When you walk into a retail store, do you think about how it was designed?
@TheOnlyAaron brings a retail space to life this week on SketchUp Live. We’ve got endcaps, customer traffic patterns, and SketchUp tips aplenty.
If you’ve ever worked in retail or tried to plan a store layout, this is your place to vent! See you there.
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2025-02-14T19:00:00Z
Retail what-now? Oh man! I need you guys to show up and help me out on this one! I mean, I know my way around SketchUp, but what are the best practices in a great retail location? How does one best visualize customer flow through a space? What should we sell in our store??
Please help me answer these questions this Friday! See you there!!
Well good luck with this 
Big space, small space. What are you selling. What’s your typical customer. Do you want your customers to have the Wall Mart experience or the Bass Pro Shops or maybe L.Vuitton. Lots of questions that need figured out. 
Looks like you will NEED to be there!!
Ahhhh…… think I’m going to be sick that day 
Footfall… the only thing that matters… getting feet thru the door / opening…
Did 4 years of retail for 3 major chains across Australia… in the mid 80s… documented them in 3d using DataCad… it was a lot of fun! loved it…
Bloody hell… ■■■■ (dam) you are doing it at some ungodly hour for us in Australia Aaron
If you can get your hands on “Interior Graphic and Design Standards” by S.C. Reznikoff. There’s good general info on retail space design, especially good drawings of fixtures. Have no clue what might be available on the internet. The book was a “go to” for me before I got sucked into the computer age.
ooohh this is going to be a great one, Aaron! First thoughts - what type of retail? Hardware/DIY, Food, Clothing? I’m guessing you’d personally be happy with a hardware store, so plan lots of racks with lumber in one aisle and so on. And allow enough swing space with the lumber so the customer doesn’t take out half the products on display and other customers as well! 
Basic fault many retail layouts have is convergence, i.e. eliminating pinch-points around key areas. It’s something I have to consider all the time in my designs. Also rack heights are often made so high that you can’t read the hanging signs to find out where you want to go next!
Looking forward to this one.
here you both go…
Items related to Retail planning start at pg 442
Thanks but I’ve already got my copy. 
i figured, but I wasnt sure if Aaron did especially because of his lack of use of guidlines…
as well Aaron, here is a brief outline…
