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This isn’t any Model this is an M&S Model
The recession has had a reinvigorating effect on the retail industry, forcing them to look through eyes anew for inventive and innovative techniques that encourage cost-effectiveness for now and sustainability for the future. Merchandisers especially have had to learn ways in which to work creatively with existing tools or make careful and wise investments in key resources that have versatility moving forwards.
Configuring shop floor plans and arranging in-store layouts is a taxing job and can leave many head office managers more than a little perplexed. M&S Food had an ingenious solution of creating a model that would assist its head office team in planning its store layouts for new stores or offers within existing stores and came to us late last year to see if we could help.
For a number of months our design and styling experts worked closely with M&S Food, and used their bespoke design and build expertise to manufacture a realistic and portable 1:50 custom-made scale floor plan model.
The miniature (A1 sized) model has been made with a magnetic base and three inch magnetic store units including chilled fridges, freezers, salad, fruit & vegetable stands, ambient units, tills, flower buckets, wine racks, cross merchandisers and even includes miniature plastic people.
Using magnets in the design ensures M&S Food can re-configure and move the layout around the space with ease and plan the optimum interior layout of its foodhall merchandising. Its use will also help M&S Food work out footfall, access and mobility issues, giving a real sense of how all its foodhalls across the UK should look. The model is also portable and will be taken to individual M&S Food stores for management teams to work with head office on creating the best layout for their store.
By combining inspired and creative design with a functional solution, we were able to help M&S Food create a useful, cost-effective and sustainable means of implementing store floor plans, The client was extremely excited to start using the model and engaging the team in how beneficial and fun it will be for them, when planning their future store designs.
If you have a bespoke design and build project you’d like help with then please get in touch with us@graceandtailor.co.uk
LOGISTIK GROUP: Sweet caffeinated joy - http://youtu.be/M0D3jKLz6sA. Our Brenda (the vendor) may need a little update hint hint.... ;-)
What's most depressing about the end of summer?
| Lang | Value |
|---|---|
| The nights start getting darker | 2 |
| I've had my annual holiday | 1 |
| The fact it never felt like summer | 4 |
| That it's only three and a bit months until Christmas | 2 |
| All the girls put their legs back into wooly tights | 4 |
| All the boys stop taking their tops off | 2 |
| Nothing, autumn is an enchanted fairyland | 3 |
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