Inside Retail
OCTOBER 6, 2024
Should young people be paid less than their older counterparts, even if they’re working the same job? Whether you think it’s fair or not, it’s been standard practice in many industries for a long time. The argument is that young people are not fully “work-ready” and require more intensive employer support to develop the right skills for their job. But change could be on the horizon.
Mindful Design
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Franchising is an exciting way to expand your dessert shop’s reach and grow your brand. However, before diving into the world of franchises, you need to assess whether your business is truly ready for this next step. Franchising comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities, so making sure you’re prepared is critical to […] The post Franchising 101 – Is Your Retail Business Ready to Expand?
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Design Week
OCTOBER 9, 2024
The co-founder of Siri believes delight is the key to building user experiences that become habits. And Adam Cheyer said designing for delight drives clear commercial impact. Cheyer was speaking as part of the Royal College of Art’s In Session event series.
Retail Times
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! New data from digital transformation consultancy Daemon reveals that over half (60%) of Brits still prefer a traditional checkout with a cashier when shopping in-store. This figure climbs to 71% among Baby Boomers, compared to just 59% of Millennials and 46% of GenZ.
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
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Hammerson is pleased to announce that YouTube sensation, The Sidemen, have selected Bullring & Grand Central for their first ever SDMN Clothing store in the Midlands and second-ever physical store. The new store underpins a wider strategy by Hammerson to diversify its occupier mix by introducing young and exciting concepts which complement the strength of the international brands on offer.
Design Boom
OCTOBER 11, 2024
the design introduces natural elements like water, greenery, and stone, focusing on creating a sensory, immersive experience. The post cylindrical columns and stone steps outline resoul rooftop concept store in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
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Design Week
OCTOBER 11, 2024
B&B Studio’s work for smoothie brand Mockingbird Raw Press took home the main prize at this week’s Design Effectiveness Awards. It won both a Gold and the Grand Prix, while other Golds went to White Bear with Tom Parker Creamery, and Else with Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 7, 2024
By Ghalia BOUSTANI. Retail Consultant | Published author | Visiting lecturer. Immersive luxury retailing, which utilises cutting-edge technology and innovative design to create engaging, multisensory environments for customers, is a transformative approach to high-end shopping experiences. This retail strategy aims to elevate the traditional luxury retail experience by offering more than just products.
Design Boom
OCTOBER 5, 2024
wooden beams and boards are arranged to evoke the feeling of walking through a canopy of trees, creating a camping atmosphere. The post kooo architects salvages wood from demolished rural buildings for camping store in china appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Cosette has been cleared from allegations it was selling fake luxury goods following a year-long investigation by NSW Fair Trading. The luxury bags and accessories retailer said the allegations stemmed from third-party authenticators who provided customers with misleading services. Cosette said it successfully defended the cases at the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), which claimed the authenticators have “no evidence of specific qualifications, skills, or knowledge” The
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Design Week
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Craig Oldham is a designer and founder of The Office of Craig Oldham, a Manchester-based studio that works on brands, books, objects, films and websites. Design 1. What would your monograph be called? I’d see it as a failure to have a monograph solely of my design work.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 10, 2024
White Stuff, the British fashion and lifestyle retailer, will be opening in London Gatwick’s North Terminal in late November. The opening will be the brand’s first airport store and follows a series of store openings and new concessions to bring the brand to more customers across the UK. The 1044sq.ft store has been specifically designed with travel in mind and features White Stuff’s new mobile payment system, so instead of a standard till customers can pay from anywhere in the shop.
Creative Displays Now
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Store aisle signs are an unsung hero in supermarkets and retail stores. They simplify navigation and improve the customer experience. Store aisle signs have changed significantly over the years. Each decade brings a new era of retail store layouts and design trends that call for improving upon the simple concept of signage. Today, store aisle signage is aesthetically appealing and focuses on creating an immersive shopping experience for customers, making them more engaged and excited about shopp
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Some of Europe’s largest fashion companies will start collecting discarded clothes from April as part of a voluntary pilot scheme to manage textile waste that anticipates EU regulations expected to come into force in 2026. Zara owner Inditex, Sweden’s H&M, France’s Decathlon, Ikea and UK-headquartered Primark are among 10 brands that will participate in a trial that will separate textiles and shoes from other waste collection so they can be reused or recycled, according to
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.
