Well-capitalized brands are expanding as the pandemic winds down, among them DTC retailers and restaurant chains seeking specially located and designed spaces.
Prominent online brands continue to expand to high-profile physical retail locations, the latest being Amazon 4-Star and Warby Parker signing leases at the super-regional Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey.
During a three-hour webinar yesterday, foot traffic analyst Placer.ai, itself a big winner over the past year, asked panelists to name the retail brands they thought conquered the pandemic.
Registration has opened for Chain Store Age’s 58th annual SPECS event, which will be held March 20-22, 2022, at the Gaylord Texan, in Grapevine, Texas, just outside of Dallas.