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  • Deloitte: Back-to-college spend to outpace back-to-school sales two-fold

    Retailers who fail to promote back-to-college offers and savings this year do so at their own peril.   

  • New tenant specialist joins Mid-America

    Retail tenant specialist Jack Gray has joined Mid-America Real Estate’s Minnesota operation. He will be representing clients that include Starbucks, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Mills Fleet Farm.   Gray arrives at Mid-America from an internship on Cushman & Wakefield Northmarq’s industrial brokerage team.   Gray is a recent graduate of University of St. Thomas, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in marketing.  

  • College students to boost back-to-school spending to all-time high

    An uptick in college student enrollment will give a big boost to retailers' second biggest shopping season.    Combined back-to-school and back-to-college spending is projected to reach $83.6 billion, up more than 10% from last year’s $75.8 billion, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights and Analytics.   

  • Walmart looks to help others with women's empowerment

    Walmart has launched a digital platform to share tips and learnings that grew out of its five-year Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative.     As part of the ambitious initiative, which Walmart completed in January, the chain sourced $20 billion from Women Owned Businesses (WOBs) for its U.S. business, increased sourcing from WOBs internationally, and trained more than 1 million women worldwide.  

  • Westwood acquires Trader Joe’s center

    Noting that necessity-based have proven to resistant to the pressures of online retailers, Westwood Co-CEO Randy Banchik announced his company’s acquisition of The Arbors at Mallard Creek in Charlotte. Purchase price was $25.1 million.    “This asset boasts a variety of internet resistant tenants, insulating it from factors such as the rise of online shopping,” Blanchik said.  

  • Online giant isn't just disrupting retailing

    Amazon is impacting its hometown of Seattle in ways large and small.  

  • Amazon training program hits milestone

    Amazon’s innovative re-training program has hit an all-time high.   

  • J.C. Penney concept targets collegiates

    J.C. Penney is determined to become college-bound co-eds’ shopping destination for all of their dorm room needs.  
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