When it comes to answering the "slings and arrows" of retail fixtures, much like Shakespeare, we're renowned for creativity.
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Business renovations can be an inconvenience to customers. The challenges are many, but the rewards of creating a better customer experience will be very fulfilling.
Read MoreOn the face of it, it’s an extraordinary idea. A store as showroom only, no cash registers in sight. Shoppers in these spaces aren’t shoppers at all. More like tire kickers. They look around, ask some questions, maybe try something out. But they leave empty handed. And that’s just the point. The concept of the “unstore” is that customer engagement …
Read MoreIts lack of success in this country notwithstanding, Target USA is continuing its full-speed trajectory toward an unprecedented future that stares e-commerce right in the headlights. The next generation of this company’s appearance on the American retail landscape launched last week with the opening of a grand and exceptional store in Richmond, TX, thirty-five miles from Houston. This 124,000-square-foot original …
Read MoreFirst, there was the self-bagging innovation. Then there were the self-serve checkouts (and their attendant hovering sales associates, ready to help with inevitable technical mishaps). Now with Walmart’s introduction of Scan & Go technology, shopping enters a freshly interactive age. Last week, Walmart Canada picked 22 stores from across the country as inaugural hosts for a new electronic payment-processing system …
Read MoreRead more about the fourteenth annual RealREIT conference and industry challenges including differences between the American and Canadian markets.
Read MoreThe Antalis Interior Design Award celebrates architects & interior designers, among others, in transforming spaces into areas for exemplary living.
Read MoreThe Retail Council of Canada (RCC) is making good on its pledge to facilitate Ontario-based retailers’ efforts to meet the province’s new accessibility laws. The RCC’s training program—a workshop and webinar series that’s part of the EnAbling Change project—offers practical assistance for retailers charged with adhering to an end-of-year complying deadline for a revised set of accessibility laws. The EnAbling …
Read MoreWith marijuana legalization slow-burning on the horizon, pot shops need clean and comfortable designs to break the mould.
Read MoreThe spotlight at this year’s World Interior of the Year contest—the theme for which is “performance”—is on colour, acoustics and volume, and the impact these elements can have on a professional interior space. The shortlist for this prestigious competition—featuring the efforts of practices in the States, Canada, Japan, China, Australia, Mexico, India and Europe—was announced a month ago, and it’s …
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