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Popular This Week1. 53 Unique Store Displays - From Bolshevik Retail Windows to Piled Tennis Ball Storefronts (CLUSTER)  In our world of passive browsing, tight wallets, and short attention spans, sometimes a cool window or store display can make the difference between a shopper continuing on their way and actually entering…2. 25 Walmart Finds - From Insightful Subculture Studies to Cheap High Fashion (CLUSTER)  If there has ever been a revolutionary superstore chain, these Walmart finds will surely solidify Walmart's claim to fame. With America’s Black Friday just around the corner, and Christmas sales right…3. 70 Credit Crunch Retail Promotions - Clever Store Promotions for Black Friday 2009 (CLUSTER)  In 2009, Black Friday retailers will attempt to woo budget-crunched holiday shoppers into brick-and-mortar stores like never before. We’ve seen a number of innovative approaches in advance of Black Friday…4. 32 Exclusive Fashion Boutiques - From Basement Boutiques to Eclectic Kick Shops (CLUSTER)  Considering how fast fads become massed produced, it’s hard to stay original nowadays, yet there are exclusive fashion boutiques that encourage individual style and limited number of pieces.
This cluster…5. Presidential Retail Windows - The Bloomingdale's Holiday Windows Include President Obama (GALLERY)  The holidays are a time for cheer—that, and special seasonal window displays. Displays, for instance, that include the President. One of the Bloomingdale’s holiday windows feature President Barrack Obama…6. 50 Online Shopping Innovations - From Fitting Room Simulators to Invite-Only Shopping Sites (CLUSTER)  Black Friday is the day for shopping bargains, there’s no doubt about it. But is waiting in hours-long lines, shoving your way to get to the 50%-off shoes, and having things from your shopping cart snatched…7. Fitting Room Simulators - Try on Clothes With Tobi.com's Augmented Reality Dressing Room (VIDEO)  Many companies have been trying—unsuccessfully—to create effective virtual dressing rooms for customers via their online stores. Now Tobi.com has launched their Augmented Reality Dressing Room, the first…8. Gift-Wrapped Heroes - The Holiday Sub Sandwich from Erbert & Gerbert is Perfect for Everyone (GALLERY)  Need a gift that won’t break the bank for that always difficult-to-buy-for someone in your life? Try the Erbert & Gerbert’s Holiday Sub and sandwich that come gift wrapped -- just don’t leave it under…9. 11 Gift Cards and Certificates - From Controversial Gift Certificates to $50,000 Gift Cards (CLUSTER)  Although I’m a big believer in opening wrapped gifts from under the Christmas tree, sometimes you have to concede and purchase gift cards and certificates. I mean, there are so many choices out there that… |
Popular This Month1. 32 Riveting Retail Spaces - Businesses With Unique Storefronts and Innovative Interiors (CLUSTER)  Now more than ever, a retail business can’t rely solely on its brand identify to sell. No, it takes much more inventiveness—a memorable experience, if you will—to engage customers, which is why many retailers…2. 53 Unique Store Displays - From Bolshevik Retail Windows to Piled Tennis Ball Storefronts (CLUSTER) In our world of passive browsing, tight wallets, and short attention spans, sometimes a cool window or store display can make the difference between a shopper continuing on their way and actually entering…3. 25 Walmart Finds - From Insightful Subculture Studies to Cheap High Fashion (CLUSTER) If there has ever been a revolutionary superstore chain, these Walmart finds will surely solidify Walmart's claim to fame. With America’s Black Friday just around the corner, and Christmas sales right…4. 70 Credit Crunch Retail Promotions - Clever Store Promotions for Black Friday 2009 (CLUSTER) In 2009, Black Friday retailers will attempt to woo budget-crunched holiday shoppers into brick-and-mortar stores like never before. We’ve seen a number of innovative approaches in advance of Black Friday…5. Grocery Store Status Bags - Bargain Priced Chanel and LV Bags at Costco in NYC (GALLERY)  Did you ever think you would find Chanel and Louis Vuitton bags at Costco? Well, the new Costco Warehouse Shopping Club in New York City is carrying designer handbags including those from Chanel, Louis…6. 15 Shopping Cart Creations - From Smart Pushcarts to Load-Baring Bicycles (CLUSTER)  I don’t know why, but somehow whenever I start my grocery shopping, I tend to forget to grab a shopping cart. This is usually a bad thing as I usually mean business when I enter a grocery store. It seems…7. City-Exclusive Fashion Lines - Chanel Shanghai will be the Most Refined Boutique East of Paris (VIDEO)  Famed luxury fashion house Chanel will open a new boutique in China. Chanel Shanghai will open on November 25th in what the company is promising to be their most refined boutique ever. Shanghai, an extremely…8. Futuristic Parisian Bakeries - La Patisseries De Reves Creates a Unique Shopping Experience (GALLERY)  So, of course you would expect the French to have great patisseries, I mean, that is a given. But would you expect a delicious patisserie to also be an experiment in innovative design, as well? The French…9. Dripping Chocolate Ceilings - The Godiva Chocoiste is a Chocoholic's Paradise (GALLERY)  I am a chocoholic and I think that Godiva’s new flagship store in Harajuku (an ultra-hip area in Tokyo, Japan) might be my mecca. Designed by Wonderwall the concept Godiva Chocoiste has a dripping chocolate…10. Raw Meat Fashions - The "Eat Your Steak. Be A Man." Campaign From Goodman Steak House (VIDEO)  There are some things that don’t go together—white clothes and mud, bad breath and kissing—and you’d think raw meat and naked skin would be up there as well. Not according to Goodman Steak House and their…11. 20 Fantastic Food Deliveries - From Subscription-Based Sweets to Healthy Office Snacks (CLUSTER)  Many food startups are using delivery-based business models and focusing on specific niche markets. It's a unique and innovative concept that stands to defy the era of big-box retailing.
