STORE SPACES

El Pollo Loco will introduce a new, digitally enabled format designed to enhance off-premise convenience as more consumers shift to take-out amid the pandemic. 

A retailer is using new technology to help combat the spread of COVID-19. 

Amazon will become the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy.

Super Saturday, the last Saturday before Christmas (Dec. 19), is still expected to be the second-busiest day of the 2020 holiday season, but it won’t be as big as previous years.

Retailers across the country are looking for ways to improve their HVAC systems and internal air quality in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Several features that have taken hold in malls and shopping centers during the pandemic will continue to maintain their presences long after COVID-19 departs, according to three leading retail real estate managers. 

State officials in California have lessened a stringent retail capacity limit for grocery stores.

Francesca’s Holdings Corp. is planning to close more stores on top of the 137 locations it closed prior to filing for bankruptcy.