Tag: Store Design
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Taking a break
I’m taking a break from my blog. I hope to be back soon. Meanwhile you can follow me on social media @retailseen.
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Great customer experience = happy shoppers!
It’s no secret that customer experience is a huge element in any successful retail equation. Retailers have come to realize that it’s simply not enough to provide customers with great product; that in a crowded marketplace, to achieve a competitive edge, retailers need to connect with their customers by delivering a great customer experience. But…
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MAP Provincetown: Seasonal retail done right
As I touched on in my last blog, seasonal retail, especially when aimed at affluent urban vacationers, can and should provide a more sophisticated shopping experience than the run-of-the-mill. While on vacation, style-savvy LGBT urban dwellers as well as their straight counterparts, are perfectly primed for indulgent shopping and self-gifting. In the gay mecca of…
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Provincetown: More than clichéd seasonal retail
Retail at its best evolves and matures with customers; ebbing and flowing with the demographic of the locale and the changing needs and desires of customers. As in many other cities, towns and neighbourhoods, retail in the tiny resort town of Provincetown too has morphed and matured in response to the demographic, shedding predictable sea-side…
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No gold for Pan Am Games Superstore
While Toronto seems to have pulled off the Pan Am Games without any major glitches, the official retail efforts have been nothing but disappointing. And as I suspected, even the so-called Pan Am Games Superstore at Nathan Phillips Square failed to deliver anything more than a rudimentary retail experience. Theoretically well-positioned at Nathan Phillips Square,…
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Saje: Riding the latest wave of wellness retail
More than ever before consumers, aware and mindful of their health, are actively striving for a healthy lifestyle – and seeking retailers that can enable them. Driven by consumer demand, health and wellness retail has been one of the fastest growing retail sectors of the past few years. More than a fleeting trend, the sector…
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“The Organized Mind” and Simplicity in retail
We are all suffering from information overload. Yet, on a daily basis overcome with data, extraneous facts and information, we are expected to make numerous decisions from the merely insignificant to the most critical. In his New York Times bestseller, The Organized Mind, cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist, Daniel J. Levitin effectively drives home this very…
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YNOT Cycle: More than mass customization
Mass customization remains one of the prominent buzz words in the retail industry. For retailers, responding to customers’ wants with customized products at reasonable prices, has become paramount in engaging customers and building a loyal following. What local on-line and now bricks-and-mortar retailer, YNOT Cycle delivers, is more than mass customization. They deliver customized hand-crafted…
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New Anthropologie store: From neglected church to lifestyle temple
Just before Christmas, a new Anthropologie store opened – another outpost in Toronto, for the popular American retailer of clothing and housewares. The location: a 19th century church in the heart of Queen St. West that has been respectfully renovated and converted into a cathedral of fashion – or perhaps more accurately a lifestyle temple….
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Best products at IIDEX for retail applications
Typically exhibitors at the IIDEX Canada industry trade show, which took place last week, are geared towards commercial sectors other than retail; but that doesn’t mean that the show is short of interesting new products suited to retail applications. Here are 3 of the best from this year’s show: 1. Luminous Textile with Kvadrat…