rather gentle scheme from this brand right now and let's face it we all need a bit that right now. Soft pastel tones and a slick, simple environment with, as always, gorgeous products is their latest offer. As London becomes colder, darker and currently more rain than we know what to do with this is a very comforting scheme. Check out our fantastic sponsors below for incredible Visual Merchandising solutions or click on the banners on the side of the main page at www.retailstorewindows

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The Lipstick Effect - Industrial at the Ready

Edge

“In a changing world, whilst the roles of the High Street and City Centres are being re-written - a surge in online shopping is causing an increase in demand for the multi-let industrial and warehousing sector”. Director, Aberdeen Standard Investment The Lipstick Effect During WW11 sales of lipstick skyrocketed. It was a way people could claim back control, in an otherwise daunting world.

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Industry Shake-Up: 2023 Commerce Trends To Rock Your World

Speaker: Ashlee Aldridge - Reach Partners LLC | Bill Mirabito - Chameleon Collective | Ronak Shah - PSA Retail & CPG, Amazon Web Services | Wayne Teigen - Pivotree

What trends can online merchants expect after more than two years of exponential growth? Companies must expand on the trends that exploded during the pandemic if they want to see continued growth in their businesses while facing a recessionary economy. From social commerce to BOPIS, the name of the game is to meet and sell to customers wherever they are, through multiple channels.

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#RetailProphetAMA: How Digital Will Transform Retail

Retail Prophet

Ian Rogers is no stranger to the digital world. In fact, his whole career was built on it. A graduate in computer science from Indiana University, Rogers started his career in 1993 as a webmaster successively for Beastie Boys and at Winamp (sold to AOL in 1999). In 2001 he founded Mediacode, which was sold to Yahoo in 2003, where he became VP and General Manager, Music.

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And afterwards what?

Retail Design Master

Physical distancing. Image created by Samuel Rodriguez. Submitted for United Nations Global Call Out To Creatives – help stop the spread of COVID-19. We are in the midst of an exceptional pandemic situation, with enormous effects on the economy. Unfortunately, Covid-19 has been only the first and perhaps the least important of three accidents that we must face: Covid-19, Economic crisis, Climate change.

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Top Tips For Liquidation Auctions

RetailMinded

The liquidation process in the business world today means a business is closing, so all its assets will be sold on auction to settle the debts that the company has. This is interesting because when liquidation auctions happen, the prices you can get from various items are highly discounted. Acquiring goods for a low price is an excellent investment opportunity, especially for anyone who knows how and where to sell them and make a good profit.

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Rammed-earth counter anchors Flamingo Estate pop-up in Los Angeles

Dezeen

Vibrant green walls surround a chunky rammed-earth counter in this garden-themed pop-up shop in LA that creatives Alex Reed and Dutra Brown have designed for lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate. Flamingo Estate 's Harvest Shop pop-up takes over a retail unit in Platform , a high-end shopping centre in LA's Culver City area. The shop offers an array of the brand's holistic products for the body and home, along with its range of pantry foods, which includes items such as extra-virgin olive oil, honey

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Sustainability at Retail

Sustainability impacts every nation, company, and person around the world. So much so that, in 2015, the United Nations (UN) issued a call for action by all countries to work toward sustainable development. In response to this and as part of a global Sustainability at Retail initiative, Shop! worked collaboratively with its global affiliates to address these critical issues in this white paper.

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Gina, London

Retail Store Windows

We do love a bit of Gina and while on our travels along Mount street we came across their latest scheme. There are some very nice collisions of materials here although their usually super sparkly product appears to be quite lost amongst it all which is a shame. We're actually very surprised that any brands at all have something new in their windows and while we have no idea if there is any meaning behind this one other than pure abstraction we are grateful for the visual of it all anyway.

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Important Logistical Practices For Pop-Up Store Success

Ship STC

Pop-up stores are becoming increasingly popular these days. As studies would suggest, a business becomes sustainable not only by having new customers. It is by building a strong and loyal customer base that will give you enough time to flourish and not just merely keep afloat. Pop-up stores are effective in boosting brick-and-mortar brands by immersing in the target market.

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Leading ‘Covid-19 safe’ return to the office: Our client faces change

Edge

Helping an existing client of ours execute their short term plan of ‘bouncing back to the office, safely and in line with government guidance,’ required careful planning. The physical space, behavioural and communications changes required to enable this, were filtered through our Nimble services to provide a compassionate and clear business message, with cost effective but robust operational protocols.

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#RetailProphetAMA: The Future of Beauty In A Post-Pandemic World

Retail Prophet

Historically, global recessions have led to what experts call the “lipstick effect” – when consumers continue purchasing small luxury items, even during an economic downturn. In a world where masks and social distancing are the new normal – will this still reign true in the COVID-19 pandemic? And what can beauty brands and retailers do to remain competitive?

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Is Your Brand AI-Ready? Find Out with Orium’s Maturity Model

Generative AI is reshaping retail, but achieving true AI success isn’t simple. Many brands face hurdles—underdeveloped data strategies, limited AI-ready infrastructure, or lack of seamless integration across systems. As you explore how AI can boost efficiency and transform customer experiences, understanding your business’s readiness is key. Orium's Data & AI Maturity Model offers a clear starting point.