Net Connection
Sep 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In a bid to provide a more convenient shopping experience for its customers (and lift its sagging sales), electronics retailer Circuit City Stores, Inc....
Fostering New Concepts
Aug 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
As one retailer after another seems to fall in the private equity buyout wave that has swept through the industry the past three years, one former big...
New Venture Capital Fund Targets Niche Retail
Jul 11, 2007
As one retailer after another seems to fall in the private equity buyout wave that has swept through the industry the past three years, one former big box executive has lined up $300 million in venture capital funds to foster the growth of a slew of new chains....
Locked And Loaded
Jun 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Cashmere for toddlers, handmade lotions and soaps from an agricultural cooperative in northern Israel and tuxedos for Gen-Y males are just a few of the new products retailers are designing new concepts around....
EXPERT Q&A: Setting Up Shop
Jun 1, 2007, Michael Tesler
Retail Traffic: How does today rate as a time for developing new concepts? Is there demand for new retail? Tesler: It's very dangerous to answer a question that broad. If you've got all your stuff together, if you have the right concept at the right time in the right place with the right customer, it is a good time....
Room To Grow
May 1, 2007
If it had to, Target Corp. could parallel park a store in Manhattan. The discount retailer has an affinity for shoehorning its stores into some tight places in urban markets. ...
Dinner and a Movie
May 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The old conception of a night at the movies has died. Digital downloads, video on demand and DVD rent-by-mail combined with increasingly theater-like home-entertainment setups are leading more customers to think twice before plopping down $10 for tickets...
The Luxury Effect
May 1, 2007, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Out of nowhere in the summer of 2002, you couldn't walk down the street in both cities and suburbs without tripping over a young mother pushing her baby in a luxurious $800 Dutch-manufactured Bugaboo stroller festooned with fancy accessories...
Wal-Mart: Still Growing After All These Years
May 1, 2007, By Meg Richards
When Wal-Mart sneezes, the whole world gets wet. Sluggish sales growth at the retail giant's domestic stores has fueled questions about everything from its merchandising mix to its expansion strategy...
Too Big for a Box
Feb 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
During the holiday season the ads were inescapable and the content a bit befuddling. There was Staples, not just hawking its office wares, but imploring people to come in for all their holiday shopping needs, including digital cameras, televisions and other products that would be hard to classify as office supplies...
