1. Wall System. Select the correct wall system for your budget and the correct amount being used. One way to do that on a budget is to use slatwall panels on your walls. Our staff sell hundreds of slatwall panels each year and views this wall display system as one of the biggest bang for […]
Category Archives: Store Design
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Store Layouts: Creating Paths for Your Customers
Listen to retail design expert, Bryan Stirle, discuss the importance of controlling customer traffic flow by intelligently setting up your store’s floor layout. How do you get a customer to the product they’re looking for? How do you show them products they didn’t even know they needed? How do you simplify checkout? Bryan Stirle […]
Infograph: 4 Tips to Help Create Customer Traffic Flow
Items Worth the Splurge: Counters & Wall Fixtures
Retail design expert, Bryan Stirle, explains why retail counters and the proper use of wall fixtures are fundamental to creating relationships with your customers based on store-recognition and visual story-telling. Shopping counters create presence, a space to nurture conversation, and exposure to your store name-brand and logo, ultimately encouraging the formation of a relationship […]
Lighting: Ambiance, Moods, Experience, and Product Display
Retail design expert, Bryan Stirle, uses Bloomingdale’s to explain the effects of lighting types on customer moods, customer experiences with your products and retail space, product display under different color indexes, and negotiations with ceiling types for small-medium sized businesses.
Lighting the Path
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From Big Box Retail Design to Independent Stores
What is a Big Box store? What are “Big Box” commercial design strategies? In our new podcast series, “From Big Box to Independent Business”, Bryan Stirle analyses the commercial design strategies used by Big Box retailers and adjusts them for use in small to medium sized businesses and commercial spaces.
How to Maximize Space Using Color
From Big Box Retailers to Independent Businesses: How to Maximize Space Using Color Commercial design expert, Bryan Stirle, analyses retail design strategies used by Big Box retailers and adapts their principles for use in independent businesses. In this podcast, Bryan takes apart how space constraints, such as a low or high ceiling, can be […]
How Floors Affect Product Sales
Retail design expert, Bryan Stirle, explains the relationship between floors and products. In sum: 1. Customer interactions with your products should be considered when choosing your flooring materials. For example, customers buying slippers may want an area with soft carpet, sport shoe customers may enjoy trying them on a section with astroturf, etc. […]
How to Tie the Five Senses to Promotions and Increase Sales
Retail design expert, Bryan Stirle, shares ideas on how to engage customers’ five senses to increase sales. Tips include considering the qualities of your product (like the smell of a perfume or the color of a shirt) when designing a promotion. This podcast concludes with an analysis of the ways in which Big Box […]
Textured Slatwall – The New Look!
The demand for exciting ways to display products is ever evolving. The most common and universal way to merchandise is off of a slatwall medium, but it leaves little to the imagination. Traditional LPL slat wall panels tend to turn into a bland wallpaper background, contributing nothing to the store environment. Textured slat wall changes […]