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  • Survey: Online spend per gift rises; outerwear most popular gift

    Consumers are spending more money per gift online this holiday season than last — 49% more to be exact.   That’s according to e-gifting platform and service Look Commerce, which announced insights into consumer gifting behavior and top gifts purchased between Dec. 10 and Dec. 16, 2016.  

  • More retailers eliminate on-call scheduling

    Aeropostale, Disney Store, Pacific Sun, and Zumiez joined the growing list of retailers that have stopped using the controversial practice of on-call scheduling for store employees.   

  • Specialty retailer names new CEO

    Land’s End has appointed a seasoned fashion and luggage veteran as its next chief executive.    The apparel retailer named Jerome Griffith to be its next CEO, effective March 6, 2017. Griffith most recently served as president and CEO of upscale luggage brand Tumi Holdings from 2009 until its sale in August 2016 to Samsonite International. He will also join the Lands’ End board of directors.  

  • This group is spending less this holiday — or are they?

    The wealthiest segment of the U.S. population is cutting back a little this holiday season.      

  • Bed Bath & Beyond hit with overtime pay suit

    Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is being accused of shorting the wages of employees by not paying them for overtime.   The class action lawsuit, filed in New Jersey’s Middlesex County Superior Court, accuses the home goods retailer of violating the state’s Wage and Hour Law by not paying some of its employees time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours.   

  • Hull undertakes slow resuscitation of Tennessee Mall

    Hull Property Group plans to move slowly in remaking the Kingsport Town Center, delaying the recruitment of new tenants until it can re-establish the 40-year-old mall as a popular destination for shoppers.  

  • Amazon and Saks tops in customer experience

    Amazon and Saks came out on top in the 12th annual ForeSee Experience Index (FXI), which identified the top brands for retail customer experience this holiday season across three channels: online, store and mobile.   

  • CBL sheds three third-tier malls

    CBL announced it has closed on a sale of three Tier 3 malls to Hull Property Group for a price of $32.25 million. Changing hands are the Randolph Mall in Asheboro, North Carolina, and the Regency Mall in Racine, Wisconsin.    The identity of the third property was not disclosed.  
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