Suzette Parmley/The Philadelphia Inquirer – What do you have when you mix tons of kids and 50,000 Lego pieces outside a mall? A groundbreaking for a new attraction designed to generate traffic at a time when the American mall is reinventing itself as a shopping andentertainment venue. That was the scene at Plymouth Meeting Mall on Tuesday […]
Archives for October 2016
Expired food and baby formula remained on Walmart shelves in low-income areas even after publicity
Justine Griffin/Tampa Bay Times – Shoppers in St. Petersburg took to Facebook to express their outrage over finding expired baby formula and other goods at a local Walmart three weeks ago. The post quickly went viral. The Tampa Bay Times wrote a front page story about it and a local television station covered it. At the time, […]
Turkey or sales? How will Lehigh Valley stores handle Thanksgiving?
John Harris/The Morning Call – To close or not to close? That is the question for retailers this Thanksgiving. Over the last couple of years, it wasn’t much of a dilemma at all. Retailers started their Black Friday sales earlier and introduced us to a new shopping holiday that quickly became known as Gray Thursday. After all, brick-and-mortar […]
