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Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Shanghai, the first fully immersive coffee experience in Asia, celebrated its opening. When the doors open to the world’s second Starbucks Roastery, created three years after the inaugural Seattle Roastery, ...
While the annual unit sales growth of print books is expected to be slightly weaker this year than in the previous two years, global information company The NPD Group predicts a strong holiday season with five percent unit sales growth in ...
There is a great competitive force at work against high street retailers, one that continues to tempt customers into spending their hard-earned cash elsewhere. This is of course online shopping, with online sales rising 17 per cent following a ...
New research from British retailer Debenhams reveals the amount of preparation and planning shoppers put into making sure they get the item they want on Black Friday. The survey, which saw 2,000 shoppers across the UK questioned on their plans, ...
The European food retail industry is facing challenging times: Falling profits, disaffected customers, a looming health crisis, disengaged employees, ongoing economic concerns and ever increasing environmental threats are all changing the way people ...
Lord & Taylor unveiled its 80th annual world-famous holiday windows to New York. The Fifth Avenue windows have been transformed into a whimsical journey, as seen through the lens of enchanted snow globes, featuring over 60 variations throughout ...
Procrastination dwindles as more shoppers plan to start Thanksgiving weekend with their holiday shopping. The Holiday 2017 shopping season will be the first when more U.S. consumers will start shopping in the middle of the season (Thanksgiving ...
Starbucks announced the opening of the first Princi bakery and café location in the United States at its Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle. The Roastery opened in December 2014 as an homage to coffee, a completely immersive and sensorial ...
AWE (Augmented World Expo), the world’s largest and longest running conference and expo dedicated to augmented and virtual reality, unveiled the winners of the AWE Europe 2017 Auggie Awards. Presented in three general categories, the ...
Emotional storytelling in the store. Furniture shopping in a virtual showroom. Playfully connecting customer and product through an interactive shop-window. The winners of the Digital Retail Awards 2017 clearly demonstrate, how the digital future of ...
Even branches away from the classical retail trade can have a positive effect on customers with the right music concept in their sales points. This is the result of a qualitative and quantitative study by Mood Media, the internationally leading ...
On average, U.S. consumers anticipate doing nearly 40 percent of their 2017 holiday shopping online, up from one-third just two years ago. According to NPD’s 2017 Holiday Purchase Intentions Survey, consumers who will be holiday shopping ...
These days, point-of-sale terminals have to fulfill more and more functions – especially in the food retail industry. Retailers can also connect various peripherals that assume additional tasks. Yet this multitude of functions also entails ...
“Once upon a time, there was a jolly bunch of industrious advertising technicians who set out to find inspiration ... .” From 18 to 20 October, it’ll be viscom 2017 – not Hans Christian Andersen – which will send its ...
As part of a collaborative ‘trinity’ partnership, the Finnish airport operator Finavia Corporation, Italian luxury brand Bulgari and global travel retailer Dufry have worked together to develop the first Bulgari jewelry, watches and ...
Lidl’s Esmara by Heidi Klum range has lived up to expectations and paves the way for material growth through clothing for the discounters. Within the discount channel* clothing is the most under-penetrated sector, holding only a 0.6 percent ...
Year-long research shows that despite a seven per cent decline in frustration-levels over the last 12 months, many areas of omni-channel operation still fail to meet consumer expectations 72 percent of consumers say the experience of shopping in ...
Fashion retailer Nordstrom is pleased to announce Nordstrom Local – the company’s latest retail concept and neighborhood hub where customers can shop and access Nordstrom services in a convenient, central location. This brand new ...
Regardless of all the technical innovations, analog retail displays, i.e., physical display stands, continue to be an important sales promotion tool at the point of sale (POS). The benefit of displays is that they stand out from a variety of ...
Felix Horstmann, scientific assistant for the Chair of Marketing and Retail Management at the Philipps University of Marburg, focuses on the impact and effects of POS displays. In the interview, he explains how they should be positioned in the store. ...
The actual decision to purchase a product or brand is often made at the POS. It takes the right means of communication to persuade consumers at this juncture. Most notably, this includes eye-catching brand communication. That’s why the retail ...
Category management can be defined as the management of retail product categories that are compiled based on consumer needs. These needs include a great store layout, an easy way to find the desired products and meaningful product suggestions for ...
Pick&change makes it far easier, quicker and safer to hang displays above your goods. ...
Carmakers will become mobility platforms; food brands will conquer the smart kitchen with content and commerce; the travel industry will use virtual reality to generate emotional wanderlust. This opens up new perspectives for marketing ...
To forge ever closer relationships with its customers, Carrefour Belgium has expanded its convenience store network with the opening of two new Carrefour Express stores. They will allow the Group to provide a tailored offering combining shopping ...
