You would have to search high and low to find a prettier market square than the one in Donegal town. It’s not really a square at all, of course, but is known as The Diamond, an oasis of calm in the ...

In late October of this year, the office-sharing start-up WeWork announced that it was buying Lord & Taylor’s flagship store in New York City. Coming as this did in the wake of the bankruptcies of ...

Placer.ai aims to help retail, hospitality and real estate businesses deal with the ‘retail apocalypse’ by using real-time location analytics and foot-traffic data. Placer.ai has announced that it ...

Stress on brick-and-mortar retailers reached its peak in 2017 with the doomsday, “retail apocalypse” narrative. Heavily publicized store closings, dips in big chains’ stock prices and the rise of ...

The World Economic Forum noted that COVID-19 was spreading as early as December of 2019. When it exploded onto the news in early 2020, economic pundits weren't paying it much notice. It was, after all ...

Two malls in New Jersey are slowly dying as they continue failing to attract shoppers in what is supposed to be the busiest season of the year for the retail sector. The typical Christmas hustle and ...

Traffic has been declining for decades, and is set to accelerate with the growth of trip-eliminators (e.g. online) and ‘trip-consolidators’ (e.g. bulk-item retailers). Two growth levers remain: more ...

Game over may be flashing on the screen again for GameStop. The once-dominant video game chain is expected to shutter around 470 stores in January alone, according to a blog that tracks its closures.