Holiday Jewelry Buying Guide Sarah Morgan / SmartMoney Call it the Beyonce effect. In spite of the sluggish economy and the tight job market, more consumers say they’d like someone to put a ring on it this holiday season. Jewelry ranks higher on holiday wish lists than laptops, smartphones, digital cameras or TVs, according to […]

Microsoft takes aim at Apple with store New megamall shop debuts Nov. 6, across the hall from rival Julio Ojeda-Zapata / Pioneer Press The opening of another local retail store for tech shoppers Nov. 6 will have familiar elements: Grinning employees in colorful T-shirts high-fiving their first customers; cheering and chanting in the final seconds […]

A Cure for Ailing Retail Property Shopping centers that open their doors to medical tenants may benefit Jeff Green Some of the most-profitable health-care businesses aren’t in the traditional venues of medical-office buildings and hospital campuses. Rather, they’re found in neighborhood shopping centers, sandwiched between sub shops, clothing stores, dry cleaners and the like. It’s […]

On Track for Success Connie Robbins Gentry / Chain Store Age (Oct. 1) Call it the Phoenix syndrome: Out of the ashes of the Great Recession, dynamic and relevant retail concepts are emerging and expanding. “We’ve had a couple of years to regroup and prepare. Now there is pent-up energy and enthusiasm, so we will […]

Gottschalks’ return now set for spring Tim Sheehan / The Modesto Bee FRESNO — Plans to resurrect the Gottschalks retail brand with a new department-store chain are being pushed back until next spring instead of the Nov. 1 opening promised earlier this year. Veteran retailer Joe Levy, chairman of the new Gottschalk by Joe Levy, […]

Developers, retailers focusing on infill areas Max Jarman / The Arizona Republic The next retail-building push won’t feature new centers sprouting up on the urban fringes. Retailers, developers and lenders, no longer willing to gamble on future population growth, are focusing on infill sites in existing city cores – closer-in locations surrounded by residents with […]