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Back-to-school shopping drives retail resurgence

The retail and fashion industry has received a welcome boost as the back-to-school season propelled a significant uptick in mall foot traffic across the United States, according to the latest Placer.ai Mall Index. This surge in consumer activity offers valuable insights for retailers and fashion brands as they navigate the evolving landscape of...

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How do the different types of physical retail each offer a unique customer experience?

The background article Exploring physical retail: From pop-ups to multibrand and flagships explores the diverse landscape of physical retail stores, categorising stores into multi-brand, monobrand, flagship, shop-in-shop, pop-up, concept, and department stores. The variety in physical retail enables each fashion brand to choose a store type that...

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Exploring physical retail: From pop-ups to multibrand and flagships

There are various types of physical stores, or so-called “brick and mortar” stores. For example, there are multibrand stores, monobrand stores, flagships, to name just a few. In this article, FashionUnited has created a list of all different types of physical stores, and what makes them special. You can choose to read the article from beginning...

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Retail still needs brick-and-mortar stores in an e-commerce world

The havoc that coronavirus is wreaking on the economy is being felt as companies lower their yearly projections and people file for unemployment claims in unprecedented numbers. The fashion industry is not immune to the effects of this, with companies furloughing employees left and right, CEO’s taking major pay cuts, and some stores permanently...

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How retailers can make the most of their physical stores

We’ve all seen it, department stores in refurbishment mode, with entire floors boarded up, sectioned off and hidden from view, while it undergoes a never-ending re-lift or re-format to help it boost sales. Often these refurbishments take many months or even years to complete, without the guarantee that once its new design is unveiled that said...

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Consumers are “increasingly frustrated” with physical stores

A third of shoppers would rather ‘wash the dishes’ than shop in-store, according to a new report by Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute, that surveyed consumers and retail executives from the UK, US, China, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden. The report, which spoke to 6,000 consumers and 500 retail executives,...