Hospitality

Look at a leasing brochure for a modern-day town center and there you will find two words that have been underlined by the COVID-19 crisis: “gathering places.”

Consumers are shopping for groceries less but spending more than they did pre-pandemic.

Four retailers and two restaurant chains cracked the upper ranks of a customer experience ranking.

Chain Store Age’s annual SPECS Show — dedicated to planning/design, construction and maintenance of stores and restaurants — will take place August 4-6 on a platform that offers all the signature hallmarks of SPECS but in a completely virtual environment.