“Pop-up,” or temporary stores, are there to just generate market buzz for a new product or a new line, right? Well, Kevin Appelbaum, managing partner for consulting firm Hawk Hill Advisors believes they have another, equally valuable, use...
Is the traditional video store dead? According to Stephane de Laforcade, co-founder of MoviebankUSA, it soon will be. And the beginning of the end was last month at the grand opening of MoviebankUSA's first video lending machine store in New York...
It was a rainy Saturday in Hilton Head, S.C., and traffic on U.S. 278 was backed up for miles. Finally, I saw the sign for Tanger Factory Outlet Center No. 1, and turned into the lot, parking right in front of the Coach store. Convenient...
Time was when the lighting of an enclosed shopping mall was relegated to electrical engineers. They saw their responsibility as powering up the wattage and housing the lamps in utilitarian-looking fixtures. The light level was typically constant...
It seems everywhere you turn these days there is a merger or acquisition happening — from department stores to large mall owners and now even video game retailers...
Hungary is considering letting prostitutes solicit business at select shopping malls, according to Reuters. The country already allows local governments to establish “zones of patience” for its 2,000 or so women of the night. To date, no...
On an unusually cold spring evening, chilled customers queued up on New York's 42nd Street to pay $5 or more for a Cold Stone Creamery ice cream confection. Business is sweet for the $285 million — up from $45 million in 2001 — premium ice cream...
The bookstore chain's new outlet in Malaysia isn't Borders' first foreign location, but it is its biggest. The 60,000-square-foot store at Kuala Lumpur's Berjaya Times Square mall carries more than 200,000 books, movies and music titles...