Pop-Up Stores Fill Retail Space As Vacancies Hit Decade Highs Pop-up stores are sprouting like mushrooms as the holiday shopping season approaches. And just as mushrooms feed off dead plants, pop-up stores arise from the vacant locations of dead retailers. Pop-up stores are temporary stores that remain open for several months or less, usually during […]

How Rocketing Gold Prices Will Hit Holiday Shopping If jewelry is on your holiday shopping list, consider this: Rising gold prices will soon make rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings much more expensive. December gold futures prices hit a record high of $1,118.60 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange on […]

Retailers work to avoid a frosty holiday season What retailers want most from Santa is a sleigh full of consumer confidence in time for the holiday season. They probably won’t get it. While the forecast for retailers has improved from last holiday season, “consumers are still not 100 percent convinced that they should be shelling […]

Retailers snap up vacant Fresno-area spaces Despite the recession, several new retailers are headed for Fresno shopping centers. Area malls are attracting a variety of businesses — from a MAC cosmetics store to independently owned novelty shop Kwirkworld — to fill spaces left empty in the worst business downturn in decades. It’s a sign that […]