New retail and malls: are they compatible?
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The pandemic confined us all at home and left shopping centers and stores more empty than ever. However, the merger of online and offline has been going on for a long time but it is accelerating more than ever to face two imperatives: improving the customer's shopping experience and rekindling the flame in malls.
Design trends in perfumery and cosmetics retail
From the consumer's point of view, all stores may be the same: shop window, cashier area, fitting rooms, shelves, mannequins ... Nothing could be further from the truth.
In a store, absolutely everything responds to a clear objective, which is usually to create an environment conducive to sales. In this context, within the framework of the launch of our solutions for perfumery retail, we want to reflect on the key aspects in interior design projects for perfumeries.
Retail design in furniture, household and decoration stores
In a changing world where ecommerce is becoming more powerful and more prominent, in-store experiences must be unforgettable. For this, the use of technology or good lighting is not enough. Interior design and decoration also help make the physical experience in commercial spaces unique.
New Retail Design: 7 keys to implement it successfully
Technology evolves at the speed of light, forcing all sectors to be in a constant process of change, development and innovation.
When it seemed that omnichannel strategies were leading retail to bring together the best of the online world and the physical store, a new concept arrived from China that plans a new scenario: the new retail design.
Retail Intelligence: what is it, advantages, examples and future
The design of commercial spaces is not a trivial matter. The personality of the brand, the shop windows, the lighting, the product, the customer service… everything counts to create a memorable shopping experience.
However, once we have managed to get the customer to enter our establishment and buy, we must continue working to find out what they liked the most and what they did not like. Only then can we continue to improve and increase sales. For this, the best tool is retail intelligence.John Lennon said that life is what happens while you make plans. Well, while most companies continued with their business plans in retail, we have had to live a pandemic caused by covid-19 that has changed EVERYTHING.
Post-covid retail: innovation and decorative solutions for stores
Now, however, we think about it a little more before going to a shopping center or, directly, we decide to buy online because it makes us feel more secure.
These changes in the way of acting and consumer decision-making, together with the need to implement new measures so that establishments are safe and healthy environments, show us a post-covid retail era in which we must bet on innovation and incorporate new decorative solutions for shops.With the reduction of coronavirus infections, local businesses and establishments reopened their doors. However, the welcome in the retail sector has been preceded by a series of internal actions. Companies have had to adapt their establishments to the new security protocols. All this with the aim of guaranteeing that the stores are a totally safe and healthy environment not only for customers, but also for employees. After all, if a worker tests positive for coronavirus, the establishment has to close to maintain a quarantine of at least 15 days. The new normal in stores involves incorporating measures of social distancing and hygiene to act with complete peace of mind and without risks. In this sense, most of the establishments have been f
Smart fitting rooms: the perfect complement for the digital transformation of fashion retail
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.