Dealing with ever escalating construction costs is an unavoidable reality for store development leaders. Indeed, it’s part of the job description itself.

With retail shifting gears into an age of rampant experimentation and evolution, store design and development has quite the task ahead if it’s to keep up with the rapid transformation to come.

First Nike LIVE store in Los Angeles

When speculating on the future of retail technology, two radically different images usually come into focus.

Imagine a shopping trip that involves a stroll beside pristine, meandering streams and futuristic buildings adorned with hanging sensory gardens. Where walkways are infused with artificial intelligence and delivery drones fly overhead, while...

When La Maison Simons unveiled its net-zero energy department store at Quebec’s Gallerie de la Capitale in March, the move marked some serious milestones for the 178-year old company, as well as the retail industry at large.

It’s been several years since the showroom format first appeared on the scene, yet it’s taken some time for retail to make sense of the confusing paradox they present — what good is a store if customers can’t walk out with a purchase in hand?

In the midst of last year’s flurry of store closures and bankruptcies, news outlets were quick to stir panic over an impending retail meltdown. While the dust is far from settled, we are beginning to witness the hopeful beginnings of a new era...

Throughout the course of a single afternoon in early December, a steady stream of twenty-somethings strolled up to a blue and red truck at a carpark in New York’s Lower East Side. Each one showed an attendant their smartphone before happily...

After throwing open its doors to hordes of curious enthusiasts in 2016, it didn’t take long for Samsung 837 in New York’s Meatpacking District to attract the accolades.