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Every season, RetailNet Group’s analyst team visits a variety of stores around the globe to see how retailers are laying out their merchandise. For Halloween, the creative displays change slightly, but the merchandising strategies remain consistent. Rapid product turnover, for this season especially, means that permanent fixtures do not make sense. Retailers purchase, and brands [...]
Target has announced plans to open eight more retail clinics in its existing stores by July 29th, 2012. Four stores in northern Virginia and four stores in North Carolina will become the first to offer the clinic services in those states. “Stumble on a patch of poison ivy? Concerned about sunburn? Battling an allergy attack? [...]
A question we at RetailNet Group often get asked is, “What store formats are opening the most stores?” In order to answer this question, we decided to provide a series of articles looking at high growth formats across the globe. We will do this in each of our major geographies: North America, Latin America, Europe, [...]
No one should disagree that the retail landscape is changing. Those that do, need to get some sun out from under their rock. Just a little more than a decade ago, store-based retailers (SBRs) had the growth and leverage to effectively control the industry. Today shoppers have taken control, and growing competition from e-commerce players [...]
One more major chain retailer has provided us with yet another example of the big box’s shift towards a smaller store footprint. Last week Kohl’s announced the opening of 7 new smaller format stores across the US. The new 64,000 square foot stores will be two-thirds the size of the traditional Kohl’s store (90,000 square [...]
Localization is one of the few extremely effective ways for store-based retailers to compete with the rapidly growing e-commerce giants. Retailers like Walgreens, ShopKo, Trader Joes, and Walmart have incorporated a range of very interesting localization strategies into their stores in an attempt to: (1) convey a commitment to local communities, (2) to appear less [...]
There are more that 23 million American people living in food deserts. That’s 23 million people living in rural and urban towns without access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Efforts to bring ‘fresh’ to people living in these areas were amplified by Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood obesity. Big retailers made commitments to [...]
What is the appropriate balance between automation and human interaction in retail stores? Shoppers want convenience, but are they willing to sacrifice the help of a friendly store assistant to get there? Retailer merchandising and operations strategists must consider kiosk implementation as a potential solution. Granted this route could require somewhat of an ethical [...]
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