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Today In DataDriving Innovation In Digital Commerce, Gig Retailing And Mall Redevelopment
The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course...
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RetailMalls Debate Turns To Community Planning
The death knell for malls tolled loudly in the media during the Fourth of July weekend as retailers continue to assess their...
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RetailSimon And Brookfield Eye Deal For Struggling JCPenney
Two of the largest mall owners in the United States are teaming up on a bid to buy one of their key...
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RetailCredit Issues Stalk Malls And Anchor Tenants
With malls reopening in most states over the weekend an early reckoning with pandemic reality among mall owners and anchor tenants is...
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Real EstateBrookfield Delays Payments While Asking Tenants To Pay Up
Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has...
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RetailFacebook Eyes Leasing Neiman Marcus Store In Manhattan
Facebook could be looking to take over Neiman Marcus‘ space at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, according to an unnamed source in a...
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RetailRetail Development Exec Says Malls Can Be Reborn Without Stores
At least one executive is not ready to give up on malls. Jeff Blau, CEO of New York-based global real estate and...
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RetailRetail Reopening Hinges On Dangerous Discounts
Revenge shopping will not be a factor in the U.S. retail reopening. With all 50 states now in some phase of loosening...
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RetailMalls See Increase in Foot Traffic, But Less Time Spent In Store
The owner/operator of 85 shopping centers in California, Colorado and Illinois said shoppers are returning to recently reopened malls, but they’re not...
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RetailRetailing 2020: Five Things To Watch
The pandemic was unprecedented when it showed up in February and March; the phases of its aftermath will also be without a...
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RetailMalls Could Become Automated Warehouses For Supermarkets
As strip mall owners adjust for the impact of COVID-19, a global research and analysis company recommends landlords should consider building automated...
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NewsAP Automation, Subscriptions, PPP Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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InternationalDoes Less Traffic At China’s Mall Eateries Mean There’s Less Appetite For Retail?
To get a sense of how China is re-opening, and where there are bumps in the road, look to the malls. And...
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RetailSimon Eyes Opening Half Of Its Malls This Week
Simon Property Group, the biggest mall retailer in the U.S., said it plans to have around half of its locations open within...
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RetailReinventing The Mall: How Misperceptions Might Hinder Recovery
They’re reopening – but they’re dead. Or they’re fading. Or they’re awaiting a renaissance. The characterization of the future of the American...
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RetailLimited Retail Reopenings Draw Curiosity, But Not Spending
The great retail resettling is on. This past weekend and today (May 4) are the first tests of consumer behavior during the...
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RetailHalf Of Mall Department Stores Expected To Close By Next Year
Long before the coronavirus struck, brick-and-mortar stores faced extinction by a combination of eCommerce and bankruptcies. More than 9,300 brick-and-mortar stores closed...
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RetailSimon Said To Reopen 49 Malls In May
The nation’s biggest mall owner is set to reopen more than four dozen shopping centers next month. CNBC obtained an internal memo from...
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RetailReinventing Retail Will Mean Embracing New Formats
Reinventing retail in the wake of COVID-19 may mean reinventing retail formats. As the discussion turns to reopening, non-essential locations — malls...
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Today In DataRetail Reopenings And Redirection Amid The Coronavirus
The business and consumer timelines for reopening retail don’t quite match up, which could be devastating news for malls. Several conditions beyond government permission...
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RetailRetail Reopening: Business And Consumer Timelines Do Not Match
As talk turns to reopening retail it’s becoming painfully clear that the business timeline and the consumer timeline don’t match. And that...
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RetailRelated’s CEO Predicts People Will Go Back To Offices Before Malls
In a world after the coronavirus, consumers will have return to work before they go back to the mall per the owner...
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RetailCould Experiential Offerings Save The Shopping Mall?
Mall owners are starting to feel the COVID-19 pinch. Taubman is sticking tight to its rent guidelines. Simon Property Group has cut...
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RetailCoronavirus Triggers Furloughs For Over 1K Workers At Simon-Owned Malls
As social distancing and stay-at-home orders continue due to the escalating COVID-19 pandemic, Simon Property Group has furloughed about 30 percent of...
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Today In DataThe Impact Of The Coronavirus On US Shopping Malls
Mall owners are closing shopping centers amid the coronavirus outbreak, and a trade group that represents them reports that closures are putting a strain...