Design Week
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Sennep is a London-based digital design studio whose clients include Sky, Google Hong Kong, McKinsey and Unicef. It was founded in 2003 by Matt Rice and Hege Aaby, who tell us how side projects, an unexpected client win, and Elton John shaped their studio. 1.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Evolve Estates , part of commercial property and investment collective M Core, has signed two new tenants at the Penicuik Centre in Scotland. Popular sushi restaurant, Yokohama Sushi, has agreed a 10-year lease on a 824 sq ft unit at the scheme, joining other food and beverage tenants such as Greggs and Domino’s. Maj Gifts Ornaments will also be opening a location at the scheme later this year in a 1,940 sq ft unit on a one-year lease.
Retail Design Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a dynamic environment that offers private workpods.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Richemont has agreed to sell its Yoox Net-a-Porter (YNAP) business to MYT Netherlands Parent BV, parent of luxury e-commerce platform MyTheresa , in exchange for a stake in the new entity. As part of the deal, Richemont will sell YNAP with a cash position of €555 million (US$609 million) and no financial debt. In return, MyTheresa will issue shares to Richemont, representing 33 per cent of its fully diluted share capital.
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
Design Week
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy began his memo praising his colleagues’ “hard work and ingenuity.” But he wanted to make a couple of changes. One was to reorganise the company’s management structure. The other was to announce that from January 2, all employees were expected to return to the office five days a week.
Retail Focus
OCTOBER 10, 2024
There are many forms of education that you will experience throughout your lifetime. Some education types are more formal, such as school and college. In contrast, others will be more informal and lifelong, such as learning within your job or life skills. Some people will actively seek knowledge and new skills in an educational setting throughout their adult lives.
Retail Design Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2024
Mattamy Homes Sales and Decor Centre in Toronto merges office and sales spaces with Scandinavian and Japanese-inspired design by Figure3,
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Just one year ago, supermarket rivals Coles and Woolworths were fighting it out for the top spot as Australia’s most trusted brand. Fast forward to today, Woolworths is the fourth and Coles is the fifth most distrusted brand in the country. According to Roy Morgan’s latest quarterly rankings, Woolworths was the biggest loser, sliding 194 places to be the fifth most distrusted brand in the June quarter – almost mirroring the slide taken by rival Coles in the previous March quarter.
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.
Design Week
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Launching any media platform is hard. There are so many decisions to make, scenarios to model, and trade-offs to make peace with. A relaunch brings its own specific challenges. What to keep? What to change? What to get rid of? I see us as raucous cheerleaders for design and designers. We want to celebrate the […] Source What to read next: Design Week’s most popular long reads of 2023 | From the archives: Driving back to the future | What will retail and experience design look like in
Retail Times
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! unspun, a fashion-tech company, and DECATHLON Pulse, the investment arm and start-up studio of DECATHLON, a global multi-specialist sports brand, have formed a partnership to deploy unspun’s 3D weaving technology, Vega™, across Europe.
Retail Design Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2024
toi toi toi creative studio (T3) researches, designs, and delivers feel-good spaces. This ethos was applied to the 8,215 sq.m.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Japan’s Fast Retailing, owner of clothing brands Uniqlo and GU, booked its third consecutive year of record earnings on Thursday, boosted by widened profit margins in its international segments. Operating profit rose 31 per cent to US$3.35 billion in the 12 months through August from $2.55 billion a year earlier, the apparel maker said in a statement.
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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.
Design Week
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Now in its tenth year, the FutureBrand Index analyses the brand strengths of the world’s most valuable companies. This year’s report, released this week, looks not only at what’s happening now, but what’s changed – and what hasn’t – since the project started in 2014. Here are some insights that jumped out to us. 1.
Retail Times
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Retail Times publishes international & UK retail news covering products, data, tech, packaging, people, research, comment and more besides! McBride, Europe’s leading manufacturer of private label and contract-manufactured household and professional cleaning products, is wiping the slate clean with a significant reinvestment in its iconic oven cleaning brand, Oven Pride.
Retail Design Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Pinnacle Interiors unveiled the d3 Design Office in the Dubai Design District, showcasing innovative, sustainable design through LEED certification, biophilic.
Inside Retail
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Guzman Y Gomez says it has witnessed significant sales growth in the first first quarter amid improved performance across all markets – except in the US. The Mexican-themed fast food chain booked network sales of $278.8 million in the quarter ended September 30, up 20.7 per cent from a year ago. This comes as sales grew 21.1 per cent to $260.2 million in Australia and by 19.3 per cent to $13.6 million in Singapore.
Speaker: Shaunna Bruton, Danielle Wyllie, and Kailey Holmes
Say goodbye to one-size-fits-all retail, and say hello to experiences that keep your customers coming back for more! Customer loyalty isn’t just earned - it’s cultivated through meaningful engagement with the help of data. This webinar will take you behind the scenes of how top retailers turn customer data into personalized experiences that drive engagement and retention.
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