While adapting to sustainability priorities wasn’t deemed a top challenge for respondents, most (61%) indicated that one of their top goals for the year was to integrate sustainability into more ...

The retail sector has been an evolving terrain for several years. 2025 was no exception, and 2026 is expected to bring ...

Although store design and experience teams expect to have higher budgets over the next year, they’re increasingly plagued by the same challenges — and some new ones to boot. How can store design teams ...

The evolution of retail design warrants a study of architectural practice in the digital realm. While physical commercial spaces have been the conventional center of shopping experiences, the emergent ...

To make the most of its stores and keep customers coming back to shop in person, baseball hat retailer Lids announced Wednesday that 20 locations will have a newly redesigned store concept this month ...

We often think of the sales floor as the only place where the brand lives. However, environmental psychology tells us that customers form their deepest opinions in the transition zones. These are the ...

When nearly anything can be bought with a few taps on a screen, brick-and-mortar stores have to work harder—and smarter—to earn a visit. Retail design, and the magic of merchandising, is something ...

In 2001, Apple issued its Retail Store Manifesto, proclaiming its ambition to use retail to convince people that “Macintosh offers a much simpler, richer, and more human-centered computing experience” ...