Category: Stores

April 5, 2023

Consumers are returning to the physical store for all the advantages it offers: the ability to touch, feel and experience the brand — and most importantly, be a part of the brand’s community or “tribe.” Brands should focus on creating […]

March 28, 2023

Dollar General is rapidly expanding its DG Media Network (DGMN) through partnerships with Meta and LiveRamp. The Meta partnership will enable DGMN’s brand partners to reach Dollar General’s more than 90 million unique customer profiles across the Meta ecosystem. LiveRamp […]

March 28, 2023

Walmart’s planned closure of its last two stores within Portland’s city limits later this month has drawn national coverage amid speculation that it may be due to rampant shoplifting. The discount giant closes a handful of underperforming stores across states […]

March 20, 2023

As part of IKEA’s technological expansion, Swedish retail giant has expanded its autonomous fleet to 100 drones across 16 locations in Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The Netherlands-based IKEA franchising partner Ingka cooperated with a Zurich-based […]

March 14, 2023

New university research finds retailers can use shoppers’ familiarity with a store’s layout to bring a more data-driven approach to in-store merchandising similar to online merchandising. The researchers developed a product allocation model that uses data mining techniques to extract […]

March 14, 2023

It’s hard to believe that in the same year cutting edge technologies like augmented reality and autonomous shopping have exploded in retail, shoplifting is still aching the minds of executives. Big box leaders like Target and Walmart have recently revealed […]

March 8, 2023

As savvy customers pull back the curtain on the carbon footprints of their go-to retailers, credibility in sustainable performance has emerged as a top requirement for brands competition. This search for sustainable practices scales up from a product or service’s […]

March 8, 2023

After three years of supply chain logistics and shipping delays, retailers have too much inventory sitting on shelves, and consumer demand continues to be in flux as inflation maintains a strong grip on budgets everywhere. This means the way consumers […]

March 7, 2023

Most retail trade media, including this site, have long praised technologies like artificial intelligence, micro fulfillment centers, personalization systems, data analytics and more. While these solutions are relatively easy for larger supermarket operators to afford and implement, they are out […]

February 28, 2023

Amazon may have a relatively small retail footprint of just 48 stores across the globe, however it has certainly made a splash with its bricks-and-mortar strategy. Despite launching in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Seattle, the online giant didn’t open […]

February 27, 2023

Bath & Body Works, among several chains reorienting their footprint away from malls, added 95 off-mall North American stores in 2022 and plans to open approximately 90 more in 2023. Forty-five of the stores Bath & Body Works closed in […]

February 14, 2023

California recently passed a law requiring employers with at least 15 workers to include pay ranges in job postings following calls for increased visibility to reduce gender and racial wage gaps. Employees can ask for the pay range for their […]

February 13, 2023

American Dream, the mega entertainment and retail complex in East Rutherford, NJ, announced plans to open The Address, billed as “the world’s first modest fashion department store” for Muslims, Orthodox Jews and others requiring or seeking cover-up styles. The 55,000-square-foot […]

February 13, 2023

Through a special arrangement, what follows is a summary of an article from WayfinD, a quarterly e-magazine filled with insights, trends and predictions from the retail and foodservice experts at WD Partners. Last year, a WD Partners’ study, “Retail Supernova,” […]

February 13, 2023

Inflation and economic uncertainty contributed to store count growth in retail’s discount sector. Those trends “will likely continue to expand in 2023, given [the] current forecast of further economic slowdown, including a possible recession,” the report, which was authored by […]

February 10, 2023

New Balance’s Newbury Street store is built to appeal to a younger audience. “This store represents a big step forward in the way we think about our retail environment, featuring a much tighter, more focused collection built specifically for the […]

January 30, 2023

The modern retail point-of-sale (POS) has come a long way from the cash register of decades past. “Old school” retail shop owners have come around to the benefits of a modern POS system with a product catalog, barcode capabilities and […]

January 27, 2023

The business models of many retail businesses have been unsustainable for years and all it took was the pandemic to make that undeniably clear. Pandemic and post-pandemic complications have caused many businesses to experience “inefficiencies, stress and fatigue,” making it […]

January 27, 2023

Despite proclamations that bricks-and-mortar retail is dead, several major ecommerce companies have recently been exploring the physical shopping environment. For digitally native brands, pop-up stores can offer a small, yet valuable window to make a memorable impression with consumers. By […]

January 25, 2023

Over the past three years, most of us have done a lot more shopping online, so it’s easy to forget that while ecommerce is still growing, most retail commerce still happens in stores. In Q3 2022, ecommerce accounted for less […]