With rents ballooning and demand for space skyrocketing, you need to be creative when maximizing the efficiency of your retail floor space.
Read MoreFrom strategic display placements to creating an inviting atmosphere, there are many ways to make your retail space more engaging for customers.
Read MoreBusiness renovations can be an inconvenience to customers. The challenges are many, but the rewards of creating a better customer experience will be very fulfilling.
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 MoreRead more about the fourteenth annual RealREIT conference and industry challenges including differences between the American and Canadian markets.
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 MoreThat recreational marijuana is poised for legalization in this country (starting July 1, 2018) has been all the buzz for the past long while in Canada, as the government scrambles to clarify the particulars. Lots of folks are keen to capitalize on this flaming development, and the uncharted possibilities beckon with tremendous promise. The only question is: how and where? …
Read MoreThe e-commerce scene—long percolating in this country but never boiling—has burst into life in recent months. So confirms eMarketer, in a new forecast that predicts that digital purchases could account for 10 percent of all retail sales in Canada in the next four years. Just-tallied numbers indicate that e-commerce purchases (excluding travel and event tickets) in this country accounted for …
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