Posts in Holiday Season Advice
Holiday Retail Display Trends 2024

Visual merchandising is a critical component of retail success, serving as a silent selling tool that significantly influences customer behaviour and sales outcomes. It combines aesthetics, branding, and customer experience to create an environment that not only attracts customers but also encourages purchases and fosters brand loyalty.

Here are five ways visual merchandising can enhance your retail strategy:

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What to Know About Sales Floor Allocation

Here’s how a well-thought-out space plan can guide customers seamlessly around your store, leading to increased sales and satisfaction!

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How to Prepare Your Store for Every Holiday Phase

Preparing your retail store for the holidays? We’ll walk you through our personal visual merchandising suggestions for getting your store ready for every holiday phase and beyond!

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October: The holiday-heavy month! How do we choose which to prioritize?

October means the exit of “Back to School” and the transition to Fall, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and early sightings of the Holiday season! But with so many themes in one month, does it make sense for retailers to represent every holiday in their stories? Here are 12 ways to find out which holidays you should prioritize in your business!

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How to Raise the Perceived Value of Your Products

Don't let budget constraints or time limitations deter you from showcasing your products with pride and integrity! In our blog post, we’ll share our top tips and tricks to help you increase the perceived value of your products.

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Here’s How Often You Should Change Up Your Retail Presentation

Avoid “Display Fatigue” and freshen up your retail presentations by following these general guidelines for your ongoing Visual Merchandising operations!

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Top 5 Visual Merchandising Misses and Wins

After working in the retail industry for 15+ years, I have personally run into my own unique set of opportunities and common misses in the Visual Merchandising world. Here are those opportunities and misses, and how I believe you should take advantage of them if I was in your shoes!

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Lifestyle vs. Commodity Visual Merchandising

In Visual Merchandising, there are two types of presentation styles that speak to the wants and needs of customers: Lifestyle and Commodity-Driven Merchandising. In this blog post, we’ll dive into details about the benefits of each presentation style so you can understand why they matter in your annual sales and marketing plan, and how they can improve your customers’ overall shopping experience.

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HOLIDAY 2022 SHOP SET-UP

… adding decorative props is one of the last phases of creating your holiday set-up. Consider it the cherry on top. To strategize your visual merchandising set-ups for Holiday 2022 in a way that will really make an impact on your holiday sales, let’s start from the very beginning, which is always the ORGANIZATION.

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Busiest Time Of The Year

As we (or you - as retail owners) are  deeply in the busiest time of year, it's important to take full advantage to benefit the rest of the year! Don't forget to stop, observe,  think, document and  learn all that you can!

Read the list below for what to capture during this time.

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Holiday Markets

As we have proudly been working on design projects for the  Toronto Christmas Market and the One of a Kind Showbooth design is on the very top of our minds during this time of year!

What is our thinking process when designing these spaces? It really depends on whether there is an existing design or we are starting from scratch! Here are the factors we consider:

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