Despite the…12. High-End Fashion History - Prada Book Documents Its Place in Culture, Fashion & Art (VIDEO)  Italian fashion powerhouse Prada has announced the release of a book documenting the label’s history in fashion, art, architecture and film. The Prada book, otherwise known as 'Prada: Creativity, Modernity,…13. Trippy Tea Party Displays - Burobeluga Window Arrangements are Pieces of Art (GALLERY)  Window displays are basically pieces of art, with all the work and design that goes into them. This can be said about the design team at Burobeluga window displays.
Using similar themes and colors as…14. Color-Coded Wines - 94wines Uses Numbers and Colors for Customer Personalization (GALLERY)  If you’re a wine connoisseur, it’s probably unimaginable to buy wine in which you have no idea what country it was from and when it was made. The Dutch company 94wines, however, is offering numbered and…15. 10 Bizarre Barcode Variations - Innovations Worthy of a Universal Product Code (CLUSTER)  When retail commercial items become mainstream enough to earn a barcode—Universal Product Code (UPC) numbers—one can safely assume that these items have earned some degree of widespread popularity.
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Popular Last Month1. Glamorizing Diverse Body Types - Plus Size Models Galore Appear in Glamour Magazine's October Issue  With positive reviews of its September issue still fresh in everyone’s mind, Glamour Magazine will feature eight nude and beautiful plus-size models in their October 2009 issue.
Glamour Magazine really…2. Personal Shoe Shoppers - Get Your Shoes Handpicked For You with ShoeDazzle (GALLERY)  ShoeDazzle is to shoes what Hipstery is to t-shirts (just to refresh your memory, a little while ago Trend Hunter covered Hipstery, a company that selects tees for its customers). ShoeDazzle provides customers…3. Fast Food-Inspired Branding - Breadedescalope Cooks Up a New 'Grow to Go' Identity for Wildwuchs (GALLERY)  Everything is becoming increasingly convenient; design studio Breadedescalope has decided to take note from the fast food epidemic to transform the flower shop, Wildwuchs, around their new motto ‘Grow…4. Pop Culture Pop-Up Shops - DC Comics Pop-Up Shops at Bloomingdale's Celebrate Its 75th (GALLERY)  As part of a holiday collaboration and celebration of DC Comics’ 75th anniversary, Bloomingdale’s will be installing DC Comics pop-up shops in its denim departments.
The DC Comics pop-up shops will include…5. Mainstream Lifestyle Apparel Brands - Independent T-Shirt Start-Ups Rapidly Turn Into Mega Brands (GALLERY)  The Busted Knuckle Garage. Balmy Palms. Life is Good. Johnny Cupcakes. What do all these brands have in common? They all started as bootstrap lifestyle brands, with a few logo t-shirts created by innovative…6. Anonymous Apparel - The Hipstery T-Shirts Offer Customers an Element of Surprise (GALLERY)  Using surprise and mystery as the foundation of its business approach, the online t-shirt shop Hipstery hopes to challenge our era of information and choice. Hipstery sells tees without designs on them.…7. New Storefront Ventures - Microsoft Launched Its First Retail Store in Scottsdale (GALLERY)  Microsoft has taken a cue from its competitors (namely Apple) and opened its first storefront retail operation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Microsoft launched its first retail store with long lines, excited…8. In-Store Online Shopping - Intel Point-of-Sale Kiosk Skips Sales Personnel But Not Fitting Rooms (VIDEO)  Online shopping is an almighty gift to the consumer as far as speed and convenience is concerned. With the Intel Point-of-Sale Kiosk that experience just became pretty much foolproof.
The Intel Point-of-Sale…9. Adverbags - Habitat Shoe Boutique Showcases Latest Products on Its Bags (GALLERY)  How do you showcase your store’s hottest items without spending tons on commercials or print ads? Through your shopping bags, of couse. Habitat Shoe Boutique has found a way to promote and display its…10. Crowd-Funded Eco-Inventions - '321 Water Bottle' Designer Calls on Crowds to Fund Production (GALLERY)  Early this year, Marissa spotted a new eco-friendly water bottle design called the ‘321 Water Bottle’ which blends the portability of bottled water with the potability of a filtration system.
Fast forward…11. Nutritious Vending Snacks - Lo Fresco's Healthy Vending Machines Offer Good-for-You Foods (GALLERY)  To me, it’s almost a nightmare—the fact that normal snacks like chips, chocolate bars and cookies will give way to fruit, veggies, and granola bars. But whether I like it or not, healthy vending machines…12. Shoepod Packaging - Molded Pulp Carton Mimics Nature's Containers  Boulder, Colorado-based Newton Running produces shoes with a low environmental impact, so it makes sense that the company would also want to make environmentally sustainable packaging to ship them in.…13. Personalized Flip-Flops - RIVETZ Lets You Design Your Dream Sandals Online  How cool would it be if you could design your own thongs to suit your personal taste in fashion? Well, thanks to the launch of RIVETZ, an Australian company that has managed to combine modern fashion with…14. Stylish Craft Storefronts - Sew Crafty in Houston is for Upscale DIYers (GALLERY)  The Sew Crafty store in Houston is the latest example of how DIY is gaining ground. Stores like Build-a-Bear used to have a stigma attached to them (and were only acceptable when celebrating children’s…15. Artificial Intelligence Hamsters - Robotic Zhu Zhu Pets are the New Elmo of This Holiday Season (VIDEO)  Move over Elmo; Zhu Zhu Pets are the toys to covet this holiday season. While we never expected it to happen (after all, who could deny Elmo?), these cute, cuddly, and artificially intelligent hamsters… |
