All Store design articles – Page 13
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Analysis & FeaturesQuintessential Brands Spirits Centre: a new hub of drinks innovation
Quintessential Brands’s ‘first of its kind’ Spirits Centre allows supermarkets to develop a new drinks product in a single day, covering everything from branding to liquid development
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Comment & OpinionHow ‘just walk out’ stores can use technology and people to boost engagement
For a ‘nation of shopkeepers’, some physical retailers are at risk of putting considerable distance between themselves and their customers, says Tom Hostler of Publicis Poke
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NewsM&S takes AR wayfinding app trial public
The supermarket started staff trials of the app, called List&Go, before Christmas as part of its 10x digital stores programme
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Analysis & FeaturesAldi’s new ‘just walk out’ Greenwich store: what’s it like inside?
It’s the first UK discounter store letting customers simply pick up their shopping and leave, before billing them in an app. So what’s it like?
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NewsAldi launches ‘just walk out’ checkout-free store in Greenwich
To use the store, customers must download the Aldi Shop & Go app
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NewsCentral England Co-op invested over £8m into estate during 2021
Society opened three new food stores, a new coffee shop at its flagship Boley Park site in Lichfield, and a new florist under its funeralcare business
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NewsSimplyFresh targets independents with ‘LittleFresh’ relaunch
The first site opened in Moorgate last month, with the other two set to open in Januar
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Analysis & FeaturesCrimple, Harrogate: how a garden centre blossomed into a food hall
A £4m investment has transformed the Crimple garden centre into a foodie destination
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NewsAsda trials GoodMaps wayfinding app at Stevenage store
The app can pinpoint a user’s location to within a metre and communicates directions to an object or area via audio, enlarged visual, and touch commands
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NewsM&S trialling augmented reality wayfinding app at Westfield Food Hall
If staff trials are successful, the app will be made available for public use in January
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NewsButchers IJ McIntosh unveils eco-friendly Aberdeenshire store
An eco-friendly shop has been opened by family-run IJ McIntosh, in a former car showroom in Aberdeenshire.
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Comment & OpinionAmazon may be overly optimistic on stores rollout, but not its end goal
The online giant’s target of 100 store openings per year may seem overly ambitious – but it doesn’t need to rush
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NewsSainsbury’s to launch checkout-free ‘shop and walk out’ store in London
Customers will scan in at entry gates using a QR code displayed in their SmartShop app
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NewsAmazon confirms two new Fresh locations
The first of the stores opened in Bluewater Shopping Centre, Kent, in early October
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NewsAF Blakemore uses New Era programme to drive rollout of Spar Market fascia
The store format has an ‘elevated’ fresh food offer and a strong focus on local suppliers
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Comment & OpinionHow Asda is tackling the challenges of refill aisles in stores
The consumer interest has been encouraging but there is much still to learn, says Susan Thomas, senior director of commercial sustainability at Asda
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NewsUnilever launches two-model refill trial at Co-op store
Several of Unilever’s best-known brands are involved in the trial, including Persil, Simple, Radox and Alberto Balsam.
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Analysis & FeaturesInside Weezy Paddington: the bright, colourful dark store for foodies
Weezy’s dark store is not what you might expect. A bright, colourful space filled with local meat, bread and fruit, it wants to give ‘health-conscious foodies’ what the supermarkets can’t
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NewsCosta Coffee debuts new mobile van service in Oxford
The vans will feature the same equipment, processors, grinders and machinery as an ordinary Costa Coffee store
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NewsAmazon’s seventh Just Walk Out store to open over the road from Tesco’s GetGo
Tesco launched its own version of Amazon’s Just Walk Out shopping experience last month