Running a retail store today is about more than just stocking shelves—it’s about creating an experience that attracts customers and encourages them to buy. With competition growing and consumer ...

Having to integrate new digital media and technology components into stores (44%). While adapting to sustainability priorities wasn’t deemed a top challenge for respondents, most (61%) indicated that ...

1. Fresh Produce at the Entrance: A Healthy First Impression You walk into a grocery store and the first thing that greets ...

A few months ago, I popped into a department store to grab a shirt for an event that night. Five minutes later, I’d looped past the same endcap twice and somehow ended up in housewares, miles from ...

When nearly anything can be bought with a few taps on a screen, brick-and-mortar stores have to work harder—and smarter—to earn a visit. Retail design, and the magic of merchandising, is something ...

Walking out of Target with purchases costing exactly one dollar more than you budgeted happens so consistently that it seems like a joke. But it’s actually deliberate store design orchestrated by ...

Through various means, brick-and-mortar retailers can now bring the precision of online recommendation engines to the physical store.