Grocery stores are carefully engineered spaces. Here’s how layouts quietly influence spending more than shoppers realize.

A few months ago, I popped into a department store to grab a shirt for an event that night. Five minutes later, I’d looped past the same endcap twice and somehow ended up in housewares, miles from ...

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modell’s, Subway (although somehow the ...

When nearly anything can be bought with a few taps on a screen, brick-and-mortar stores have to work harder—and smarter—to earn a visit. Retail design, and the magic of merchandising, is something ...