Salesforce: Short holiday season won’t stop digital shoppingDigital holiday sales will skyrocket in 2019. Report: Two major retailers eye FreshDirectAmazon and Walmart are both reportedly considering a purchase of on-demand grocery delivery platform FreshDirect. There are 23% more gyms in retail centers than there were in 2010 Traditional tenants in retail centers once scoffed at having gyms in their midst for all the parking spaces they took up. No more. Giant Food steps into online delivery shoes A regional mid-Atlantic grocer is offering its own paid unlimited delivery service. Food Lion keeps going with curbside pickup Food Lion is expanding its “Food Lion To-Go” service in four states. Uber buys grocery delivery startup Cornershop Uber continues to expand beyond its core ride-hailing business. The Experience-to-Stuff Ratio It’s no secret that a successful retail center of any kind in 2019 — be it an outdoor center or an enclosed mall — must re-jigger its mix to include a wide variety of food, beverage, and entertainment-based tenants. Mercato directly competes with AmazonFresh The e-commerce platform for independent grocers now offers a same-day delivery program. The Apocalypse That Isn’t Sometimes perception gets in the way of reality. Such is the case, I think, with the death of physical retail. A new type of coffee service comes to Whole Foods Whole Foods Market will soon debut a robotic barista at its Houston-Midtown store. First Previous 363 364 365 366 367 Next Last