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RetailCOVID Retail Update: Mall Group Asks For Bailout
For most retailers, this virus thing is starting to hurt. In fact, the current situation now has a nickname, courtesy of analysts...
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CoronavirusMalls, Restaurants Request Aid As Coronavirus Forces Closures
In an unparalleled attempt to contain the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of stores and other businesses are closing their doors to customers, according...
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RetailLocal Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies
It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. Right downtown, 10,000 square...
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RetailAmerican Dream Megamall Announces First Shops To Open In Spring
The American Dream megamall in New Jersey is preparing to open a round of retail stores after nearly two decades in waiting....
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RetailFifth Wall Invites eComm Pure Plays To The Mall
Mall landlords strike again. In a good way, of course, as alt-VC firm Fifth Wall closes on a $100 million fund to...
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RetailHow Retailers Are Bundling Up With Experiential Concepts
Usually earnings reports are fairly predictable and boring affairs. Revenue, expenses, competitive threats and then the reason to be optimistic. Outerwear firm...
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RetailMacy’s Dropped To Junk-Bond Status
Macy’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk by S&P Global Ratings, just weeks after the former department store juggernaut released a...
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Today In DataReinventing Shopping And Agriculture With Innovation
Developers, among others, are working on reinventing the mall, which is still a compelling retail venue. And payment flexibility could be one of...
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RetailWhy Innovation Could Be The Call Of The Mall
You don’t get to be Simon Property Group with $2 billion in income during a bad year without being crafty about retail....
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Simon, Taubman Join Forces To Save The Mall
As retail owners face the challenge of decreased foot traffic and store closures brought on by the rise of eCommerce, mall owners...
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RetailMacy’s Woes Add To Tough Week For Malls
It’s been a tough week for malls. First, mall tenant Forever 21 was bought out by its landlords. Then, Sephora launched one...
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RetailBeauty And The Street: Sephora Bets Heavy On Non-Mall Locations
If brick-and-mortar retail is struggling, Sephora didn’t get that email. But that email about malls? Received and duly noted. Sephora announced Tuesday...
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RetailForever 21 And The Future Of The Mall
Imagine that you owed your bank or landlord a lot of money. Now imagine that said bank or landlord decided to buy...
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Delivery‘Ghost Kitchens’ Set Up Shop In Malls
Property builders are constructing kitchens in empty malls to help fill food-delivery orders, a new strategy to service the flourishing business segment...
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RetailVirtual Gaming Grows Into A Force For Tourism And Even Atlantic City
With every passing year, it becomes harder and harder to talk about, or even think about, the global digital and mobile ecosystem...
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RetailAbercrombie & Fitch To Slash Store Sizes
Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is shrinking its footprint as it makes plans to exit top malls and shopping centers, Bloomberg reported on...
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Sizzle/FizzleThe Looming Long Fizzle Of Cyberattacks
The new year is still new, and those on the front lines battling cybercrimes and the hackers who work from the shadows...
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RetailCan Sports And Entertainment Really Spark Mall Revivals?
Long live physical retail. That’s the thought one gets when reading news via Bloomberg, which reported “when shoppers visit the long-awaited American...
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RetailReinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age
That Amazon is a widely lionized yet simultaneously imitated force in retail is not surprising. Ever since Amazon introduced a one-click checkout,...
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RetailPremium Malls Strained By Online Competitors
Top-tier malls in the country, once thought to be impervious to the changing retail landscape, have been struggling lately, according to a...
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Sizzle/FizzleBetting On A Big Mall Fizzle
The holidays are approaching. The money that comes into retailers’ coffers at brick-and-mortar locations will filter up to pay the landlord; the...
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RetailNJ Malls Contend With American Dream’s Opening
After serving as destinations for Big Apple shoppers for at least 50 years, northern New Jersey’s malls are aiming to find ways...
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RetailRetail Malls Look For New Innovations, Commerce And Otherwise
What to do with retail malls? How about making them into doctors’ offices? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents...
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Sizzle/FizzleSizzle Or Fizzle As Mall Landlord Eyes Investing In Tenants?
Simon to the rescue? To save the malls, and the retailers in the malls, look to the mall owner. Maybe. News came...
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RetailThe Void: Can Virtual Reality Save Malls?
Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the...
