A (new) weekly rundown of some of the blog posts and other items that I’ve found interesting this week, but didn’t get a chance to share:
Retail Design Diva writes about the new Lord & Taylor Summer window displays (see: Making Waves on Fifth Avenue). With photography from the new Georgia Aquarium, it sounds like a very extravagant window display. I’d love to see it, but with it only being around until 5/4, I don’t know If I will get up there to see it firsthand. Photos, anyone?
Home Depot Canada will continue self-checkout rollout says Home Channel News. Wish more self-service checkouts were in the American stores. Nothing like going to Home Depot on a sunday afternoon and there only being two cashiers. At least self service checkouts would speed things up, somewhat.
Finn over at Lightheavyweight wrote the very simply titled KISS a few weeks back. Didn’t get a chance to share it then, but I’d recommend reading it. A reminder than simple, sometimes is better.
And I have to do some self promotion, again. As a reminder, this week I launched Big Box Watch, which is a web application plotting new retail construction using a Google Map interface. There’s also a blog there, and this week I talked about the expansion of JCPenney and their foray into Manhattan and I also posted some news about Best Buy’s store openings in the next three months.