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Home Improvement Refresh: How Retailers Focus on New Store Growth
The last few years of home improvement projects have had home furnishing retailers in the black, primed for brick-and-mortar expansion. A recent survey found that 60% of homeowners plan to slow their...
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2023 Thanksgiving Weekend Shopping Results: Anticipating a 3.1% Holiday...
Over 200 million shoppers engaged in online and in-store transactions over the Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend, a 0.4% uptick compared to 2022. The weekend saw a dual-channel approach, as 134.3...
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Retail Recorded: Episode 25: Neil Saunders, What’s in Store for 2024
In this month’s episode of Retail Recorded, Anjee Solanki and Neil Saunders, Managing Director and Retail Analyst at GlobalData Retail, discuss retail trends with a recap of 2023 and a forecast of...
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ICSC New York 2023 Recap
The Innovating Commerce Serving Communities (ICSC) conference returned to New York this December with the convergence of 7,500 professionals at the Javits Center in Manhattan from the Marketplaces...
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The Most Successful, Trusted Brands Seamlessly Intersect the Online and...
Trust is a critical element in consumer relationships with brands. In our recent Winter 2023 Retail Report: The Future of Retail in 2024 through Store Expansion and Investment Dynamics, we discovered...
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Retail Recorded: Episode 26 | 2023 Retail Highlights with Nicole Larson
In this month’s episode of Retail Recorded, Nicole Larson, National Manager of Retail Research at Colliers, joins host Anjee Solanki for a lively recap of retail highlights for 2023. From the Black...
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Season’s Earnings: A Recap of the 2023 Holiday Sales
A Mastercard report showed U.S. retail sales increased 3.1% between November 1st and December 24th as consumers sought last-minute Christmas deals amid big promotions. The rise in holiday retail sales...
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2024 Retail Outlook
2023 Year-in-Review The retail industry remained in expansion mode, as tenants leased over 250 million square feet of retail space in 2023. Leasing activity followed consumer spending patterns, as...
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Consumer Spending Ends the Year on a Sturdy Note | U.S. Retail Q4 2023
Retail sales ended the year on a solid note, as core retail sales, excluding gasoline, food service, and auto vehicle purchases, increased by 3.3% at the end of 2023. The holiday period saw consumers...
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A Swiftie Super Bowl: Uniting Sports, Music, and Consumer Culture
Super Bowl LVIII is the pinnacle of excitement for the National Football League (NFL). Held annually on the second Sunday of February, this championship event unites the finest teams from the AFC and...
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Robotic Tech Innovations and Their Impact on the Restaurant Industry
Earlier this month, senior leaders gathered at CES in Las Vegas to revel in the latest technologies set to revolutionize the global marketplace. The event’s theme was heavily influenced by artificial...
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Retail Recorded: Episode 27 | The New Face of Urban Offices: How Landlords...
In this month’s episode of Retail Recorded, Anjee Solanki chats with Michael Lirtzman, Colliers’ Head of Office Agency Leasing, on how retail supports office environments. Together, they discuss the...
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The Rise of Retro: Why 90s Style Is Back in Fashion and What It Means for...
This year’s hottest retail brands might strike a familiar chord. Gen-Z’s obsession with the decades before digital has revitalized 90s fashion. For the nostalgia-infused, younger generation discovering...
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Clicks, Bricks, and Clicks: The Transformation of Physical Stores in the...
The retail landscape in 2023, compelled by the stabilization of e-commerce, adapted its physical stores to accommodate changing consumer behaviors. National chains downsized their footprints, falling...
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The Foot Traffic Rebound: A Temporary Blip or a Lasting Trend?
Compared to previous years, 2023 saw a general improvement in foot traffic across multiple sectors, with some industries recovering faster than others. Driven mainly by a return to normalcy...
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And the Award Goes to….Retail! Honoring the Industry’s Oscar-Worthy Impact
The Awards season is here, and who doesn’t love regaling the glitz and glamor of Hollywood’s brightest stars dressed to the nines? And while the silver screen is the season’s star, we’d like to turn...
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Are You Ready to Pay with Your Palm? The Rise of Biometrics in Retail
Biometric systems are making their way into the retail space and are gaining popularity as an authentication method for digital features online and in-store. As retailers enhance the customers’...
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ICSC’s Jazmen Johnson Leads the Charge for DEI Initiatives, Attracting Young...
To close out Women’s History Month, Anjee Solanki interviews Jazmen Johnson, Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, ICSC, to discuss CRE career pathing and how DEI best practices can...
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The Store-in-Store Revolution: Redefining Retail in the Age of Partnerships
The store-in-store concept is a thriving retail strategy that has reached a wider audience and scaled businesses among big box retailers like Target, Walmart, and others. These retail giants are...
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Navigating the Market Dynamics Tightrope | U.S. Retail Q1 2024
The first quarter of 2024 was marked by notable tightness in retail fundamentals, driven by a significant decrease in new space entering the market due to tenant move-outs and a long-term trend of...
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