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Why third spaces are the retail trend to tap into in 2025

Inside Retail

If 2024 was all about pop-ups , in 2025, it would appear that retailers are leaning into third spaces. Whether through design, curated menus, or experiences, these spaces help communicate a brands narrative while also addressing digital fatigue and noise from the cluttered platform online. The idea of a third space in retail isnt new.

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How retailers can build consumer trust by engaging the ‘Five Frames of Mind’

Inside Retail

Todays stores have long become places far beyond buying goods, they have become critical spaces for emotional connection, sensory engagement, and brand storytelling. Our emotional mind becomes engaged when a place sparks these emotions through a memory or mood, perhaps a sense of nostalgia from a familiar smell, sound or images.

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A science-based framework for crafting remarkable physical retail spaces

Inside Retail

To craft remarkable physical retail spaces, forward-thinking retailers can focus on what we call the SUPER approach: Surprising, Unique, Personalised, Engaging, and Repeatable. Surprising experiences elicit joy and excitement, emotions that make customers feel more positive and engaged. This plays a role in memory recall.

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How G-Star is recalibrating its local strategy for a post-Covid retail landscape

Inside Retail

By 2023, G-Star had already begun re-engaging with the market, though it wasnt until this year that the communications campaign officially went live. While it continues to honour its core customer base through high-end retail partners like David Jones, it is also diving into youth-driven spaces such as Culture Kings and Glue Store.

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A Blueprint for B2B Commerce

In the B2B space, digital expectations are higher than ever. Learn to create engaging and well-crafted consumer shopping experiences with insights and tools from Orium’s report, A Blueprint to B2B Commerce. Take inspiration from B2C commerce strategies and adapt them for B2B digital interactions.

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MAPIC 2024: Highlights of the 2024 Edition

Retail Focus

With an expanded area and a new space dedicated to brand licensing (IP), LeisurUp, the zone dedicated to leisure and immersive experiences, brought together leading players such as Bandai Namco, Citywave, Cits Immersives, Hasbro, Dama Dreams, Dedem, Hupalupa, Smiley, QubicaAMF, Pausa, TF1 Licensing, Universal, Walltopia, and Zero Latency VR.

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Space NK Unveils Largest Store in Portfolio with Upgraded Westfield London Location

Retail Focus

Space NK has revealed a newly expanded store, which is the largest in the company’s portfolio, and four times the size of its original location at Westfield London in White City. The Space NK Westfield London store will have two skincare treatment rooms, providing facials by expert therapists.

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