What is a pop-up shop?

Pop-up retail, also known as a pop-up store or flash retailing, is a trend of opening short-term sales spaces that last for days to weeks before closing down, often to catch onto a fad or timely event.

They are temporary retail spaces that sell merchandise of any kind;  mobile food trucks, designer fashion, book stores,  pet stores,  Christmas stores … if you have an idea and something to sell, this might be a great first step!

You can see pop-up stores in your shopping centre usually in the form of a small shopfront where one day it’s empty and the next there is a store there. You return next week and it may be gone again!

The Storefront explains in its article, how to create one for yourself.

Here’s a short, easy to read piece about how to go about starting your own pop-up store.

Kit Kat, Louis Vuitton, and In-N-Out Burger franchise have done the pop-up store thing and you can see for yourself on YouTube.

Want some short lessons on how to create a pop-up? Shopify gives you some tips!

Have you ever been to a pop-up shop? I can’t say that I have although, it’s a possibility that I did!