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Read MoreThe retail store fixtures you choose say a lot about what you're offering, impact the customer experience and influence your customers' perceptions.
Read MoreFrom strategic display placements to creating an inviting atmosphere, there are many ways to make your retail space more engaging for customers.
Read MoreIts lack of success in this country notwithstanding, Target USA is continuing its full-speed trajectory toward an unprecedented future that stares e-commerce right in the headlights. The next generation of this company’s appearance on the American retail landscape launched last week with the opening of a grand and exceptional store in Richmond, TX, thirty-five miles from Houston. This 124,000-square-foot original …
Read MoreFirst, there was the self-bagging innovation. Then there were the self-serve checkouts (and their attendant hovering sales associates, ready to help with inevitable technical mishaps). Now with Walmart’s introduction of Scan & Go technology, shopping enters a freshly interactive age. Last week, Walmart Canada picked 22 stores from across the country as inaugural hosts for a new electronic payment-processing system …
Read MoreThe Antalis Interior Design Award celebrates architects & interior designers, among others, in transforming spaces into areas for exemplary living.
Read MoreWith marijuana legalization slow-burning on the horizon, pot shops need clean and comfortable designs to break the mould.
Read MoreThe spotlight at this year’s World Interior of the Year contest—the theme for which is “performance”—is on colour, acoustics and volume, and the impact these elements can have on a professional interior space. The shortlist for this prestigious competition—featuring the efforts of practices in the States, Canada, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, India and Europe—was announced a month ago, and it’s …
Read MoreYears ago, predictions of a paperless society fluttered about the place like so much confetti. Today, the subject of predicted demise is cash—and retailers should take note. Last September, payment tech behemoth Moneris published a report that said cash will account for just 10 percent of all purchases in Canada by 2030, with the balance made up by credit, debit …
Read MoreIn 2010, an IKEA store in England made the curious choice to release 100 cats into its ultra-modern, slat-supported Scandinavian midst. Scant detail exists on the rationale behind the experiment. But the results—to which the YouTube videos of leaping, bounding, box-occupying felines can attest—are splendid. The relationship between cats and stores is a longstanding one. Everyone knows a card shop …
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