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About Adam
Adam Devey Smith has spent more than 40 years working out why people walk into one shop and not the one next door. He co-founded The One Off, a brand and retail experience agency with studios in London, Derbyshire, Mumbai and Bangalore, and runs it as Managing Partner. Clients have included Nike, Walmart, Samsung and Sky.
His work sits where brand strategy meets the shop floor. The agency has worked with George at Asda for 20 years and on the Sports Direct flagships at Oxford Circus and in Manchester. He also founded Unturned Stone, the group's research arm, and RetailSafari.com, which documents retail and hospitality concepts around the world.
He argues that the shop is the only medium that can overwrite a belief a customer holds about a brand. What does the overwriting is feeling. He breaks it down into four chemical responses: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins. Most retailers design for the eye. Smell, taste and sound, in his view, do far more to make a visit stick.
He has spoken at the GDI International Retail Summit in Rüschlikon.