Beyond just creating a good-looking store with aesthetically pleasing displays, retail store design is a well-thought-out strategy to set up a store in a certain way to optimize space and sales. The ...

Grocery stores are carefully designed to guide your path, expose you to more products, and subtly encourage bigger shopping carts.

As part of its technology-driven retail strategy, Walmart has unveiled a new digitally-enabled look and feel to its store design and layout rolling out to hundreds of stores this year to create an ...

You walk in for milk and bread, and somehow leave with a full cart. It happens to nearly everyone, and it is rarely ...

Shopping should be a fun and invigorating experience, but for many, it’s becoming a source of frustration. A recent trend in store layout design is leaving shoppers feeling more confused and less ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Shelley E. Kohan covers the retail industry and is based in New York. This article is more than 3 years old. Ulta Beauty's new ...

A store’s layout and design often serve as a customer’s first impression of a business. Of course, it should be effective in persuading someone to make a purchase. However, it should also communicate ...

With all the focus on e-commerce and websites, it’s easy to forget that online sales still only accounted for about 10 percent of all retail transactions last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau ...

When you're designing a store, the layout of your displays matters just as much as what's on them. If you're selling handbags, for example, it doesn't matter how fashionable or high-quality they are - ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week granted Apple a trademark for the unique design of the company's brick-and-mortar retail outlets, a process nearly two years in the making. First applied ...

"From this the Court concludes that the representation of the layout of a retail store, by a design alone, without indicating the size or the proportions, may be registered as a trade mark for ...