RETAIL FACE OFF: Drug Wars
Aug 1, 2003
Insurance providers are cutting prescription drug benefits, triggering a slowdown in retail pharmacy sales. So chains have to boost front-end sales of...
Milk, Bread, EggsShoes?
Aug 1, 2003
Payless is opening its first store-within-a-store, called Payless ShoeSource Express, inside an HEB supermarket in Laredo, Texas. The 700-square-foot...
Quick Change
Aug 1, 2003
Toasted-sub franchiser Quiznos is spending its own dough this year to pull a fast one on its customers. The Denver-based quick-service chain is rolling...
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...
Bauer Bows Out Of the Heat
Apr 30, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Yesterday, the Spiegel Group announced plans to close 13 percent of its Eddie Bauer stores as part of the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring efforts....
PacSun to Open 75 New Stores
Mar 5, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty apparel chain Pacific Sunwear announced plans to increase its store base by 75 units in 2003, including at least...
PacSun to Open 75 New Stores
Mar 5, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty apparel chain Pacific Sunwear announced plans to increase its store base by 75 units in 2003, including at least...
NEWS: Mail Boxes Etc. Goes Brown
Mar 1, 2003, Brannon Boswell
Express package giant UPS is encouraging its 3,300 Mail Boxes Etc. franchisees to convert to a new format The UPS Store. UPS acquired the franchise-driven...
Angling for Osceola
Jan 16, 2003, — David Sokol
After eight years of promises, postponements and disappointment, Florida’s Osceola County is finally getting its convention center. On January 12, Austin-based...
Galyan's Courts Mall-phobic Males at Lifestyle Centers
Jan 1, 2003, Brannon Boswell
Do real men shop at lifetyle centers? Galyan's Trading Company Inc. thinks they do. In fact, the Plainfield, Ind.-based sporting goods chain is beefing...
