Smart fitting rooms: the perfect complement for the digital transformation of fashion retail
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However, physical spaces have to do much more, especially in the post-coronavirus era, if they do not want to be swallowed up by the ecommerce world.
In this context, there are those who seek to create a unique shopping experience with options such as, for example, smart fitting rooms. From CAAD we want to talk to you today about this innovative way to attract customers to physical establishments and boost sales and interaction with the consumer.The digital transformation of a company has become a constant and long-term process. As new technologies change and appear, there are always developments that help the retail sector to continue evolving and adapting to today's society and to the needs and demands of the consumer. We have seen it in recent months with the coronavirus, which is driving omnichannel strategies and new trends in window dressing and visual merchandising.
Sustainability in the retail sector: trend or reality?
Much more demanding, purchasing decisions, especially between millennials and Generation Z, no longer only depend on the amount and quality of the product or service, aspects related to sustainability and ethics are also valued.
To continue fulfilling consumer demands, all companies in the retail sector and the business world in general, are changing their philosophy and way of doing business to be more sustainable. Because for consumers it not only matters that brands do well, they want them to give the best of themselves and not only worry about economic aspects, but also monitor their social and environmental impact.To sum up, consumers want companies to be sustainable. In this article we want to reflect on the state of sustainability in the retail sector and whether it is a trend or a reality that is causing the sector to change in favor of responsible and sustainable consumption and to meet the demands of the youngest and most demanding public: Millennials and Gen Z.
The post-covid future in the retail sector is omnichannel
If the global pandemic caused by covid-19 has made something clear to us, it is that confinement has changed consumer behavior.
Given the impossibility of not leaving home but with the same needs (or even more, as a result of more free time to play sports, eat, cook ...) electronic commerce has become the perfect ally to make purchases with just one click, without setting foot outside the home. At the same time, the industry suffered from the slowdown in economic activity.The retail sector has been greatly affected by the coronavirus from different areas and perspectives: starting with the stoppage in industrial production and the drop in sales throughout the confinement, until the need to adapt factories and physical establishments implementing new measures of safety, hygiene, cleanliness and health. All of this, in turn, has led to the need for resilience to adapt to the new lifestyle.
Click & Collect: the trend that has come to stay in retail
Without going any further, it is estimated that the e-commerce sector, that is, the sale and purchase of products or supplies through the Internet, grew by 20% in 2019. And everything seems to indicate that, despite the coronavirus, these figures will continue to increase.
However, there is a business model that has been approaching giant steps for a long time and that combines the best of online and offline. Today, on the CAAD Retail Desing blog we want to talk about Click & Collect.
Innovations in the retail sector (II)
In the previous article we presented 6 innovations in the retail sector that have turned the way customers are introduced to the shopping experience, these are:
- Virtual shelves
- Metrics
- Testing-in-store
- Differentiated spaces
- Automatic check-out
- Loyalty program innovations