Retail

Landlords are backfilling vacant big-box spaces with multiple discount retailers, while Amazon explores growth in brick and mortar to complement their digital presence, says Hanley Investment Group's Bill Asher.

ICSC RECon speaker David Huntoon, president of Intalytics, says that trade area and customer segments, are two of the many key site selection criteria to help drive successful unit performance.

In the opening workshop session, held Sunday morning at ICSC's RECon Convention, Yaromir Steiner, CEO of Steiner + Associates, talked about how understanding the difference in need based services versus want base services is key.

Despite the disruptive inventions of enclosed arcades, shopping malls and, most recently, online shopping, street retail remains the human race's favorite mode of exchanging money for goods, says one source we <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b> spoke with surround our ICSC RECon show coverage.

RECon will feature an innovation exchange that will provide hands-on access to next-generation retail concepts. Attendees <b>EXCLUSIVELY</b> talk security robots, virtual dressing rooms, A.I. integration and more.

Bill Friend, managing director/VP of Fluent Commerce, shared insights on how retailers are capitalizing on the toy giant's closure and the tools necessary in the retail process in this <b>EXCLUSIVE</b>.