Small Format Archives - WSL Strategic Retail

What’s Fueling 2025?

This SPECIAL EDITION Retail Safari® features the best retail highlights from 2024. Consider these innovations as you plan 2025 for easier shopping and happiness, as well as new ways to present savings. We include a special section on Hispanic shoppers because of their influence as the “new American family.” This edition features the following themes: ... Read more

Retail Safari® SNAP – November 2024 Edition

In this issue, we present two quick shop destinations, each different, but each focused on helping the shopper make smart choices. Plus, a skincare experience driven by AI featuring K-Beauty. Ground Blue 49 – Seoul, South Korea Whole Foods – New York, NY IM Type – Seoul, South Korea Retail Safari® SNAP fuels you, ... Read more

Retail Safari® SNAP – September 2024 Edition

In this issue, we present fantastic in-store retail experiences highlighting merchandising, convenient shopping, and a refreshed, simplified format. YETI – Chicago, IL Amazon Fresh – Eatontown, NJ LUSH – Brea, CA Retail Safari® SNAP fuels you, and your teams, with the latest global retail innovation– in a snap. Within the SNAP presentation, don’t miss ... Read more

Retail Safari® SNAP – May 2024 Edition

In this issue we present the ultimate in-store retail experiences with focus on community, sustainability, and quick, easy meals: Samsung Gangnam – Seoul, South Korea The Body Shop – Toronto, Canada Trader Joe's Pronto – New York, NY Retail Safari® SNAP fuels you, and your teams, with the latest global retail innovation– in a ... Read more

Categories Reimagined: Visual Merchandising Creates a Discovery Zone

The physical store is the discovery zone where most shoppers go to find something new, stock-up on groceries or find an item they need right now. In this Retail Safari®, we identify: Four retailers and brands who have reimagined category merchandising with inspiring in-store destinations One brand who has created a virtual storefront to digitally ... Read more

How to Attract Shoppers During a “Permanent” Price Correction

91% of shoppers say that rising prices are not transient inflation, but they expect that prices on groceries will stay at 2023 levels (or go higher)[1]. In this Retail Safari®, we identify: 16 examples of retailers, brands, and digital platforms helping shoppers live within their stretch budget Examples in food and beverage (plus some in ... Read more

Smart Space: Next-Gen Department Stores & Brand Pop-Up Shops

As retailers and brands downsize and use their space more creatively, what categories, themes, and experiences are making the cut? In this Retail Safari®, we identify the key themes that brands and retailers are using to make these hard decisions. Each is creating emotional platforms that respond to what shoppers want: fast shopping mixed with ... Read more

The Right Size Round-Up: Small Formats

The smaller format store has become so much more than “right sizing” of the space. We know from our How America Shops® report that 72% of shoppers make quick trips to stores and online quick trips are making inroads. To compete, brick stores are resizing to smaller formats that facilitate a quick in-and-out, and also deliver ... Read more