The restaurant industry is going through some significant upheaval as demographic cultural trends have moved the target for consumer’s tastes. The last several years have seen an explosion of new restaurant concepts and categories reflecting these shifting preferences. Whether it’s the advent of fast-casual restaurants, the ongoing challenges of established chains such as Olive Garden […]
Archives for 2014
Lululemon hopes to bounce back in Bethlehem
Nicole Radzievich / The Morning Call – Reeling from recall of see-through pants, Lululemon to open showroom in the city.
Active women understand the value of a good sports bra, one that can endure a decade of exercise, sweat and machine washings.
Melissa Maioriello Waldron, a 29-year-old volleyball coach from Bethlehem, still has two durable bras she bought in college — one pink and the other turquoise — purchased on clearance at $30 a pop from Lululemon Athletica Inc. in New York City.
Major expansion set for Baybrook Mall
David Kaplan / Houston Chronicle – Baybrook Mall, already among the Houston area’s most profitable per square foot, will become one of its physically largest as well, through a major expansion announced Monday that will give it about the same footprint as west Houston’s Memorial City Mall. It would be surpassed in size only by the Galleria, a bona fide tourist destination that is known internationally.
Do consumers really want honest pricing?
Quentin Fottrell / MarketWatch – Experience of StubHub and J.C. Penney suggests people like price tricks. Maybe consumers can’t handle the truth. We say we don’t want to be tricked by price-tag gimmicks and hidden fees, but companies find that when they’re up front and honest, they lose customers. Three months after StubHub began including […]
Hip Check
The influence of Millennial shoppers is hardly a new topic, but as I recently learned at the 2014 SPECS conference, Millennials are certainly a force to be reckoned with. Within six years, Millennials will represent 1/3 of all retail spending, making it imperative that retailers find ways to engage this group. But so far, from […]
New businesses run leaner as job growth fails to bounce back
Amy Martinez / The Seattle Times – On the eighth floor of a 1930s downtown building that once housed many employees of Pacific Northwest Bell, dozens of fledgling technology companies at a startup incubator represent a new approach to hiring. Most have only one or two full-time employees and use part timers as needed. Cloud […]
