July 4th consumer intentions
Jun 26, 2003, Melody Vargas, About.com Retail Industry
According to the findings of a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey, conducted by BIGresearch, almost one in four consumers plan to shop over the July...
May Sales Growth Leaders: PacSun, Chico's & Walgreen's
Jun 4, 2003
Even Wal-Mart and Kohl's can have a bad month. As retailers report May sales during the next two weeks, the two leaders are expected to fall behind the...
CONVENIENCE, or Low Prices?
Jun 1, 2003, By Beth Mattson-Teig
Consumers, owners and investors have a love/hate relationship with strip centers. Sure, these 30,000- to 150,000-square-foot, grocery-anchored properties...
Live from ICSC: California's ADA Conundrum
May 23, 2003, By Brannon Boswell
Neighborhood center owners in California are wrestling with an increasingly volatile issue-ADA compliance. According to several California developers,...
Live From the Leasing Mall at ICSC's 2003 Spring Convention
May 22, 2003, By Beth Karlin, Editor-in-Chief
Clearly, it was the wrong week for me to resume my Atkins diet. Here we are in Las Vegas, attending the mammoth ICSC Spring convention and, as usual,...
ICSC Exclusive: Marcus & Millichap Research Shows Retail Retains Its Resiliency
May 21, 2003, By Matt Valley
Retail real estate can claim bragging rights. It’s the only commercial real estate property sector to show positive absorption and rent growth over the...
Live from ICSC: Consolidation Spreads to Community Centers
May 20, 2003, By Brannon Boswell
Consolidation is the hot topic at ICSC’s Spring Convention today. Several large companies are missing from the show floor, having been gobbled up by larger...
Live from ICSC: Cool Man, Cool
May 20, 2003, By David Sokol
Retailers and retail real estate professionals looking for money-making new consumer trends should chill. That was the message at a session of the ICSC...
ICSC Exclusive: Think Global, Act Local
May 19, 2003, By Matt Valley
Kickoff session of shopping center convention stresses opportunities —and pitfalls — of expansion beyond U.S....
PLANNED MAKEOVER DELAYED BY KMART
May 1, 2003, Renée DeGross
Kmart was expected to get the green light to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection May 5, but lime green logos aren't necessarily in the retailer's...
Seven-Year Watch
May 1, 2003
It's not just Retail Traffic that's soothsaying the state of the retail business in 2010. At its 2003 Strategic Outlook Conference, consulting firm Retail...
WH SMITH'S BUMPY RIDE
May 1, 2003, Renée DeGross
WH Smith USA Travel Retail, which depends on world-weary travelers for its profits, is struggling. As if code orange wasn't enough, the specter of SARS...
RETAIL FACE OFF: SANDBOX SCUFFLE
May 1, 2003
More than ever, penny-pinching parents are picking up kids clothes at discount stores and mass merchants. That leaves pricier children's specialty apparel...
The Future
May 1, 2003, By Curt Hazlett
It's a beautiful spring Saturday 10 years from now. Shoppers are feeling optimistic after all, the Dow has climbed back over 4,000. America has triumphed...
The Futuristic FIVE
May 1, 2003
When Retail Traffic asked Baltimore-based architecture firm RTKL Associates to imagine the future of the shopping mall, we thought we might get a response...
SARS & Shopping
Apr 30, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Shopkeepers in Manhattan's Chinatown are asking city government to help rejuvenate retail traffic in their neighborhood, as SARS-wary consumers avoid...
Franchise Fracas at GNC
Apr 30, 2003, —staff & wire reports
A lawsuit seeking compensatory and punitive damages was filed today against GNC Franchising, Inc., a subsidiary of General Nutrition Companies, Inc.,...
NEWS: Outlet Centers Thrive in Retail Sales Slump
Apr 1, 2003, Parke Chapman
Despite the slowdown in retail sales at department stores and among specialty chains, business is thriving at outlet centers. Chelsea Property Group and...
NEWS: Rouse's Miami Mall Not Hitting Its Numbers
Apr 1, 2003, Hortense Leon
When the Village of Merrick Park opened last September in Coral Gables, a suburb of Miami, The Rouse Co. had high expectations for the 770,000-square-foot...
War Concerns Cause NRF to Lower 2003 Sales Outlook
Apr 1, 2003, —staff & wire reports
War with Iraq has prompted the National Retail Federation (NRF) to revise its 2003 forecast for GAFS sales (general merchandise stores, apparel stores,...
NEWS: How Retailers Read Consumer Confidence Numbers
Apr 1, 2003, Curt Hazlett and American Demographics staff
These are twitchy times. Consumer confidence reports show that Americans are getting more nervous about their jobs and the economy every month, and one...
SCW FEATURE: Piercing the Gen Y Myths
Apr 1, 2003, By David Sokol
Echo boomers, Gen Y, the Millennial generation. There are as many names for the subset of Americans ages 6 to 25 as there are trends in the hallways of...
Federated to Redevelop Roosevelt Field Anchor Spot
Mar 21, 2003, — staff & wire reports
Federated Department Stores, Inc. plans to redevelop the former Stern's store at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, N.Y., into a Bloomingdale's Furniture...
Retail on the Run
Mar 15, 2003, Beth Karlin
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel...
Retail on the Run
Mar 15, 2003, Beth Karlin
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel...
