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6 Trends Driving Store Design Innovation in 2024

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Retail TouchPoints asked experts across the store design, experience and technology realms to share the trends they believe will drive brick-and-mortar innovation. For example, they need to support omnichannel services like BOPIS, ship-from-store and seamless returns. operational efficiencies) has a negative effect on another (i.e.

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How a Reactive Omnichannel Strategy can Help you Capitalize on Reactive Buying Trends

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From strawberries and cream sales soaring during Wimbledon to the switch from the hottest June on record to a rainy July encouraging shoppers to quickly swap from sunglasses to umbrellas, there’s no denying that a range of external influences are driving unforeseen peaks of interest in different goods.

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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

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These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: The word omnichannel has been around for decades, but not until very recently has the industry realized the role of distributed order management in their aggregate financial equation.

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Walgreens Exec: Operational Excellence Makes 1-Hour Delivery Promise a Reality

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But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. The Vital Importance of Listening to Store Teams Mikos and other Walgreens executives were well aware that store pickup had to operate like clockwork, and it’s used a combination of training and technology to make that happen.

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Digital Transformation Propels Burton’s Omnichannel Growth Plans

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The company owns and operates 34 locations, both flagships or outlets, and the remainder are owned and operated by partners such as high-end resorts. Larocque has spent more than 20 years with Burton, becoming SVP Operations in 2010. The Burton name is on 66 stores in 10.

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Top 10 Trends Driving Retail Growth

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There are 10 Trends unfolding before us right now, very much worth watching. The Top 10 trends driving retail growth today are not predictions; they’re real and happening right now. The fact is, when it comes to what’s ahead for retail, no one really knows. Shoppers are returning to stores, again. This is growing, every day.

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Trending The Rules: Top Retail Trends Are Trending At An Unprecedented Rate

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Earlier this year, we released a report, titled “The Best Vision is Insight,” outlining our predictions for the top retail trends of 2020. Now, the newfound immediacy of the trends has, if anything, made them more insightful. Here’s a list of the original five trends with additional thoughts on their relevance today.