Estimates say 80 million U.S. households (60% of the population) have dogs, cats or other pets. And these households spent about $30 billion on their pets in 2015, according to Mintel research, with that number expected to rise to $38 billion by 2020.
Source: ShopperMarketing
Supermarket chain’s ‘relentless pursuit’ of customer service
includes the value it places on its own brands.It’s the reason Publix is our 2017 Retailer of the Year.
Source: StoreBrand
Given that the vast majority ‘ of Americans today use at least one social media platform, supermarkets, mass merchants, convenience stores and drugstores need to leverage these channels to effectively communicate with consumers.
Source: StoreBrand
The Zhongshuge brand was founded by a former secondary school principal who became involved in the book industry. Recognizing the decline in bookstore relevancy, design firm XL-Muse (Shanghai) was tasked with creating a familiar destination in
an entirely new form for the retailer’s latest outpost, which opened in April 2016.
Source: VMSD
While the future of innovation in retail is strong let’s not forget -just coming away from the 2016 holiday shopping season – that the scene for retail looks tough in some sectors. None are perhaps as bleak as the shopping mall and its loss of tenants in recent years.
Source: VMSD
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of Shinsegae’s Gangnam store in Seoul, South Korea, the upscale department store partnered with New York-based retail design firm Jeffrey Hutchison & Associates to redesign the store’s shoe salon.
Source: VMSD
Innovasport’s (Monterey, Mexico) 30,000-square-foot flagship in Mexico City brims with the best of the best in sports apparel and accessories:Adidas, Nike, Puma, Reebok.
Source: VMSD
The entrance to hart co. home + body’s more than 1000 square fool flagship inside melbourne, australia’s casey central shopping centre is the architectural version of a welcome mat: a locally sourced blackbutt timber-clad façade angled into the shape of a roof and an open storefront with an unenclosed display window.
Source: VMSD
Prior to the iPhone’s first release in 2007, most of us didn’t have the handheld personal computers more commonly known as smartphones. We didn’t have mobile apps, decent phone cameras for capturing photos and videos, or mobile shopping.
Source: ER Magazine
A point of difference in favor of traditional supermarkets, most agree, is customer service, which will be a focal point for many retailers.
Source: Progressive Grocer