Great Retailers Prepare Early for the Holiday Selling Season For retailers, the 4th quarter is the most important quarter of the year. Which often means, the most hectic time of the year. Retail business owners’ schedules are most likely stretched to the limit. If retailers start planning and preparing in September, it may create a […]
Did you know that retail sales during the holiday season rose 5.5% in 2017 to $691.9 billion? Exceeding the NRF 2017 forecast of a 3.6%-to-4% increase! The final total represents “the strongest gain since the Great Recession,” the NRF 2017 group stated, according to Market Watch. With statistics like this, are you ready to gear up for […]
What is Green Monday? If you haven’t heard of Green Monday, its okay. You may be thinking it sounds like yet another opportunistic shopping holiday and, as much as any other holiday dreamed up by retailers (Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Free Shipping Day, etc.), it is! In fact, the 2nd Monday in December is the 3rd […]
What is #GivingTuesday? #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration. This holiday is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Giving Tuesday kicks off the charitable season for most, when many focus on their holiday and end-of-year giving. […]
One of the latest trends to hit the scene is Pipeline industrial fixtures. Industrial fixtures evoke an urban, or city, feel. They consist of raw materials – the unfinished look of metal, concrete, exposed brick, and wood. With its monochromatic color scheme, this style aims to preserve historic elements of buildings. Industrial fixtures bring the […]
As mentioned previously in our Injection Molded vs. Fabricated Acrylic piece, the acrylic fabrication process is a very clean, detail-oriented way of manufacturing acrylic. There are virtually no defects due to manufacturing. Fabricating acrylic by hand will eliminate the relief marks and/or blue haze you would get with injection molded pieces. There are four main […]
If you own a retail store, it’s no secret that back-to-school (B2S) season starts that upward financial climb towards fourth quarter. Fourth quarter, the crazy (yet bittersweet) holiday season. Did you know that B2S shopping is the second largest (behind winter holidays) shopping season of the year? Your customers are back from summer vacations and […]
Updated: April 28, 2018 National Small Business week April 28th through May 5th allows us to recognize and highlight the contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Each day small business owners are working to grow their small businesses, create jobs, and drive innovation. Here at InStore Design Display we want to celebrate small […]
Showrooming, the popular practice of ‘shopping’ products in a store only to go home and order them at the cheapest price online, is losing popularity. Business and retail industry sources say that shoppers who”showroomed” spent a significantly smaller amount of money in 2013. Now, a new term is on industry lips: Reverse Showrooming. But even this concept is not […]
Shopping is big business. And the way merchandise is displayed has the power to increase sales, tenfold. That’s why we work hard at IDD to provide so many different display options. Which brings us to a trending topic among merchandisers: the psychology of discount shopping. News on the street (in our industry anyway) is that the […]
