Retail & Concepts
Boundaries between hospitality and retail fade out. More and more large department stores, luxury boutiques, book stores, furniture stores and cooking stores open coffee corners, lunch areas or even oyster bars.
Satelliet Meubelen offers fitting solutions for hospitality in retail. Creative ideas for a hospitality concept in your store. Your customer will spend more time in your place and the passer-by will be introduced to your product while enjoying a cup of coffee or lunch.
Online you buy all sorts of things at the best price. Trend watchers give this advice to physical shops: transfer from point of transaction to point of engagement using specialist know-how and providing experience for the client.
Keep the client in the store as long as possible, that is key in retail. Blurring is the answer to this. But what is it? Having a cup of coffee, eat a sandwich or even dine and in the meantime 'chew' on your possible purchase.
Is there still room for small scale entrepreneurship with the online business offering huge opportunities? Yes, very much so. Small creative shops and carefully selected product ranges appear to be very successful.
Consumers are environmentally conscious and they demand the same from the retailers. Research shows that nobody expects the retailers to be 100% right at it, however, transparancy and openness are important expectations.
