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  • A fresh take on ‘Retailtainment’ and future of fun

    Retail has been the foundation of shopping centers throughout their existence, but new entertainment concepts are making inroads in traditional retail venues.
     

  • Thieves target Walmart POS with skimmers

    Criminals have reportedly been targeting some Walmart stores with credit card skimming devices illicitly placed on POS terminals.

    According to the Krebs on Security blog, the skimmers are designed to overlay legitimate self-payment card readers manufactured by Ingenico and have been found at Walmart locations in Fredericksburg, Virginia and Fort Wright, Kentucky.
     

  • Walmart exec joins board of standards body

    Cameron Geiger, senior VP, Walmart technology, has been appointed to the GS1 U.S. board of governors.

    He will help guide the GS1 U.S. strategy for driving adoption and usage of GS1 standards within the retail industry. GS1 standards are used to uniquely identify products, services and locations globally.

  • Taubman talks mobile, malls and Millennials at RECon

    Taubman Centers COO William Taubman offered insights on shoppers, property trends and how technology is changing the fundamental experience and brand promise of shopping centers.

    To watch his wide ranging conversation with ICSC’s Jesse Tron, click here.

     

  • The retailer with the best customer experience is…

    Supermarkets and fast-casual restaurant brands took the top positions in an annual ranking of customer experience.   Publix, Chick-fil-A, and H-E-B earned top three positions in Temkin Group’s 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, a cross-industry benchmark of customer experience.     Publix had a score of 84%, closely followed by Chick-fil-A and H-E-B, which both scored 83% in the seventh annual rating.  

  • Chico’s nominates Walmart and Hudson’s Bay vets to board

    Chico’s FAS is nominating two new independent board members as two current members prepare to retire and an investor says it will nominate its own two candidates.
     

  • Wine merchant acquires taste for physical stores

    The formerly online only retailer The Wine Cellar Group isn’t afraid of competition. The company is pursuing its brick and mortar ambitions with a new store in the backyard of Amazon.com and Costco, the nation’s largest seller of wine.
     
    Born online in 1990, The Wine Cellar Group opened its first store in 2012 and has since grown to nine locations. Its newest store will be a Wine Cellar Outlet and is set to open later this year in the Heritage Square shopping center in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Costco’s hometown.
     

  • Steelpointe Harbor hits stride

    In Bridgeport, Connecticut, one of the most ambitious and unique waterfront developments in the nation continues to take shape.
     

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