Trends
Not for sale
A new store in Paris, the Smart Store where everything is not for sale, but can be tried and tested. From LSN:Global Read More …
More ecommerce retail design
It wasn’t just Apple who launched their new season’s range yesterday. Over the past week or so a couple of big players in the fashion stakes have added ecommerce to their UK sites. Gap and Zara have very different approaches. The Gap model is pretty standard while Zara goes for the big centre stage image route as well as a lot more readable content and options for iPhone, iPad as well Read more …
TalkTalk new showroom
The New TalkTalk showroom in Soho is a stripped back large space, complete with Tuk Tuk van in the centre acting as a coffee station. The showroom gives the brand the ideal environment to host its own happenings, an important part of the new retail experience. Originally from LSN Global. Read More …
Found, antique, vintage etc.
There’s a growing trend towards individuality in larger brand retail taking after what’s been going in the leisure market for a few years. After all why design the same thing over and over again when you can do it differently every time. The modern globe trotting or even just city hopping person perhaps doesn’t want the same environment every time s/he visits the same brand. One way Read more …
The Future of Retail by PSFK
You can flick through the Future of Retail or get a download here. Well worth a look. 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 …
New Google Internet Stats
Launched today but hidden away Google Internet Stats is a neat little site to back up those all important presentations/proposals. Five main areas are covered (with room for expansion) and the opportunity to submit your own stats. Originally from Read Write Web via twitter Read More …
Asda – The Green Room
A week or so ago Asda introduced The Green Room, a place for ‘colleagues’ to share what’s happening around the business. Not much fanfare that I noticed externally at least that I spotted anyway. What’s interesting is the openness that surrounds the project as wel as how important it is that colleagues have a voice to interact with the business. One thing that seems to be missing Read more …
Up the Albion
Here’s a newish caff, the Albion. Part of Terence Conran’s Boundary project. Continuing the trend of taking back Britishness from the far right, tea is served with crocheted tea cosy, cutlery in syrup cans and water in a tin pitcher. Definitely one to add to our next Retail Safari. On a more social media type front they use Baker Tweet to let their locals know what’s coming out of Read more …
Twitter etc as video
If you don’t really get Twitter or crowdsourcing or facebook any of that social media malarky here’s a video that shows how it works … Originally from Seth Read More …