Insights

The past 18 months have seen – in retailers and suppliers alike – a critical lack of best practices and an almost overwhelming number of alternate fulfillment solutions being rolled out in mass.

Mall owners have spent a lot of the last year in lease renegotiations with tenants. Not so much with owner-operators of community and neighborhood centers, according to Brixmor chief revenue officer Brian Finnegan.

Every holiday season, retail chains like See's Candies significantly increase their store footprints by rolling out pop-ups and kiosks in malls and other locations, seemingly overnight.

More retailers are attempting to transform themselves into full-fledged technology platforms, with good justification.

Yesterday, President Biden unveiled a plan requiring vaccination for workers of companies with greater than 100 employees or submit to weekly testing.

Five recommendations for brands to optimize growth

The summer of 2021 featured some intriguing developments in retail technology.

Automated and robotic systems have a growing presence in the retail construction field.

Headless e-commerce - if you haven’t heard about it yet, you probably have your head in the sand or more likely haven’t been sitting inside your local developer hotspots (aka coffee shops). 

Ghost kitchens are appearing more and more, and making believers out of the retailers who open them.