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  • Ron Johnson’s Enjoy expanding

    The nearly one-year-old online retail startup from Ron Johnson is expanding into new markets.

    Enjoy, which sells higher-end consumer electronics that trained experts hand deliver and provide training for at no additional charge, has added Los Angeles to its delivery area. Its next market will be Chicago.

    The company already services San Francisco and New York City.

  • City style retailing is on its way to Sunrise, Florida

    Sunrise, Fla. -- Metropica Holdings and KGH International Development announced that construction is on track for the retail vertical portion to begin this summer and is underway on the residential component for Metropica, located in Sunrise, Florida. Metropica is a transit-oriented mixed-use complex encompassing 65 acres and more than 4 million sq. ft. of retail, world-class residential, commercial, hotel, conference and public spaces.

  • Conn's to open new stores, names new chairman

    Conn’s is planning to make investments in technology, credit and personnel in 2016 as the retailer looks to expand its footprint and improve profitability. 

    For the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31 the retailer said revenues increased 7% to $456.8 million. Same store sales decreased 1.7%. Conn's said its credit segment operating loss increased from $11.3 million to $19.3 million, driven primarily by bad debts.

  • Apple opens next-generation store

    Photo by Apple insider

    Apple has take the wraps off its hotly anticipted next-generation store, which is located at the Shops of Saddle Creek South in Germantown, Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis.

    The space features a massive display screen that stands nearly floor-to-ceiling at the wall opposite the store's all-glass entrance, reported AppleInsider.

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  • Study: Retailers behind in EMV, does it matter?

    Many retailers are lagging in their EMV adoption efforts, and many consumers may not care that much.

  • Ambassador Town Center celebrates grand opening with 97% occupancy

    Lafayette, La. -- Stirling Properties and CBL & Associates Properties celebrated the grand opening of Ambassador Town Center located in Lafayette, Louisiana. The center is currently 97% leased and includes either first-time locations within Lafayette or Louisiana, or both.

  • Baker Katz breaks ground on redevelopment totaling 33,000 sq. ft.

    Atascocita, Texas -- Baker Katz, an X Team International partner and full-service commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in retail tenant representation, investment sales, and project development and leasing, announced that it has broken ground on the redevelopment of two buildings totaling 33,000 sq. ft. on 4.5 acres of land located Atascocita, Texas.

  • Ex-Walmart, Sears exec joins Conn's board

    Conn's is adding two independent directors with deep retail expertise to its board.

    The company announced that James Haworth and Oded Shein have been appointed as independent directors.

    “Jim and Oded are proven leaders with more than a half century of combined retail experience,” said Theodore M. Wright, non-executive chairman of the board, Conn’s. “They add even greater depth to our Board as we continue implementing Conn’s strategic plan.”

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