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Behavioral Shift in Consumers’ Grocery Habits Online and In-store
Everything we know about grocery shopping has changed. The pandemic, recent news events, and inflation have impacted consumer shopping behaviors. Grocery stores had nearly cracked the code on consumer...
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2022 Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Shopping Results
American consumers got their holiday shopping off to a strong start. The National Retail Federation recently released its Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Consumer Survey, which found that 196.7 million...
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Quick Hits | Q3 RCA Update
Highlights Transaction volume remains strong compared to history, but the market has cooled. This is not a surprise, as higher borrowing costs and multiple headwinds are making deals harder to...
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Nordic Markets Retail Reflections
Last week, while participating as a guest speaker at Bonnier’s Retail Arena Conference in Helsinki, I had the opportunity to experience Finnish innovation first-hand with the Colliers Helsinki team. At...
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Quick Hits | October RCA Update
OfficeOffice sales volume continues to face pressure. October’s volume of $4.2 billion is reminiscent of pandemic-level activity. CBD markets are facing the most significant challenges, with monthly...
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Self-Checkout Tech Time-Saver or Time-Waster?
Amazon Go paved the way for retailers like CVS, Wegman’s, and Walmart to add self-checkout in-store as an added convenience. The machines are a hybrid of traditional and contactless checkout points,...
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ICSC New York 2022 Recap
The Innovating Commerce Serving Communities (ICSC) conference returned to New York after a two-year hiatus with over 7,000 retailers, brokers, and landlords in attendance at the Javits Center in...
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Retail: Recorded, Episode 19 | Industrial and Retail: The Supply Chain That...
In our next episode of Retail Recorded, Anjee Solanki speaks with Stephanie Rodriguez, National Director of Industrial Services for the U.S. and seasoned industry expert. Together they touch upon the...
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Santa Taps Google for Must-Have Retail this season: Video Games, Sportswear...
According to Adobe, the 2022 holiday spending season kicked off with retailers raking in a record high of $9 billion in online revenue, up 2.3% year-over-year. Analysts anticipate last-mile retail...
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Quick Hits | November RCA Update
OfficeOffice volume is facing strong headwinds, with year-to-date volume down 12%, the most significant decline of all asset classes. Monthly volume was off 64% in November compared to last year....
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Independent Grocers, National Retailers to Follow Suit
More consumers visit multiple retailers, seeking promotions in search of the best prices, as inflation and high input cost significantly increase food prices at larger supermarkets. With a growth in...
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2023 Retail Outlook
2022 Year-in-Review The retail industry remained in expansion mode in 2022 as consumers and retailers remained resilient despite concerns over inflation, interest rates, and a potential recession....
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American Confidence Rebounds to End 2022 | U.S. Retail Q4 2022
U.S. consumer confidence rebounded in December despite growing anxiety over a recession and the combination of high inflation and rising interest rates that have made credit cards and mortgages more...
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Eggs Become the New Toilet Paper as Environmental Stressors Impact the U.S.
The global pandemic created various unexpected problems as supply chain issues impacted the availability of consumers’ well-loved products. Although consumers’ current grocery basket spending is higher...
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Retail: The True Champion of Super Bowl Sunday
Super Bowl LVII is the highly anticipated championship game of the National Football League (NFL) season. Taking place each year on the second Sunday in February, this annual event brings together the...
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Is the Modern Fashion Renaissance a Dress-up Culture?
Fashion serves as a form of self-expression, a way for people to communicate who they are and what they stand for to the world around them. Realistically speaking, working from home accelerated the...
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Retail: Recorded, Episode 20 | Have you heard of RETAILBOSS®?
In our next episode of Retail Recorded, Anjee Solanki speaks with Jeanel Alvarado, Founder and Editor of RETAILBOSS®, a recognized media publication that covers retail news across North America and...
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How the Digitization of Retail Will Find Your Perfect Fit
The fitting room experience has always been a rite of passage for many, a tradition the pandemic all but eliminated with its contactless shopping options and free-for-all return policies. And that is...
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Changemakers Reverse Engineer Retail From the Ground Up
Costco, one of America’s well-loved brands, has quietly made a play for ground-floor retail in mixed-use spaces nationwide. The retailer previously partnered with a developer in Cincinnati to anchor a...
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Retail: Recorded, Episode 21 | How Economics Play into Commercial Real Estate
In our next episode of Retail Recorded, Anjee Solanki speaks with KC Conway, a leading industry expert in commercial real estate (CRE) and the Chief Economist for CCIM Institute and Principal...
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