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Store Design
Store design decisions carry significant capital risk. A concept that looks compelling in a design brief but underperforms in reality can cost millions before you catch it. RetailNext gives store planning and design teams the behavioral evidence to validate new concepts, test layout changes, and measure the actual impact of design decisions on shopper journeys and sales performance before committing those decisions to your entire fleet. Stop relying on intuition. Start designing stores based on how shoppers actually behave inside them.
Validate Concepts Before You Scale
Test new store formats in pilot locations with full performance tracking. Compare against control stores, measure impact on conversion and shopper yield, and bring hard evidence to the fleet-wide rollout decision, instead of betting millions on a hunch.
See How Shoppers Actually Navigate Your Store
Full-path analysis, heat mapping, and dwell metrics reveal the real story of how customers move through your space — including the friction points, dead zones, and unexpected behaviors that desk research and design reviews never surface.
Prove the ROI of Every Design Decision
Every layout change, renovation, and new format carries a capital cost. RetailNext quantifies the performance impact of design investments with before/after measurement data — giving your finance and leadership teams the evidence they need to approve the next one.
Great Store Design Starts With REAL SHOPPER BEHAVIOR.
Full-path analysis, heat mapping, and dwell time analytics give store planning teams the behavioral evidence to design stores that actually work — and the proof to show they do.
Built for the decisions that SHAPE YOUR STORES.
Store planning and design teams use RetailNext to replace intuition-driven design decisions with behavioral evidence at every stage — from concept through rollout.
Test New Formats Without the Full Fleet Risk.
Before committing capital to a fleet-wide rollout, RetailNext lets you test new store concepts in pilot locations with full visibility into how shoppers respond. Compare your pilot stores against matched control locations, measure performance across the metrics that matter, and arrive at the rollout decision with evidence.
- Deploy new store formats in select locations with comprehensive performance tracking
- Compare test stores against control locations to isolate the impact of design changes
- Measure traffic, conversion, dwell time, and shopper yield across both groups
- Build the evidence base for fleet-wide investment decisions before committing the capital
Optimize the Floor Before It's Built.
Planograms and design reviews can't predict how shoppers will actually navigate a new layout. RetailNext maps real shopper paths through full-path analysis, identifies friction points and dead zones, and gives design teams the data to iterate and refine a layout before investing in a permanent build.
- Visualize complete shopper journeys from entrance through every zone to exit
- Identify areas where customers get lost, disengage, or fail to reach key product categories
- Test layout variations across comparable stores to identify optimal configurations
- Optimize traffic flow to feature areas, new arrivals, and high-margin categories
Quantify the Return on Every Design Investment.
Design decisions are capital decisions. RetailNext provides the before/after measurement framework to quantify the performance impact of store remodels, format changes, and new concept rollouts — turning "we think this worked" into a financial case with real numbers attached.
- Measure pre- and post-renovation performance across traffic, conversion, and shopper yield
- Quantify the ROI of specific design elements — fixture changes, layout shifts, entrance reconfigurations
- Track how long performance improvements persist after a redesign
- Build a repeatable measurement framework for ongoing capital investment decisions
Find the Format That Works Best for Your Brand.
Retailers operating across multiple store formats — flagship, standard, small format, outlet — need to understand how each format performs against the others, and why. RetailNext enables direct performance comparison across formats, controlling for traffic and location factors to reveal the genuine performance differences between your store types.
- Compare conversion rates, shopper yield, and dwell time across different store formats
- Control for traffic volume and location factors to make format comparisons meaningful
- Identify which formats are delivering the best performance for your brand and customer base
- Inform future new-store format decisions with portfolio-level performance data



Powered by the Aurora® sensor
The full-path and behavioral data behind every design decision is captured by the award-winning Aurora® sensor — the all-in-one IoT device at the heart of the RetailNext platform.
What DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN Looks Like in Practice.
Store design teams at leading retailers use RetailNext to replace capital risk with behavioral evidence.
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Common Questions
About Store Design
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How does RetailNext help store design teams validate new store concepts before a fleet-wide rollout?
RetailNext lets you pilot a new concept in selected stores and compare them against matched control locations, measuring traffic, conversion, dwell, and shopper yield across both groups. You reach the rollout decision with hard evidence of how shoppers actually respond — before committing the capital.
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What does full-path analysis show, and how is it different from standard heat mapping?
Heat mapping shows where shoppers concentrate; full-path analysis shows the complete journey each shopper takes — entrance to exit, zone to zone — revealing routes, friction points, and where customers fail to reach key categories. Together they give design teams both the "where" and the "how" of shopper movement.
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How does RetailNext measure the ROI of a store renovation or remodel?
RetailNext provides a before/after measurement framework across traffic, conversion, and shopper yield, so you can attribute performance changes to specific design elements — fixture changes, layout shifts, entrance reconfigurations — and track how long the improvement persists, turning a remodel into a quantified financial case.
About Buying and Implementing
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Which RetailNext products are most relevant for store planning and design teams?
Insights (full-path analysis, heat mapping, interior analytics) is the core product for design teams, with Traffic Analytics providing the accurate traffic baseline that makes before/after comparisons valid. Both run on the Aurora® sensor.
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How do we set up a proper test-and-control methodology for store concept testing with RetailNext?
RetailNext supports matched test-vs-control store comparisons — selecting control locations with similar traffic and demographics, isolating the design variable, and measuring the same metrics across both groups. Our team helps design the test so the results are statistically meaningful.
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How quickly can store design teams see meaningful behavioral data after implementation?
Installations are accuracy-audited at go-live, so traffic and path data is reliable immediately; baseline behavioral patterns are usable within the first reporting cycles, with before/after comparisons becoming conclusive as the test period accumulates data.