Also called: Store Designer
Plans the layout of stores so shoppers can find things and want to buy them.
A store planner decides where every shelf, display table, and checkout goes, often for hundreds of stores in a chain. They study shopper traffic data and test layouts in prototype stores. Work blends design, psychology, and business.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in interior design or architecture.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Interior Design, Architecture, Retail Management.
Growing slowly. Retail is changing but physical stores still need planning.
Medium risk for 10 years. Data tools and AI test layouts against sales data; brand experience and how shoppers move still need designers.
Classes: Drafting CAD, Marketing or DECA, Geometry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-1025.
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