Coming into the holiday shopping season, there has been a lot of talk about consumers utilizing their smartphones and mobile apps for shopping. I think this is a fascinating area with a lot of potential, but for now the number of shoppers actually using their smartphones to make purchases is unimpressive. In my latest Retail […]
Archives for 2012
Phillips Edison–ARC REIT Buys 157 KSF Grocery-Anchored Center in Metro Cleveland
Phillips Edison-ARC REIT Buys 157 KSF Grocery-Anchored Center in Metro Cleveland Scott Baltic/Commercial Property Executive Phillips Edison–ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc., of Cincinnati, has acquired Brook Park Plaza, a 157,000-square-foot shopping center anchored by a Giant Eagle grocery store in Brook Park, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, the REIT announced late last week. Other tenants […]
Microsoft taking a small bite out of Apple stores
Microsoft taking a small bite out of Apple stores Julio Ojeda-Zapata/St. Paul Pioneer Press Looking to modernize the Richfield grade school where she works, and flush with a cash for a major technology purchase, Tonicia Abdur-Salaam went in search of classroom computers at the Mall of America not long ago. First she stopped in the […]
Retailers get jump on season
Retailers get jump on season Justine Griffin/Sarasota Herald-Tribune Don’t get spooked, but Christmas trees, holiday music and popular toys are already starting to creep into area stores — before Halloween is even a memory. Despite, or perhaps because of, strong holiday sales in 2011 — consumers spent $563 billion, the most since 1999 — retailers […]
Special Deliveries
Walmart recently unveiled their new “Walmart To Go” service offering customers same-day delivery of online orders for just $10. In this edition of Retail Rap, I discuss some of the positives and negatives I see to this new service and offer some ideas on how it could impact brick-and-mortar retail shopping in the future. If […]
Target starts holiday ads well before Halloween
Target starts holiday ads well before Halloween Sandra Guy/Chicago Sun-Times With Target Corp. rolling out its earliest-ever TV holiday ad, is Santa Claus already on his way? The Minneapolis-based retailer, known for cheap-chic goods and an iconic bull’s eye and dog mascot, aired its first holiday ad Monday — which Advertising Age reported was three […]
