Your Holiday Retail Wishlist

While retailers are starting to distribute their holiday wish books and consumers are starting to draft their own personal wishlists to send to Santa, at ARO we have pulled together a retailer’s wishlist to get the store fixtures and store supplies you need to boost holiday sales. Retail Holiday Store Supplies Keep all your apparel and accessories looking their best …

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Using Store Fixtures in Edmonton to Make a Big Impression

For repeat business in the retail industry, it is critical that you make a good first impression. From the minute customers walk into your store, you want them greeted by a salesperson and wowed by your merchandise displays. Customers who receive top hospitality and see a vibrant, clean store will come back and tell others about your business.

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Incredible Slatwall Product Offerings

With offices in Winnipeg and Edmonton, all of us at Action Retail Outfitters are 100% dedicated to providing customers throughout North America an outstanding experience. We strive to be the sole source for the design, supply, and execution of retail environments. Our goal is to provide solutions that optimize store space to drive business and boost profits.

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Action Retail Outfitters is Now Selling Store Fixtures On-Line

Action Retail Outfitters is happy to announce that we are now selling store fixtures and accessories on-line. We have launched our e-commerce site to help support our strong customer base in Western Canada, giving them a 24-hour opportunity to order for their retail needs. Our on-line assortment is currently focused on over 100 of the most commonly purchased retail fixtures …

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Virtual Shopping Gets Real

Virtual reality is becoming so prevalent it’s threatening to overtake the real thing. So the fact that it’s creeping into the retail environment should surprise no one. Think people with their faces crammed into massive headsets loaded with increasingly sophisticated immersive software that’s transporting them to other places by the sights and sounds emanating therefrom. A whack of different players …

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How to Have a Merry Christmas: Advice for Retailers

The Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M University, a College Station, TX-based resource for developing talent for more than 25 years, has released some holiday shopping tips designed to help retailers get the most out of the season. Here are three of the best: • Embrace the Sophisticated Customer Retailers overlook the tuned-in and ramped-up state of their customers …

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Holiday Shopping: Getting in the Mood

Evolving shopping habits and an increasingly multi-channel retail environment add an extra degree of challenge for retailers looking to exploit the annual shopping fest that is the holiday season. Making the most of it, says new research from academics from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, comes down to being sensitive to the states of consumers’ mind while they’ve …

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Tech Store Straddles Digital Divide

Much has been said about the challenge facing brick-and-mortar stores as they increasingly fold a digital reality into their existence. The “if you can’t fight ’em, join ’em” philosophy has taken firm hold now — but lots of retailers continue to struggle with the details of how to adopt it. A new AT&T store, opened this week in Spokane, Washington, …

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Brazilian Bookstore Scores Best Retail Interior Prize

A bookstore in Sao Paulo can lay claim to having the best retail interior in the world — at least for the moment. The judges who presided over this year’s Inside Awards at the World Festival of Interiors have awarded the Cultura Bookstore “Best Retail Interior of 2014” honours at this annual international celebration of interior design love, held this …

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