What is Your Pricing Strategy?

Which is better? A flat price such as $10 or $9.99? or $9.98? or…$9.97? In general, value items are better when ‘CHARM’ priced. This means having less digits on the left such as $9.99 rather than $10.00, For prestige items, the reverse is true. A designer shirt is better off being $500 than $499.99. This way, there is faster emotional connection … Read More

Could Ineffective Displays Be Partly Due to Poor Fixture Design?

Over my many years in retail, I realized that poor fixture design may result in ineffective displays that make it challenging for shop associates to work with. However, once stuck with this, what can we do? In this particular instance, these are some of the things we can do to make this display more appealing. 1. Keep the distance between … Read More

This Will Take Less Than A Minute :)

Creating effective displays, though not rocket science, need familiarity of elements and principles of design. However, at times, this is not enough. It also helps to take into account customer sight lines. Regardless of how attractive and how much you have successfully implemented design principles, your display is rendered ineffective IF NO ONE SEES IT. No one walks with their … Read More

Help Customers Understand Your New Product Offerings

Nowadays it is easy to find foreign retailers amongst our neighborhood shopping areas. However, some of the products they sell are not necessarily popular locally nor familiar to shoppers. For example, this featured retailer carried office and school supplies. If you are Asian, you would know what variety of notebook paper sizes these binders are for. However, if you have … Read More

REPETITION Wins the Day!

Recently, I have worked more with popular price point retailers whose product size are small. Just think dollar stores and similar retailers. How can they create an effective display that elevates perceived product values while at the same time, create impact? Thus was the case with this retailer right by downtown Vancouver. In their original display, they do show a … Read More

Low to High Front to Back

Are Shop Sightlines Compromised? A client I worked with asked why their signature fixtures, in this case, a chuck wagon is not often shopped despite it being located in the prime centre of the store. I often get similar questions from retailers and I can somewhat guess the reason for majority of the cases. Just like Horse Creek Candy’s issue with … Read More

Logos and Fonts

What do fonts and colours have to do with the message that retailers convey to their shoppers? Take a peek at the image shown. Who do you think is the target market? Gold lettering with a Middle Eastern flavour appeals to which segment of the market? What do you think are the price points? Now sure? Well so do many … Read More

Signs DO Sell!

See the signs in this selling space? Some say they are oversigned. But how many shoppers do you think were attracted to come in? I stood right outside for 5 minutes and counted 51! Why? Well, I saw the signs saying 50% off high street. This caught my attention- thinking they likely have good pricing. As I walked further in, the … Read More

Is Getting Lost a Good Thing?

https://youtu.be/yrr3NW3WF7w I often get asked, isn’t it good for shoppers to get lost in the selling space so they spend more time in it? Well, if your aim is to get them to spend more time, then yes! However, they are occupied with finding their way out rather than shopping. A well laid out shop makes it easy for shoppers … Read More