By the end of January 2004, Toys R Us will shutter all 146 of its freestanding Kids R Us stores and 36 Imaginarium stores. Closure of the stores, which are highly concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions, will put 3 million square feet...
They are beautiful, high-maintenance attention-grabbers and, usually, quite costly. Trophy malls, like trophy wives, are great eye candy. But look beneath the glitz and glamour of a tony mall and you'll find more than just lipstick and silicone...
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens is set to become a retail emporium by early 2005. The sale of the 100,00-square-foot hockey arena to Canadian supermarket chain Loblaw Cos. is expected to close in January, pending city approval...
To many people who live west of the Hudson, New York means one thing: Manhattan. New York shopping is Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, not to mention the countless boutiques on streets throughout the borough...
The takeover battle of the year ended with the Taubman family victorious. But how did shareholders fare? CEO Robert Taubman insists that they won, too, even if analysts criticized the family for putting its interests before its investors in...
On days following Bravo's hit TV show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” men are five times more likely than women to go shopping, according to a Jericho Communications survey. Other findings from the poll of 2,654 shoppers at major malls: The day...
The Northeast couldn't catch a break in 2003. Every few months, a new disaster struck, tossing the region's retail sales trends to the wind. Stores had just finished dressing windows with pre-spring merchandise in February when Winter Storm 2003...
In honor of Sex and the City's final season on the air, designer Simon Doonan and the eccentric elves at Barneys New York have devoted the store's holiday window displays to the HBO television series' redoubtable women. Here, Princess Carrie holds...
