People in rural counties like yoga and gourmet burgers, too, but towns like Quincy, Illinois, don’t show up on the population density charts of many hot new franchising companies.
Physical retail took center stage at Chain Store Age's X/SPECS 2017 executive conference, which put a spotlight on the evolution of brick-and-mortar stores from a design, build and facilities perspective.
Retail and industrial space occupied by brewing operations in Texas has nearly tripled since 2005 to 4.8 million sq. ft. due to the meteoric rise of craft beers in what once was the Lone Star (Beer) state.
