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  • Beauty retailer opens milestone store

    Marla and Barry Beck, Founders of Bluemercury, open 100th store (Photo: Business Wire)   Bluemercury is testing a larger format space.    The specialty beauty products and spa retailer announced the opening of its 100th store, in Savannah, Georgia.     

  • Study: Book retailer shows brand strength

    A familiar chain has been named the most powerful retail brand of 2016.   According to the 2016 Top 100 Most Powerful Brands report from brand marketing firm Tenet Partners, Barnes & Nobile is the most powerful retail brand, and 32nd most powerful brand overall, of the year. This is the second straight year Barnes & Noble ranked highest among retailers.  

  • First Look: Sonos brings the music home in retail debut

    Sonos, known for its “smart” sound systems, has made its bricks-and-mortar debut with an interactive store that celebrates music.     The store, in the SoHo section of Manhattan, is designed to allow visitors to listen to music — and experience Sonos products — the way they would at home. It also offers "Simple Set Up," a white-glove, in-home service that includes local delivery, set-up, and product introductions for in-store purchases.   

  • Survey: Back-to-school shoppers will spend more, but wisely

    Parents making back-to-school purchases are willing to open their wallets, if the price is right.   That’s according to a new study from digital savings platform RetailMeNot Inc., "Back-to-School Cheat Sheet: Consumer Trends and Insights for Retailers," back-to-school shoppers plan to spend an average of $273 per child, up from their anticipated spending of $246 in 2015.  

  • RKF declares Manhattan’s ‘96th Street divide’ defunct

    Having brokered the sale of street-front retail real estate on 101st Street and Third Avenue in New York for $2.2 million, RKF declared the unofficial rule of placing prime retail locations below 96th Street in Manhattan to be null and void.  

  • Michaels membership has its privileges

    Specialty arts and crafts retailer The Michaels Companies Inc. knows that customer loyalty is not its own reward.  

  • POPAI, A.R.E. rebrand under new name

    A coordinated rebranding effort has resulted in a new name for retail associations POPAI and A.R.E, which merged last October.   The new, combined group has changed its name to Shop!, a trade association focused on enhancing retail environments and experiences. The name is designed to represent the 2,000-plus global member companies and align with the full industry community they support.  

  • Study: Targeting Hispanics worthwhile for grocery retailers

    Hispanic shoppers enjoy grocery shopping significantly more than the average U.S. consumer, in part, because they consider the experience a social endeavor, according to a new study from Acosta Sales & Marketing and Univision, “The Why? Behind the Buy U.S. Hispanic Shopper Study.”  

  • Walmart shows shoppers a good time

    Long dependent on low prices to draw customers to stores, Walmart is trying a new traffic-boosting tactic: fun.

  • Coming soon to Nordstrom — cars

    The nation’s highest-profile electric car-marker is taking an unusual route to get its product out in front of potential customers.
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