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  • Not enough of a good thing

    With few new grocery centers being built, developers are upping the ante on existing ones

    Pat Donahue, together with his late brother Dan and business partner Tom Schriber, has been in grocery-anchored shopping centers since the ’90s. That’s when Schriber calculated that the company’s long-term fortunes, which had rested on mall development up until then, would be better wagered on high-traffic “necessity-based” retail.

    “At malls you get ’em three times a month.

  • Target Gets ‘Smart’ About Lighting

    Target is taking its lighting to the next level. The retailer tapped Acuity Brands to provide Target stores with smart lighting technologies, featuring energy-saving LED fixtures and dimming controls. Target will be exclusively installing Acuity’s next generation, smart LED sales floor fixtures, along with its store accent lighting and distribution center site lighting.

  • holiday // planning

    Get ready for a very competitive holiday season.

  • Project Profiles

    Los Gatos Village Square

    Location: 15466 Los Gatos Boulevard, between California Highways 85 and 17 in Los Gatos, California

    Size: 46,235 sq. ft.

    Developer: Donahue Schriber Realty Group

    Grocery anchor: Trader Joe’s

    Key tenants: Pet Food Express, See’s Candies, The UPS Store, AAA Automobile Club, Baja Fresh Mexican Grill

  • Tech Guest Viewpoint: Pokémon and iBeacons: The new, friendly monsters of location intelligence

    Whether you’re an eye-roller or an enthusiastic participant, Pokémon Go is a game that’s difficult to ignore. It does have a lot going for it: nostalgic yet advanced, simple but strategic, and although played on phones, the game incorporates the user’s surroundings to an extent we haven’t really seen before. The “Go” sets the game apart from all others that have come before, Pokémon or not: you simply can’t catch Pokémon while sitting still.   

  • Best Buy puts out welcome mat for connected store concept

    Best Buy has opened a pop-up dedicated to smart technology products for the home in the rotunda of the nation’s largest mall.   

  • The retailer with the best digital gift card program is…

    Beauty giant Sephora scores the highest when it comes to online gifting.    That’s according to RSR Research’s sixth annual digital gifting benchmarking report.  Sephora came out on top, scoring 55 points out of a possible 66 points, followed by Starbucks (50.5) and The Home Depot (46.5). Rounding out the top five: Dunkin’ Donuts (44.5) and Amazon (43). (The top 25 retailers in the study are listed at the end of article.)    

  • Target CIO talks stores, digital, supply chain and more

    Mike McNamara, a former executive at British retailer Tesco PLC, joined Target as CIO last summer, moving from London to Minneapolis.   In a Q&A on Target’s website, McNamara discusses highlights of his first year with the discounter and priorities going forward. He also spoke about Target’s tech hiring boom.    
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