Menu
Store Design

Proactive College Leaders Transform Retail

February 07, 2019
In recent years, proactive college and university leaders have begun investigating ways to update and upgrade campus retail. The goal? Lower student costs while boosting satisfaction and academic achievement with experiential retail environments.The rise of the smartphone, big data and eBooks has altered the collegiate retail industry irrevocably. This creates stress for institutions accustomed to accruing stable revenues from a traditional brick-and-mortar college store.The experiential retail solutionStudents are demanding more from retail. Ninety-eight percent of surveyed young people born after 1996 still shop in conventional stores, according to Retail Dive. But, 56 percent of this coho [...]
UConn Bookstore

UConn Bookstores Save Students More Than $1.8M

December 04, 2018
Focused on enhancing college affordability and elevating the student experience, University of Connecticut (UConn) Bookstores are beginning their third year in partnership with Barnes & Noble College. Within the first two years, the Storrs campus store underwent a major renovation, students embr [...]
UK Bookstore

The University of Kentucky Goes Wild for a New Store

November 29, 2018
For the past few years, the UK Bookstore has been at the center of an important transformation: the $2.3 billion building and remodeling of facilities that serve nearly every stakeholder on the University of Kentucky campus. The new 30,000-square-foot bookstore opened in May, 2018, inside the recent [...]

More Than a Bookstore: Retail Solutions Customized for Your School

November 07, 2018
With decades of experience in higher education, Barnes & Noble College has acquired expertise in designing solutions that maximize success for different institutions. A four-year private liberal arts school, where most students live on campus, has needs that are distinct from those of a communit [...]
campus store

Rethinking the Campus Store

November 02, 2018
Higher education is changing — but so too is the traditional campus store model.With shifting student demographics, new digital learning tools and shrinking budgets, colleges and universities are seeking guidance on how to manage these challenges and deliver the best learning and teaching experien [...]

My “New” Kentucky Home: UK Bookstore Returns to Student Center

July 24, 2018
Administrators at the main branch of the University of Kentucky in Lexington like to call the student center the “living room of campus,” but for nearly three years that important gathering place has been under construction. The building has been undergoing a renovation from the ground up that f [...]
customizing bookstore

Customizing the Campus Bookstore to Better Serve Students and Schools

March 14, 2018
The personalization of learning isn’t just a trend — it’s integral to the evolution of 21st-century education. And it’s here to stay.Of course, expectations around personalization extend far beyond the learning experience. As consumers aided by technology, students enjoy opportunities to cus [...]

UNC Student Stores Hosts Grand Re-Opening

September 27, 2017
A grand re-opening of the UNC Student Stores was recently held to celebrate the major renovation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus bookstore.With a revamped café; expanded Bull’s Head Bookshop, which doubled in size with 70,000 titles; a new third-floor lounge; and one of [...]

Creating a Sense of Discovery Through Books

September 20, 2017
America’s music capital, Nashville, is also no stranger to the world of literature. Most famously, novelist’s Ann Patchett’s Parnassus Books was opened in 2011, championing the role of the independent bookstore in the local community. But Nashville is also home to the Barnes & Noble at Van [...]

Design of the Times

March 02, 2017
The ability to visually engage and attract customers through the retail experience is paramount to the success of any store. From the retro neon of a Fifties’ diner to the subtle earth-toned hues of Starbucks or the chalk drawn farm-stand appeal of Whole Foods Market, in an increasingly visual wor [...]
Sort by:
College-Student-Mindset