In the field of human judgement and decision making there are on-going tensions between different perspectives and models relating to rational reasoning and optimising versus simplifying through the use of heuristics and satisficing. This distinction is often linked to differentiating between System 1 (e.g., intuitive, associative, reflexive) and System 2 (e.g., deliberate, analytic, reflective) modes… Read More
How Come Shopping Frequently Remains Hard Work for Consumers?
One of the major changes occurring in the past forty years is a shift from conditions of limited information on products, specifically greater difficulty to access or obtain sufficient relevant information, to conditions of abundant information, whereby demanding greater effort to screen, learn and evaluate the rich and detailed information, visual and verbal. The abundance… Read More
Retailing From the Viewpoint of Young Bright Talents in Design
It is the 13th year in a row that VMSD magazine (Visual Merchandising & Store Design) publishes its annual list of winners of the Designer Dozen award (March 2025). The young designers chosen (age 35 and under) are considered the best and brightest designers in retail in their generation. The 12 designers specialise in interior… Read More
Retail in Recovery
Wherever relief from COVID-19 is evident, we can see signs of recovery in offline retail, that is at physical stores and shops. In the first months of 2021 countries have lapsed again into third and fourth waves of COVID and lockdowns, which caused a reversal of earlier signs of recovery experienced. But where a recent… Read More
