{"id":2247,"date":"2018-03-28T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2247"},"modified":"2024-04-25T03:09:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T03:09:58","slug":"putting-it-together-retail-image-layout-and-visual-merchandising","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/chapter\/putting-it-together-retail-image-layout-and-visual-merchandising\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: Retail Image: Layout and Visual Merchandising","rendered":"Putting It Together: Retail Image: Layout and Visual Merchandising"},"content":{"raw":"Whether a retailer is putting the rules of visual merchandising to work in a brick-and-mortar store, or on an online retail platform, he\u2019s working to maximize sales. \u00a0Visual merchandising is just that \u2013 a tool to encourage a shopper to buy more.\r\n\r\nLuckily for us, shoppers are predictable. \u00a0The way they walk through the store, what they like and don\u2019t like when they enter one, and how they want to handle the merchandise are all well studied and understood. \u00a0It\u2019s only up to the retailer to get creative about displaying her merchandise right.\r\n\r\nAs we said in the beginning, a customer makes 80% of his purchasing decisions in the store. \u00a0Visual merchandising is the retailer\u2019s tool to influence the customer and make more sales. That means more margin and more profit.\r\n\r\nThat\u2019s the best possible reason for visual merchandising.","rendered":"<p>Whether a retailer is putting the rules of visual merchandising to work in a brick-and-mortar store, or on an online retail platform, he\u2019s working to maximize sales. \u00a0Visual merchandising is just that \u2013 a tool to encourage a shopper to buy more.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us, shoppers are predictable. \u00a0The way they walk through the store, what they like and don\u2019t like when they enter one, and how they want to handle the merchandise are all well studied and understood. \u00a0It\u2019s only up to the retailer to get creative about displaying her merchandise right.<\/p>\n<p>As we said in the beginning, a customer makes 80% of his purchasing decisions in the store. \u00a0Visual merchandising is the retailer\u2019s tool to influence the customer and make more sales. That means more margin and more profit.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the best possible reason for visual merchandising.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2247\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Putting It Together: Retail Image: Layout and Visual Merchandising. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Freedom Learning Group. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":62559,"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Putting It Together: Retail Image: Layout and Visual Merchandising\",\"author\":\"Freedom Learning Group\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"14dbe564-d69f-405c-9558-a8dd6bdb451d","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2247","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":2203,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2247\/revisions\/3767"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2203"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2247\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-retailmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}