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Permanent vs. Temporary Retail Displays

Point-of-purchase (POP) displays are at the core of retail merchandising. The right display does more than hold products — it grabs shopper attention and encourages impulse buying. When showcasing your products in-store, you must determine the type of display that meets your product and marketing needs.

Your budget, product types and marketing campaigns will determine whether to focus on permanent or temporary displays. Your strategy might combine long-term and short-term POP promotions or straddle the line with semi-permanent merchandisers. Let’s weigh the benefits of permanent vs. temporary retail displays to help you decide.

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How to Create the Perfect Holiday Retail Display for Your Products

How to Create the Perfect Holiday Retail Display for Your Products

The winter holiday season is an excellent opportunity for stores to facilitate retail engagement through increased purchases. Creating innovative and attention-grabbing holiday retail displays can help you advertise and sell more seasonal products. Strategic visual merchandising can go a long way in taking advantage of the profitability of holiday sales and offerings.

With a variety of retail holiday display ideas available, you will find ones that fit your budgetary needs and your marketing objectives. Learn more about the best holiday store display ideas to showcase your brand and optimize your business.
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What Does POG Stand For In Retail?

What Does POG Stand for in Retail?

With e-commerce on the rise, creating an impactful and compelling shopping experience is crucial to the success of any brick-and-mortar retailer. Yet, this requires a lot of forethought. From deciding the footpath customers should take to determining where product displays should go, optimizing the use of your retail space is not always easy. That’s where the POG can help.

The POG acronym stands for “planograms.” This visual retail merchandising tool helps retailers optimize the placement of products on their shelves. The ideal value of planograms is planning how to effectively use the physical space at your disposal, steer your shoppers, and ultimately increase customer purchases.

Read on to learn more about a POG and how it’s used in retail merchandising.

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Retail Displays Not Working? Here's Why and What to Do About It

Retail Displays Not Working? Here’s Why and What to Do About It

Retail displays have been around for decades. They’ve expanded from window displays to entrances and checkout lines to branded shelf space throughout the entire retail store. For many brands, in-store marketing is tried-and-true. Merchandising stands are used to increase brand awareness, encourage sales to lift, and introduce new products. If you are not experiencing the success you had hoped for with some of your recent displays, it is time to adjust your strategy. Here is what to avoid and what tactics will win more sales.

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Great Northern Instore Wins 17 OMA Awards at GlobalShop 2019!

The OMA Awards Competition is the premier award show recognizing the most innovative and effective in-store and point of purchase displays. This year we are pleased to have captured a total of 17 awards including 2 Gold Award Winners in the temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent categories.

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Great Northern Instore Wins DOT Awards

Design of the Times, an official contest and event of the Path to Purchase Institute, celebrates in-store displays and digital activations, and recognizes their role in an enhanced shopper experience.

The Path to Purchase Institute is a network attending to the needs of retailers, brands, and the entire network of solution providers along various channels. The Design of the Times, or DOT, celebrates creative merchandisers and marketers across a variety of specialty retail categories.

Great Northern Instore won 12 awards at the 2019 event, including two Gold winners. View them all here:

In 2020, the Path to Purchase Institute adjusted the format, and Great Northern Instore placed three finalists.  View their stories here:

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is more than a tagline, it is an attitude. At Great Northern, customer challenges are met by an undying spirit to doing what others can’t or won’t. It’s in our DNA. And it is what our customers have come to expect with Great Northern.

How can we exceed your expectations?