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Retailing Management 8e © The McGraw-Hill Companies, All rights reserved. 17 - 1
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McGraw-Hill/IrwinCopyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Store Layout, Design, and Visual MerchandisingCHAPTER 17
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Store Management
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Questions
• What are the critical issues retailers consider in designing a store?• What are the advantages and disadvantages of alternative store
layouts?• How is store floor space assigned to merchandise departments
and categories?• What are the consideration in where to display products in a
category?• What are the best techniques for merchandise presentation?• How can retailers create a more appealing shopping experience?• How exciting should a store environment be?
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Store Design Objectives
• Implement Retailer’s strategy• Build Loyalty• Increase Sales on Visits• Control Cost• Legal Considerations—Americans with Disabilities Act• Design Trade-Offs
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Store Design and Retail Strategy
The primary objective of store design is implementing the retailer’s strategy
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Meets needs of target marketBuilds a sustainable competitive advantageDisplays the store’s image
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McDonald’s remodeled its stores to better appeal to European customers
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In India, a retailer finds key to success is clutter
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Build Loyalty
• Store design provides utilitarian benefits when it enables customers to locate and purchase products in an efficient and timely manner with minimum hassle
• Store design provides hedonic benefits by offering customers an entertaining and enjoyable shopping experience.
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Increase Sales on Visits
• Store design has a substantial effect on which products customers buy, how long they stay in the store, and how much they spend during a visit.
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Control Cost
• Control the cost of implementing the store design and maintain the store’s appearance
• Store design influences • Shopping experience and thus sales• Labor costs• Inventory shrinkage
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Legal Considerations
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)• Protects people with disabilities from discrimination in
employment, transportation, public accommodations, telecommunications and activities of state and local government
• Affects store design as disabled people need “reasonable access” to merchandise and services built before 1993. After 1993, stores are expected to be fully accessible.
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• 32 inch wide pathways on the main aisle and to the bathroom, fitting rooms elevators and around most fixtures
• Lower most cash wraps and fixtures so they can be reached by a person in a wheelchair
• Make bathroom and fitting room fully accessible
Reasonable AccessWhat does that mean?
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Design Trade-Offs
Ease of locating merchandise for planned purchases
Exploration of store, impulse purchases
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Giving customers adequate space to shop
Productivity of using this scarce resource for merchandise
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• Layouts• Signage and Graphics• Feature Area
Store Design Elements
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Store Layouts
• To encourage customer exploration and help customers move through the stores• Use a layout that facilitates a specific traffic pattern• Provide interesting design elements
• Types of Store Layouts• Grid• Racetrack• Free Form
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• Easy to locate merchandise• Does not encourage customers
to explore store• Limited site lines to merchandise
• Allows more merchandise to be displayed
• Cost efficient• Used in grocery, discount,
and drug stores: Why?
Grid Layout
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Racetrack Layout (Loop)
• Loop with a major aisle that has access to departments• Draws customers around the store• Provide different viewing angles and encourage
exploration, impulse buying• Used in department stores
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JCPenney Racetrack Layout
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• Fixtures and aisles arranged asymmetrically
• Provides an intimate, relaxing environment that facilitates shopping and browsing
• Pleasant relaxing ambiance doesn’t come cheap – small store experience
• Inefficient use of space• More susceptible to shoplifting –
salespeople can not view adjacent spaces.• Used in specialty stores and upscale
department stores
Free-Form (Boutique) Layout
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Usage of Signage and Graphics
• Location – identifies the location of merchandise and guides customers• Category Signage – identifies types of products and located near the goods• Promotional Signage – relates to specific offers – sometimes in windows• Point of sale – near merchandise with prices and product information• Lifestyle images – creates moods that encourage customers to shop
H & M effectively uses graphic photo panels to add personality, beauty, and romance to its store’s image
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• Coordinate signage to store’s image
• Use appropriate type faces on signs
• Inform customers• Use them as props• Keep them fresh• Limit the text on signs• Use appropriate typefaces on
signs
Suggestions for Effectively Using Signage
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Digital Signage
Visual Content delivered digitally through a centrally managed and controlled network and displayed on a TV monitor or flat panel screen•Superior in attracting attention•Enhances store environment•Provides appealing atmosphere•Overcomes time-to-message hurdle•Messages can target demographics•Eliminates costs with printing, distribution and installing traditional signage
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• Areas within a store designed to get the customers’ attention
• Feature areas• Entrances• Freestanding displays• Cash wraps (POP counters, checkout
areas)• End caps• Promotional aisles• Walls• Windows• Fitting rooms
Feature Areas
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Space Management
• The space within stores and on the stores’ shelves are fixtures is a scare resource
• The allocation of store space to merchandise categories and brands
• The location of departments or merchandise categories in the store
