Before the May 25, 2022 grand opening of Amazon Style — the retailer’s initial venture into fashion brick-and-mortar retail — some thought the Los Angeles space at the Americana at Brand would be dominated by technology and devoid of human interaction. But on the...
How the Pop-Up Market Has Matured
As pop-ups continue their growth in popularity throughout the retail world, Cushman & Wakefield examined how this niche model has evolved from the traditional pop-ups into the various non-traditional counterparts. The pop-up concept has been around for longer than...
Big Brands, Online Startups Find Success Rests on Store Shelves
American shoppers will buy almost anything online. But when it comes to household mainstays, from razors to tampons, the old-fashioned store still beckons. That reality is hitting some of the world’s biggest consumer-products companies, which collectively have...
Industrial REITs Are Expected to Continue Outperforming Their Peers in 2020
Against the backdrop of this year’s Cyber Monday generating record-shattering online sales estimated at $9.2 billion, commercial real estate experts envision e-commerce-fueled industrial REITs being a shining star of the REIT show in 2020. Meanwhile, in tandem with...
New Consumer Behaviors Drive Change in Holiday Retail Sector
According to a new report from CBRE, new trends are in store for retailers and shoppers this shortened holiday retail season include an earlier start to holiday promotions, new collaborations to shorten delivery windows and pare their cost. Other notable trends...
Restaurant Occupied Retail Properties Being Reshaped by 8 New Industry Trends
According to new research by CBRE, the U.S. restaurant industry and the retail real estate it occupies are being reshaped by fundamental industry shifts including the rapid growth of third-party, meal-delivery services, increasing adoption of in-store automation, and...
Groceries and Glutes: Supermarkets Add Boutique Gyms and Yoga Classes
Supermarkets are trying to entice shoppers with more than just food. Hy-Vee is teaming up with high-intensity training gym OrangeTheory to build studios attached to two of its stores. In Morristown, New Jersey, ShopRite opened a store with a fitness studio that offers...
Amazon, Nike Top Retail Social Influence Rankings
An e-tail giant and a major athletic/apparel footwear brand are once again the two most socially influential retailers. According to the 2019 Engagement Labs TotalSocial ranking of the top U.S. retailers based on social influence, Amazon/Amazon Prime retains the...
Malls of Tomorrow Will Be Less Big Box, More Lifestyle, and Play Well With E-Commerce Too
Fourteen miles outside of Boston, the ground floor of what was a Sears at Burlington Mall has been stripped down to the steel. Renovations scheduled to finished in summer 2020 will transform the space into a “streetscape” of smaller stores and restaurants facing out...
Big-Box Retail and Shopping Mall Solar: From the Possible to the Probable to the Inevitable
Shopping malls and similar venues present attractive, big-time opportunities as potential sites for grid-connected solar power, energy storage and intelligent, highly energy-efficient facilities management. A growing, international host of big-box retail, shopping...
More People are Going to the Mall to Eat at the Food Court, Not Shop, UBS Says
More and more people are going to the mall to eat at the food court, not to buy clothes, according to a survey from UBS. The investment bank said apparel spending continues to move online, away from bricks-and-mortar stores, with about 25% of total apparel sales in...
The Drug Store Industry Is a “Two-Player Sector”
Cap rates for the single tenant drug store sector increased by a single basis point to 6.22% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2019, according to The Boulder Group. The news in the sector wasn’t all cap rate expansion though. Rates for CVS and Walgreens...
Innovative Grocery Store Concept, Basics Market, Expanding
A format that blends a grocery store with a nutritionally-minded cooking school is adding more locations. Basics Market, which has two stores in Portland, Ore., has opened a location in Tualatin, Ore. A fourth location, in Portland’s Pearl District, is set to open...
Physical Stores Still Vital, Says Colliers Report
Big changes have been sweeping the retail sector in recent years and a new report from Colliers International outlines some of the ways that retailers plan to respond. The short version: Bricks-and-mortar stores remain an essential part of retailing, but will have to...
Chicago’s Retail Market a Mixed Bag in 2019
The retail market in the Chicago region has held steady so far this year, with leasing activity strong in some markets, while spotty in others. In its Fall 2019 Chicago Retail Overview report, Newmark Knight Frank states that among some of the key prevailing trends in...
2019 Retail Giants Report: Retailers Ring Up Innovative Approaches to Engaging Customers
During the first quarter of 2019, vacancies at U.S. shopping centers reached their highest level in eight years. And the nation’s retailers plan to close 5,480 stores by the end of the year, according to Coresight Research. As ecommerce continues to carve out a...
Retailers Launch Holiday Pop-Ups to Test the Market
Holiday pop-up shops have become an important research opportunities for retailers. Internet retail companies are launching pop-up shops during the holiday season as a way to test a new market. These pop-up shops are coming to malls as well as shopping centers. “As...
First Look: The Vitamin Shoppe Debuts Innovation Store Concept
The Vitamin Shoppe is integrating technology with customer-friendly store design. The specialty retailer of nutritional products is opening a new innovation store in Edgewater, N.J. Building off the footprint of the existing Edgewater store, the completely reimagined...
Understanding Self-Storage Occupancy Types and How They Relate to Revenue
As self-storage operators, we’re obsessed with facility occupancy. It’s mentioned everywhere: at every industry convention and meeting, in every trade magazine, with graphs of where it is today compared to historic levels. We worry about occupancy every day and...
From the Rooftops, Big Box Stores are Embracing Solar
Target’s famous bull's-eye is so cosmically linked with the brand that it’s hard to imagine the retail behemoth ever messing with the logo’s red color. But over the past decade — under pressure from customers, shareholders and employees — Target’s retail future is...
3 Questions to Ask Your Construction Partner Before Your Retail Store Buildout
The idea of juggling the many moving parts of a retail store buildout while keeping your budget intact and schedule on track is enough to make any head spin. Finding the right construction partner, however, doesn’t need to be a stressful part of the equation. When...
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