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How to keep your core customer coming back with interior design.

How to keep your core customer coming back with interior design.

by bgaddis | Mar 3, 2023 | Architecture, COVID19, Design, market trends, Restaurants

Few would deny that the post Covid business environment is vastly different than was the pre-pandemic world of an “entertaining experience.”  The fundamental need to congregate is still strong, for sure, but the shopper is often looking for something much...

Double Vision

by bgaddis | Feb 22, 2013 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Roll Out, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning

I have probably posted these notes about daytime storefronts in the wrong order.  This post  really should have been first because the images provide a visual definition of the main problem a designer faces when dealing with storefront display options at a time of day...

The Power of Visual Attraction

by bgaddis | Aug 3, 2012 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Roll Out, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning

I am posting the image above because I want to analyze its huge power of attraction and demonstrate how to apply the technique to a retail store concept design.   It is important to understand that this is a 2 dimensional image made to look like 3.  If you were to see...

No question of differentiation here.

by bgaddis | Jul 24, 2012 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Roll Out, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning

  Last week was Northern Virgina “Retail Week.”  I attended several presentations by Marc Wilson, retail expert and consultant to the  Virginia Small Business Development Center.  A page entitled, “Differentiate the Business” appeared in...

Unbranding the Brand, Part I.

by bgaddis | May 21, 2012 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning

At the AIA convention this week I attended an event entitled:  Bathesda Row a Retrospective Look at a Retail Icon.  For anyone not familiar with it, Bethesda Row it is a highly successful mixed use development project that took place over 17 or so years.  It is a...
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