New innovative concepts

A video showing some innovative concepts from around the world.

Source: Tempadventure

Clever Ways to Bait People

This video explores 10 ways that retailers are innovating to get people into their stores. Scentvertising, stores made of cardboard, container stores, greenchitecture and employee free stores are just a couple of the ways that retailers are upping their game.

Source: The Trendhunter

Store of the Future

The Future Store is a subproject at Living Tomorrow, including partners like Delhaize, Microsoft, Wanzl, Wincor Nixdorf,... 

Source: Living Tomorrow

That´s how we will shop within a couple of years!

The RFID-Technology is there, what we still need is just a roll out world-wide! 

Source: IBM

The Future of Shopping by IBM

This short demonstration by IBM illustrates how the shopping experience is evolving to meet the demands of the smarter consumer 

Source: IBM

Shop Fitting Trends

An insightful article from Robert Stockdill, “Eight trends of shopfitting”, recently published in Inside Retailing, an Australian magazine, delivers the results of interviews with some shop fitters. It highlights 8 major trends:

1. More frequent and less costly shop upgrades;
2. Higher demand for building environments rather than building displays;
3. Closer attention to construction materials due to increasing use of technology;
4. Optimization of usable space;
5. “Cost-effective flooring”;
6. Diversification;
   
7. Increasing pressure “to use environmentally friendly materials and practices”;
8. A broader range of services.

Do you have to take up such challenges? If so, please do not hesitate to share your experience or comment on our blog.

Source: http://www.insideretailing.com.au

Peugeot City, a new car distribution concept

The French car group Peugeot is currently developing a new car distribution concept, Peugeot City, with the aim to appeal to an urban, busy and wealthy population by offering more customized services in a nearby format.

The first Peugeot City, designed by W&Cie opened in Paris (France), in the 9^th district in March 2010. The shop window with blue and grey colors is sober. Because of the minimal floor space, the boutique displays only a limited range of car models. However, it offers on 4 distinct spaces a maximum range of services in convenient opening hours such as car customization thanks to a tactile showroom, car ordering and delivery, financing services as well as information services and ”MU by Peugeot” renting mobility services.

Future city-center distribution formats are planned to open in Riyadh and Warsaw by the end of the year and then, in large French cities.

Peugeot City Saint-Denis Automobiles 4, rue de Chateaudun 75009 – Paris

Phone number + 33 142 850 404; opening hours & days: 10.00 – 21.00, from Monday to Saturday

Source: http://www.peugeot.com, http://www.concessions.peugeot.fr/paris9, http://www.wcie.fr

Shop of the Future: what do French consumers expect?

The recent Viavoice/Equipmag survey reveals that French consumers have different expectations of the shop of the future which vary by sex, age and social category:

• The 25-34 year-old French consumers and the senior executives expect an efficient organization which helps them save time and choose more quickly;
• The younger consumers are more sensitive to a friendly atmosphere and to a distinctive shop design;
• Men and, to a lesser extent, women are looking for a new and more convivial shop concept.

A human relationship is a key buying incentive for most consumers. However men are swayed by new products and famous brand names, whereas women are more sensitive to the display, the shop window and to a relaxing shopping experience.

The survey concludes that most French consumers have noticed a change in the atmosphere of shops over the last 10 years. Today they want to save time when shopping and they are increasingly looking for warm welcome, some good advice and more human relationships in the shop of the future.

Source : http://www.salon-equipmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Sondage_Viavoice_Equipmag_2010.pdf

Go to Equipmag 2010

Equipmag 2010, the leading French trade show for point-of-sales, retail and distribution, will take place in Paris for three days, from Tuesday 21^st to Thursday 23^rd of September.

It has structured itself around 3 major themes: 1.Restore the Shop’s enchantment, 2.Give customers’ independence, 3. Recognize customers, build their loyalty and ensure their safety.

With 12,000 expected visitors, the Paris shop fitting exhibition provides 415 exhibitors with the opportunity to present their new products, equipments, materials, technologies and innovative global solutions dedicated to sales outlets. Furthermore, Equipmag 2010 will enable them to make contacts with key retail decision-makers and do business.

The 40 planned conferences are focused on “the shop of the future” and will give the opportunity to learn the trends from experts from the sector. The objective is to bring new insights in the following issues: “What will shops be like in the future? What are the priorities to make them more attractive and more productive? What issues are currently important to your customers and prospects?”

In conclusion, Equimag 2010 should bring valuable insights in understanding "the final client" and the trends in consumer's behaviour. It should enable all professionals from the retail sector design and create more attractive and more efficient shop concepts "for a unique relation between the shop and its consumers."

Source : http://www.equipmag.com

Being Spaces

With face-to-face communication being rapidly replaced by email and chat, goods and services being purchased online, and big city apartments shrinking year by year, urban dwellers are trading their lonely, cramped living rooms for the real-life buzz of Being Spaces: commercial living-room-like settings, where catering and entertainment aren't just the main attraction, but are there to facilitate small office/living room activities like watching a movie, reading a book, meeting friends and colleagues, or doing your admin.

Starbucks is a great example on a global scale, while many companies in Japan, China and South-Korea offer deluxe gaming and manga-reading facilities, as well as semi-private DVD booths. Borders offers books, music and a cafe.

Being Spaces charge us for eating, drinking, playing, listening, surfing, working, or meeting, just as we would at home or in the office, while successfully reintegrating us into city life.