The bakery trade has a long history. The baker profession dates back more than 1000 years. Yet despite its proud past, bakeries have a difficult time these days because they have to increasingly compete against rival types of businesses. Many gas ...
Big box stores and online marketplaces like Amazon force more and more small businesses in our neighborhoods to close their doors every day. The founders of LiveShopBuy have designed the world’s first location-based online marketplace ...
According to a new report from CBRE, urban-suburban submarkets are well positioned to capture strong demand from office users. Among the most common attributes of so-called “urban-suburban” submarkets are the presence of abundant retail, ...
inStream, the expert in receipt-based targeted marketing for value channel retailers, has completed its annual value channel shopper tracking study. The company interviewed shoppers nationwide at value channel retail locations as part of this study ...
As a store owner, your freedom in changing processes is greater than, say, a store manager in a large chain store. But these opportunities also bring a greater responsibility. If the store is doing well, it is likely a product of you having done a ...
Old Hickory Mall is giving local merchants the opportunity to expand their business without having to sign a long-term lease agreement. The new Pop Up Shop, located in the center of the mall next to Victoria’s Secret and American ...
Carrefour inaugurates an hypermarket store in São Paulo in the new Jardim Pamplona Shopping Center. The store has more than 5,600 square meters and an assortment of about 34,000 products, with special emphasis on own brand products and fresh ...
The Douglas perfumery chain makes positive experiences with its new customer loyalty card. Thomas Oberste-Schemmann, Director of Global CRM Analytics, talks to us about the benefits for customers and the conclusions the company can draw from an ...
75 percent of British consumers admit that the right reward or incentive could shift their final purchase decision to buy from a competing brand at the point of sale. The independent study of 1,000 British adults, commissioned by 360insights, also ...
The role description for a cashier has changed significantly in recent years. This blog entry will take a closer look at what has changed – and how this benefits your business. ...
Only eight shopping centers are currently being built in Germany. There are a number of reasons for this. Booming online business, extensive approval processes and the development of new building sites thwart development. To stay attractive, ...
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the launch of a first-of-its kind marketplace for publishers’ content studios, to showcase the wealth of ways these dynamic creative powerhouses apply their storytelling expertise to ...
German consumers would prefer to have whatever item it is they are buying in their hands immediately. Nearly three-quarters of all those surveyed (72 percent) prefer to shop in physical stores as opposed to online shopping because this way they can ...
Retailer Dutyfreeonboard.com has eliminated the hassle of passengers carrying their coveted discounted duty free purchases & dealing with airline restrictions by delivering straight to travelers' homes or anywhere in the US and paying the ...
Since the end of April, the s.Oliver Group has applied a digital signage concept in its store at the Ruhrpark Shopping Center in Bochum (Bochumer Ruhrparkzentrum) that emphasizes an innovative sales approach to better understand and continuously ...
Located in the heart of Porta Nuova, the city’s up-and-coming innovation district, the new Accenture Customer Innovation Network (ACIN) is part of Accenture’s global network including facilities in Bangalore, Chicago, Manila and ...
The job of a DJ is to cater to the respective occasion, setting and audience and choose the right music. In the best case scenario, guests have a wonderful time and stay until the end. Great in-store music should accomplish the same objective. ...
With the markets in North America and Europe together accounting for more than 65 percent of the global gift card market revenue share in 2015, an exact estimation of where these markets are headed in terms of performance is the ...
They provide attractive new opportunities for interaction with customers but also imply a holistic marketing concept as well as an integration of distribution channels. They increasingly take the place of the familiar billboards at train ...
Scent marketing in retail has gotten a bad reputation over the years. It has been accused of seducing and manipulating consumers. That’s also the reason why only very few retailers let the public in on their concepts. Having said that, many ...
CVS Pharmacy, the retail division of CVS Health, unveiled a new store design to enhance the retail customer experience with a new assortment of healthier food, health-focused products and expanded beauty selections paired with informational signage ...
On 11 April 2017 the new store for fashion & accessories in the high-end segment finally opened. It is centrally located in the McArthur Glen Designer Outlet in Parndorf. We take care of everything – in line with this mission statement ...
Von Maur opened a new store at The Corners of Brookfield in Brookfield, Wis.The 150,000-square-foot store is the company's first location in Wisconsin. Known for its selection of brand name and specialty apparel, shoes, ...
The first Rutter's location to sell wine is located at 2215 Old Trail Road in Goldsboro Newberry Township. It marks the first of seven Rutter's locations planning to sell wine with beer. This Rutter's is the first convenience store ...
When it comes to spring purchases, staples like flowy tops, spring break excursions and updates for the home are all must-haves. In order to not break the bank this season, RetailMeNot, a leading savings destination, has done the research and ...
