The retail business in India is approximately $470 billion. Out of this the Modern retail is around $26 billion or 6% of the total retail industry. The modern retail as of today is projected to reach $1.3 trillion in another 5 years with the retail market in the organized sector expected to grow to $107 billion every year i.e. at a rate of 40%. We can see that entry of retailers in different types or formats of outlets including online stores will have an irreversible change in the consumer buying pattern and also the industry overall. On the other hand, unlike numerous other countries, India posses a distinctive character of size, diversity, multiplicity of formats, demographics and geographical spread. Retailers today are faced with the problem …show more content…
The estimates say that in the next three years, the modern retail format of outlets would have close to 19% share of the totalretail marketing. If we look at some of the consumer product companies we see that modern retailers today contribute close to 10% of their total sale though out the country and more than 20% in the metro cities. The most excellent result of thegrowth of modern retail formats in India is a boost of alternatives among customers. With thebeginning of modern retail formats in the up-and-coming marketplaces, we have observed growth in the areas of technology and superior quality levels of produce, competitive pricing techniques and also a number of employment …show more content…
Posters and placards can be used to direct attention. Once the customer is through the door, you have a chance to make a sale. A successful retail store puts all of these factors together.
Merchandise displays generally take one of several basic forms:
Storefront Window Displays— These typically open on to a street or shopping mall walk or courtyard and are intended to attract passerby that might not otherwise enter the store.
Showcase Displays— These typically feature items that 1) are deemed to be too valuable for display in storefront set-ups, or 2) are niche items of high interest to the business 's primary clientele. These display centers are usually located in high traffic areas and typically feature multiple tiers for product display and a sliding door on the clerk 's side for access.
"Found-Space" Displays—This term refers to product presentations that utilize small but nonetheless usable areas of the store, such as the tops of product carousels or available wall space.
Storefront window displays and "found space" displays are particularly popular tools for publicizing and selling sale items.
The effectiveness of these cornerstones of merchandising display strategy can be increased by remembering several other tips as well, including the
I had never really thought about the layout until Patel discussed the atmospherics in the grocery store. Everything from the lighting to the smell distracts us from the fact we are in a giant warehouse and allows us to part with our money. Patel even mentioned that the milk is often times at the back of the store because it is the most common thing bought and grocery stores want you to buy
By having many choices for consumers the store can make the sale and the consumer can get exactly what they want, whether it be the cheap, average, or high end
Target’s design implements the retailer 's strategy to influence the customer 's buying
“‘My mother says that I’m the best-paid spy in America,’ he told me. He laughed, but he wasn’t entirely joking” (Gladwell 98). The ‘he’ referred to is retail anthropologist and urban geographer, Paco Underhill. In “ The Science of Shopping” by Malcom Gladwell, Gladwell gets an inside look on the specific reasonings of why each store is set up the way that it is. There is a true science to how every single shopping location displays it’s products.
The atmosphere of any setting is continuously fluctuating in both obvious and vague ways. A hardware store such as Home Depot is a prominent example of this fluctuation. Home Depot has been providing hardware products for both home and business improvement needs since 1978. Home Depot sells products that fall under categories such as: paint, lumber, electrical, plumbing, garden, and more. The diversity among the customer population is wide ranging, from the different ethnicities, nationalities, and gender shopping on any given day.
One of the major problems Target has had is dealing with inventory. Target uses specific companies to meet online orders. When a company places an order online, employees from a specific store, closer to the address where it needs to be shipped, fulfills that order using inventory from that store. By doing so, shelves from that specific store are emptied causing sales to slow down due to the lack of products. Target understands that changes need to be made to correct its inventory woes and plan to keep on growing in its e-commerce business (Meola,
These stores eliminated the need for awkward negotiations. Also, most of these stores were “richly decorated” to provide a “pleasurable experience” (Keene, 483). They had marble columns, decorative ceilings, and strategically placed statues. These merchants provided a place that “shoppers,” as they were called, could get anything they needed, and more (Keene, 483). These aesthetic elements opened up a world of retail and marketing.
the business needs to sell and distribute the products to wholesalers who will then sell them to retailers. Or the business will sell directly to the retailers. We would sell our product in the supermarket at the front, or the cereal aisle because it would instantly grab the customers attention when they come into the store. Also it would be wise to put our product in the cereal area because people might shop by
229). From Mills, Paul and Moorman (1995) perspective, visual merchandising is set of actions such as special events, in store advertising and promotion, displays placement aimed at selling the goods and to distinguish products on shelf. As drown from Business Dictionary, apart from sales displays, visual merchandising also in-cludes retail planning and window decorations aimed at engaging consumers and increase sales activity. And key task of visual merchandising is to make product’s best features and benefits visible and distinctive to consumer (Business Dictionary, 2015). It is of significant impotence to distinguish visual merchandising and merchandising phenomenon.
This can be seen by the set up in the stores. Gladwell tells of Paco’s retailing commandment when he says,” a women’s product that requires extensive examination should never be placed in a narrow aisle”(Gladwell 67). The setup of the stores encourages women to be comfortable to examine products and stay in the culture of being able to bring their taste. The culture though molded by how products are placed in
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum showcases Mrs. Gardner 's collection to the public in greater Boston area. Each room functions as a pilgrimage, as one travels through various countries and time periods ending at the chapel and subsequently the Gothic room. In this paper, I will examine the Gothic room 's theme in relation to the placement of its objects. I will also evaluate the room 's strengths and challenges in serving the public, and how the practices employed in this room fit into the context of accessibility for the entire museum.
Retail positioning aims to provide competitive edge by differentiating the retailer from its competition. This differentiation can be achieved through retail offerings that appeal to, and are easily identifiable to by its target market. This process is done by selecting market segmentations and matching them to the retail offerings as precisely as possible. It is vital to understand the consumers needs and wants in order to make a proper match and be distinguished from other retailers. Nordstrom distinguishes itself from other retailers by positioning itself as an upscale fashion store with outstanding customer service, and its multichannel approach.
Market size and forecast by value and volume Built-in appliances have a huge growth in India. Rising population, purchasing power and increasing expenditure on promotional programs and by companies in order to aware customers has led to the growth of the built-in appliance segment in India. High-end consumers are seeking more lifestyle-based home products today. Whirlpool’s
The structure of media messages is deliberately crafted and packaged to persuade, inform, entertain, and to educate a target audience. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher that created the five canons of rhetoric which includes Arrangement, delivery, memory, style and invention. All media messages have a structure using the five canons of rhetoric analysis of content. Invention Invention is the first principle of rhetoric.
Since the beginning of the 1990’s, e-commerce has radically changed consumer behaviour by introducing new retail channels (Ngai and Gunasekaran, 2007). Serious attempts to trade online started to emerge in the mid-1990s wheninnovative, technically savvy companies responded to the opportunities and challenges posed by the internet, to develop sophisticated web sites to serve customers, in their homes (Rayport and Sviokla, 1994). The present retail environment is characterised by new, store and non- store, retailing formats, a wide range of new products, use of new information and communication technologies and consequently, the changing customer needs. Moreover, the dynamic lifestyle conditions of consumers has resulted a change in their personal environment that contributes to a profound change in customer behaviour (Schröder and Zaharia, 2008). Retailing in the 21st century means doing business with customers on their terms (Mathwicket al., 2002).