Retail ThinkTank: Store Design & Experience (2024)

How Store Design Teams are Thinking About Sustainability

Today’s store design teams are facing mounting pressures. More than three-quarters (76%) of respondents to Retail TouchPoints’ latest Store Design & Experience…

Solutions Designed for Retail Associates Need to Keep the Customer Experience in Mind

In an industry still struggling with a tight labor market, choosing which technology to arm store associates with becomes a critical decision….

Sephora’s ‘Biggest Yet’ SEPHORiA Fan Event to Kick Off in Atlanta

Sephora has announced plans for its annual SEPHORiA fan event and beauty festival, which will kick off in Atlanta on Sept. 27…

Ikea Exec: Stores’ Expanded Fulfillment Role Key to Maintaining Lower Prices

Ikea stores, long known as warehouse-sized selling spaces scented with the wafting aroma of Swedish meatballs, have been shrinking and changing functions…

Saks Fifth Avenue Expands Club Concept to More Luxury Resorts and Hotels

Saks Fifth Avenue is doubling down on its luxury personal shopping and styling service, The Fifth Avenue Club. One year after its…

Founder of New ‘Co-Retailing’ Space in NYC’s SoHo Shares His Vision for Community-Driven Retail

Yaron Cohen is a real estate investor and tech entrepreneur, but on the day we visited he was working the espresso machine…

How Under Armour Turned Fitting Rooms into CX and Data-Gathering Differentiators

Riddled with design flaws and service gaps, the fitting room has been a longtime necessary-but-evil curse plaguing the store. However, experts indicate…

Why HOKA Raced to Midtown for its First Global Flagship

Initially a cult classic among runners and exercise fiends, HOKA is now undeniably a mainstream phenomenon. In fact, HOKA parent company Deckers…

In Retail Real Estate, Smaller Spaces See Big Demand

“Less is more” appears to be the new mantra for retailers and QSRs when it comes to square footage for their stores…

How Yuppy Puppy is Creating a Luxe Space Pet Parents Love

For today’s pet owners, their dogs, cats and even iguanas aren’t just part of the household — they’re integral to the family….

Why Miniso is Making Hello Kitty, Barbie and Care Bears the Stars of its New Store

A Chinese retail brand investing heavily in U.S. expansion…sounds like we might be talking about Shein or Temu, but no. There’s another…

Luxury Lessons: What High-End Brands Can Teach Store Designers

Global design and consultancy organization Arcadis (formerly CallisonRTKL) recently worked with Saks to reinvent its West Coast flagship experience. but the company…

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