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.
There isn’t a retail research firm or an investment house that hasn’t predicted an early start to a holiday season in which product availability is being curtailed by supply chain problems, and Placer.ai’s October Mall Index indicates Christmas shopping is underway.
With its revenues slashed in half by mandatory store closings in 2020, Solstice Sunglasses sought bankruptcy protection and emerged from Chapter 11 with fewer shops and smaller rents.