Retail News

Major players across the grocery industry have accelerated their investments in delivery and pickup options, as well as loyalty programs, in the year since Amazon unveiled its acquisition of Whole Foods Market... (WSJ 6/10)

Report: Casual trends drive luxury sales among young consumers
Trends toward more casual luxury are driving high-end sales growth among millennials and Gen Z around the globe, according to a report from Bain & Co. Instagram and other social media channels are also helping propel growth for luxury brands... CNBC/The Associated Press (6/7)

With Strong Sales, Nordstrom Charges Ahead In Multichannel Fall Campaign

Nordstrom is celebrating its strong second-quarter performance with a fall campaign that includes digital video, social, print and out-of-home ads... (MediaPost Communications 8/11)

New owner would split Staples into three divisions

Office-supply seller to be divided into U.S. retail, Canadian retail and corporate-supply units... (WSJ 6/29)

Danone North America is Latest Business to Embrace a Downtown Westchester HQ

The global company will house 400 US employees at its new downtown White Plains office... (Westchester Magazine 2/10)

Amazon To Open First Manhattan Bookstore

The 4,000-square-foot store will open this spring in the Shops at Columbus Circle... (WSJ 1/4)

Eighty-six percent of millennials use mobile while shopping in-store

The study also found that 96% of millennials made purchases at stores where they used their mobile devices...

(MobileCommerceDaily.com 1/4)

Sporting Giants Nike and Adidas Are Pushing The Future of Retail

Nike and Adidas both opened new New York City stores this fall that are designed to immerse shoppers in the experience and give them a reason to return... (Fortune 12/14)

Clicks to Bricks: Online Retailers Find The Lure of a Store

An age of online shopping has, surprisingly, led to an exciting time for shoppers to get back out onto city streets to explore new, innovative shops... (The New York Times 11/10)

Simon Invests In Merging of Online & Physical Retail
Simon Property Group's venture capital unit is investing in technology that brings together online shopping and brick-and-mortar stores... (Internet Retailer 10/13)

Amazon to Create Quick-Stop Food Stores

Amazon will reach further into the grocery sector with convenience stores selling fresh produce, milk and other perishables to AmazonFresh subscribers, sources told The Wall Street Journal... (WSJ 10/12)

Warby Parker & Bonobos: Two of the largest e-commerce-driven retail brands in the U.S. have big plans for physical stores

Expansion of online brands into physical locations comes at a time when foot traffic to many traditional retailers is declining... (WSJ 10/6)

Sports Authority Westchester Locations To Close

Yonkers & Elmsford Sports Authority stores to close. Shopping habits are evolving... (loud 5/3)

Pret a Manger expanding in New York City and throughout US

Pret a Manger is growing in New York City, where consumers are opting for healthier food options. The chain will expand their US locations this year, making it the busiest market outside Britain... (The Guardian 4/23)

Products and Competition Stretch Market for ‘Athleisure’ Clothing

So-called athleisure clothing, casual attire meant to be worn both for exercising and for pretty much anything else, has become a nearly $100 billion market, though the market could soon be oversaturated... (NYT 3/25)

When $1 can be much more: The dollar-store divide

As an overall industry, dollar stores have been ratcheting up growth in both sales and square footage for the past several years... (CNBC 3/21)

Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores

Online retail giant considers opening up to 400 bookstores, expanding Seattle experiment... (WSJ 2/2)

GameStop Prepares For Digital Future

"We're no RadioShack" Says

GameStop. Positive looking for GamesStops brick-and-mortar business... (Bloomberg 12/30)

Retailers Must Combine Value & Entertainment in 2016

Shopping Center Investors & Retailers Focus On Attracting More Consumer Spending in the new year... (CoStar Group 12/29)

In Tuxedo, N.Y., Breaking Ground on a Decades-Long Project

After almost three decades of fierce community debate, work on a large residential and commercial development called Tuxedo Farms is now underway and anticipated to almost double the size of this small town of about 3,600 residents over the next 10 to 12 years... (New York Times 10/6)

Macy's creates department just for millennials

A new floor, called "One Below," at Macy's New York City flagship offers a hint at what is to come in retail stores around the country... (Business Insider 10/3)

Target to Become Biggest Retailer to Offer Apple Watch in Stores

Target Corp. will become the biggest retailer to offer the Apple Watch, throwing support behind a device that’s fighting for mainstream acceptance this holiday season. The Apple Inc. product will debut in some Target stores this week, before reaching all of its locations by Oct. 25, the Minneapolis-based retailer said on Friday... (Bloomberg 10/2)

Wal-Mart US chief makes progress on store improvements

Wal-Mart US CEO Greg Foran set an ambitious timetable for making the company's 4,600 US stores easier to shop, and embarked on a schedule of surprise visits to find problems and fix them... (Bloomberg 10/2)

Commercial real estate industry makes sustainability gains
The global commercial real estate industry over the past year reduced greenhouse gas emissions 3%, energy consumption 2.9% and water use 1.7%, according to the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark 2015 Survey... (REIT.com 9/3)

Can a Google Maps for indoors save shopping malls?

The indoor positioning system IndoorAtlas is working on making a mark in the tough arena of retailing and indoor navigation, which are converging as retailers experiment with technologies to combat online shopping and “show-rooming.”... (MarketWatch 9/1)

What comes after the barcode?
Days numbered for barcodes as shoppers demand more data

Growing demand for more information about the products we buy could mean the end of the simple barcode - the blocks of black and white stripes that adorn most objects for sale and are scanned five billion times a day...(Reuters 8/28)

5 real estate projects to keep an eye on this fall in the Lower Hudson Valley

Several long-dormant projects have come back to life in recent months, with new ones making their way through various municipal boards in Westchester and Rockland counties. Here are five projects to keep an eye on this fall. (lohud 8/27)

Brick-and-mortar favored heavily by back-to-school shoppers, survey finds
Brick-and-mortar retailers are big winners this year as the back-to-school season approaches, with a large number of shoppers saying they will do none of their shopping online, according to a JLL survey. One-third of these respondents said they do not plan to shop for back-to-school apparel online, the survey shows, while 44.5 percent said they would not buy school supplies that way... (SCT 8/10)

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