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Space Planning
• Productivity of allocated space (sales per square foot, sales per linear foot)
• Merchandise inventory turnover
• Impact on store sales• Display needs for the
merchandise
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• Highly trafficked areas• Store entrances • Near checkout counter
• Highly visible areas• End aisle• Displays
Prime Locations for Merchandise
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Location of Merchandise Categories
• Impulse merchandise – near heavily trafficked areas• Demand/Destination merchandise – back left-hand
corner of the store• Special merchandise – lightly trafficked areas (glass
pieces, women’s lingerie)• Adjacencies – cluster complimentary merchandise next
to each other
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Location of Merchandise within a Category: The Use of Planograms
• Supermarkets and drug stores place private-label brands to the right of national brands – shoppers read from left to right (higher priced national brands first and see the lower-priced private-label item)
• Planogram: a diagram that shows how and where specific SKUs should be placed on retail selves or displays to increase customer purchases
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Learning customers’ movements and decision-making
• Videotaping Consumers• Learn customers’ movements, where they pause or move
quickly, or where there is congestion• Evaluate the layout, merchandise placement, promotion
• Virtual Store Software• Learn the best place
to merchandise and test how customers react to new products
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A. Straight rackB. Rounder (bulk
fixture, capacity fixture)
C. Four-way fixture (feature fixture)
D. Gondolas
Visual Merchandising: Fixtures
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Straight Rack
• Holds a lot of apparel• Hard to feature specific styles and
colors• Found often in discount and off-
price stores
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• Smaller than straight rack
• Holds a maximum amount of merchandise
• Easy to move around• Customers can’t get
frontal view of merchandise
Rounder
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• Holds large amount of merchandise
• Allows customers to view entire garment
• Hard to maintain because of styles and colors
• Fashion oriented apparel retailer
Four-Way
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Gondolas
• Versatile• Grocery and discount stores• Some department stores• Hard to view apparel as they
are folded
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• Idea-Oriented Presentation• Style/Item Presentation• Color Organization• Price Lining• Vertical Merchandising• Tonnage Merchandising
• large quantities of merchandise displayed together
• Frontal Presentation• display as much of the product as
possible to catch the customer’s eye
Merchandise Presentation Techniques
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• Present merchandise based on a specific idea or the image of the store
• Encourage multiple complementary purchases• Women’s fashion• Furniture combined in room
settings• Sony Style mini-living rooms
Idea-Orientation Presentation
Fifty percent of women get their ideas for clothes from store displays or window shopping
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Creating an Appealing Store Atmosphere
The design of an environment through visual communications, lighting, colors, music, and scent to
stimulate customers’ perceptual and emotional responses and ultimately to affect their purchase behavior
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Lighting
• Highlight merchandise• Structure space and capture a mood• Energy efficient lighting• Downplay features
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• Warm colors (red, gold, yellow) produce emotional, vibrant, hot, and active responses
• Cool colors (white, blue, green) have a peaceful, gentle, calming effect
• Culturally bounded• French-Canadians – respond
more to warm colors• Anglo-Canadians – respond more
to cool colors
Color
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Music
• Control the pace of store traffic, create an image, and attract or direct consumers’ attention
• A mix of classical or soothing music encourage shoppers • to slow down, relax, and take a good look at the
merchandise• thus to stay longer and purchase more
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Music
• J.C. Penney – different music at different times of the day• Jazzy music in the morning for older shoppers• Adult contemporary music in the afternoon for 35-40
year old shoppers• U.S. firm Muzak supplies 400,000 shops, restaurants,
and hotels with songs tailed to reflect their identity
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• Has a positive impact on impulse buying behavior and customer satisfaction
• Scents that are neutral produce better perceptions of the store than no scent
• Customers in scented stores think they spent less time in the store than subjects in unscented stores
Scent
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How Exciting Should a Store Be?
• Depends on the Customer’s Shopping Goals• Task-completion:
• a simple atmosphere with slow music, dimmer lighting, and blue/green colors
• Fun: • an exciting atmosphere with fast music, bright lighting, and
red/yellow colors
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Web Site Design
• Simplicity Matters• Getting Around – Easy Navigation• Let Them See It
• Example: Lands’ End My Virtual Model• Blend the Web Site with the Store• Prioritize
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Web Site Design
• Type of Layout• When shopping on the Web, customer are interested
in speed, convenience, ease of navigation, not necessarily fancy graphics
• Checkout• Make the process clear and appear simple• Enclose the checkout process• Make the process navigable without loss of information• Reinforce trust in the checkout process
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Keywords
• shrinkage An inventory reduction that is caused by shoplifting by employees or customers, by merchandise being misplaced or damaged, or by poor bookkeeping.
• sales per linear foot A measure of space productivity used when most merchandise is displayed on multiple shelves of long gondolas, such as in grocery stores.
• sales per square foot A measure of space productivity used by most retailers since rent and land purchases are assessed on a per-square-foot basis.
• impulse merchandise Products that are purchased by customers without prior plans. These products are almost always located near the front of the store, where they’re seen by everyone and may actually draw people into the store.
• demand/destination area Department or area in a store in which demand for the products or services offered is created before customers get to their destination.