Waiting for the Light
Feb 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Bed Bath & Beyond is determined to press ahead with its expansion plans for 2008, which calls for more than 70 new store openings, including 60 Bed Bath...
Sizing Up Sears' New Strategy
Jan 24, 2008
When Kmart Holding Corp. announced its plans to acquire Sears, Roebuck and Co. in late 2004 to form Sears Holding Corp., there was some speculation at the time that the deal was purely a real estate play...
On and Off the Web
Jan 1, 2008, By Elaine Misonzhnik
Take a look at Sephora's 2007 holiday catalog. On page 47 it urges shoppers to give a box of 10 perfume samples as a gift and the recipient will also...
Double Bill
Dec 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In an effort to offer its Lansing, Mich.-based customers an extended line of products, Midwest department store chain Younkers agreed to house two of...
Heavy Influence
Dec 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
With department stores facing a new round of struggles stemming from lackluster 2007 sales and bleak forecasts for 2008, regional mall owners remain on...
Saluting Sam
Dec 1, 2007
Officials in Kingfisher, Okla. Sam Walton's hometown have erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue saluting the founder of the world's largest retailer....
Pop Go the Toys
Nov 1, 2007
Toys'R'Us is going the pop-up shop route with a temporary store in New York City. What's odd about that is pop-up shops are usually used when retailers...
The Whole of Whole Foods
Nov 1, 2007, By John Egan
Whole Foods Market Inc.'s real estate cart continues to fill up. In August, the country's largest grocer of natural and organic foods finally closed on...
Holding Back on Luxe
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared...
Wal-Mart Owns Manhattan
Nov 1, 2007
OK. Not really. But a recent study of Wal-Mart's space shows that all the real estate in Wal-Mart's stores added together would equal the size of Manhattan....
