Retail
New Greggs Prototype Store
Just put up a post about the new Greggs Prototype store. It’s a move on for Greggs, fundamentally still the value proposition but in a more contemporary store. One of the key features is the lighting scheme which uses 100% LED lighting and is the first store in Europe to do so. This halves the energy consumption for the lighting. More info and pictures on our main website. Read More …
Tis the season to pop up your shop
Found on the Cool Hunting blog this pop up Holiday shop, ‘Stop Shop’ in New York by Areaware. Read the full story with more pictures here. Also worth a visit for pop up inspiration is Cool Hunting’s whole pop up retail category. Read More …
Square away
A new way of accepting payments for retailers of all sizes devised by a team including Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. An interesting use of the audio jack makes me wonder how soon before you can ‘bump’ your cash from phone to phone? More on the Square website and follow them on twitter @Square could be interesting. Read More …
Supermarket set up
Some stop motion action from Supermarket Sarah as she/they set up their Xmas pop up shop. More images below, including Mel Elliot’s brilliant colouring wall, Peter Ibreugger’s fab moustache mugs, the super cool WORK IT girls making their wall and the illustrator phoebe Eason painting her Bird wall. If I wasn’t a country bumpkin I’d be there filling my golden shopping basket Read more …
More Supermarket Sarah
A few more pictures from our new favourite shop, (did we mention about experience retailing?) this is her new wall guest curated by the super designer Fred Butler. Also a very fine Benny Hill style making of video. Supermarket SarahThis movie requires Adobe Flash for playback. Read More …
Retail Design Principles
Our good friend and ex-colleague Jason Milne, now of Contagious in bonnie Scotland has as good presentation to watch if you’re new (or old for that matter) to retail design. Lots of good illustrative images and usable text about the principles of Retail Design. I’ve added it to Issuu so you can flick through at your leisure. Click on the centre of the presentation to go full screen, press Read more …
Experience Retailing
I find myself in a Costa Coffee at a service station; very early for a meeting again! Here I am musing on the future of the High Street. I have predicted future trends in the past although I have often found clients bemused or just thinking I am talking rubbish. Eight years ago I told a client their web site had more potential for sales and profit than any single store; I also suggested they should Read more …
Happy Birthday Gap
Joining in the general retail birthday celebrations, Gap celebrate their 40th with a pop up store in Kingly Street (just off Carnaby Street) in London. Some nice art pieces and simple bright furniture complement the pared down space. The store is apparently only there for 19 days and 69 hours from Saturday 12th September. More detail on the Wallpaper article and a slideshow. Also on Retail Week. Read More …
Super Supermarket Sarah
A lovely website with a real sense of discovery and browseability. Hover over the products to see what’s still available and what’s sold. Click the browse button to see a different catalogue view. Take a look for yourself. Supermarket Sarah. Originally from the very excellent Design Milk Read More …
More Snog
I’ve writtten about Snog on here before and I must admit I keep coming back to it every time we look at a fascia on another job. So now here’s some more pics and even videos at Lighting which has an excellent write up about the lighting scheme. Also worth having a look at is their kiosk which opened in Westfield on Monday. Not many images online yet but no doubt they’ll start appearing Read more …
