Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)

Retailers who prioritize customers’ desires for a safe, efficient shopping journey will be the big winners this year.

REI Co-op has sold its new corporate campus even before it moved in, in line with the company’s move away from the traditional retail HQ model. 

The pandemic will have a lasting impact on corporate retail employees.  

Three of the country’s most high-profile outdoor apparel retailers have joined a boycott campaign against Facebook, which ranks as the second-largest U.S. digital ad player after Google. 

Brick-and-mortar stores across the country, from Nordstrom to REI, are reopening with limits on customer capacity.

REI to offer curbside pick-up as it starts reopening stores

More retail companies are furloughing employees and announcing executive pay cuts — some to greater degrees than others — as stores remain closed indefinitely during the COVID-19 pandemic.