Events

Dollar General in hiring push
Dollar General announced a major hiring initiative to support its continued expansion. The discounter said that within the next month it intends to hire 10,000 new employees to support planned store openings and fill current vacancies. The chain will hold approximately 600 localized hiring events through September. It is looking to hire both full-time and part-time positions, including store managers, assistant store managers, lead sales associates and store associates.
Shoppers keep spending in check in August
Retail sales fell more than expected in August after a strong June and a relatively flat July. The National Retail Federation said that retail sales, excluding automobiles, gasoline stations and restaurants, were down 0.3% over July. On a year-over-year basis, however, NRF calculates that retail sales increased 4.1%. The slowdown in August was broad-based and, notably, there was a drop-off in non-store sales, NRF noted. Clothing sales increased 0.7% in August, driven by back-to-school shopping.

CSA to select ‘Top Redevelopers’ for 12th-annual listing

Chain Store Age magazine is accepting nominations for its 12th annual “Top Redevelopers” listing, which recognizes shopping center owners and developers’ retail redevelopment efforts over the last 12 months. Selections will be based on square footage redeveloped between June 30, 2015 and June 30, 2016, financial investment, and project significance.
Hotel construction begins at One Daytona

Construction has started on the first hotel at One Daytona, the $120 million-plus project going up next to the Daytona International Speedway in Florida. The 105-room Fairfield Inn & Suites being erected by Shaner Hotel Group is a short walk from the track. It will be joined by a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel to be called The Daytona.
Report: Nasty Gal on hunt for a buyer

Apparel retailer Nasty Girl, one of the hottest apparel merchants on the Internet just a few years back, is looking for a possible buyer, Women’s Wear Daily reported.
New Lululemon store is a one-of-a-kind for retailer

Lululemon has opened a new concept store in Toronto that’s unlike anything the retailer has done to date. The 10,000-sq.-ft. store is part retail, part health food café, part gallery — and part practice studio, according to a report by torontolife.com. It even boasts a trailer. For more, and photos, click here.
Webinar: How to control energy costs in retail

Retailers can learn how to develop a strategic process for reducing one of their major facility operating expenses — energy — at Chain Store Age’s upcoming webinar, Understanding and Controlling Energy Costs in Retail.
Famed New York retailer—and felon—dies

The man who founded the Crazy Eddie consumer electronics chain has died at the age of 68. Eddie Antar grew his company from one location in Brooklyn, New York, to the largest electronics retailer in the New York metro area in the 1980s, with 43 stores in four states. The chain gained national fame for its television commercials which featured a maniacal-looking pitchman (which many people mistakenly took to be Antar) screaming at the end of the spot that Crazy Eddie’s prices were “insane.”
Critics: ‘X-Men’ erred in leaving out mall scene

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Report: Mall traffic up with teens

Teens are returning to one of their former favorite destinations.

According to a survey by Willian Blair of teens and young adults, teens are visiting malls more in 2016 than they were in 2015, benzinga reported.

Dollar General in hiring push

Shoppers keep spending in check in August

CSA to select ‘Top Redevelopers’ for 12th-annual listing

Hotel construction begins at One Daytona

Report: Nasty Gal on hunt for a buyer

New Lululemon store is a one-of-a-kind for retailer

Webinar: How to control energy costs in retail

Famed New York retailer—and felon—dies

Critics: ‘X-Men’ erred in leaving out mall scene

Report: Mall traffic up with teens