Category Archives: Specialty Retail

Shoppers prefer the STORE

By Alex Delotch Davis | April 27, 2011

Walmart is testing a grocery delivery service.  Shoppers can purchase a limited assortment of grocery products online and have them delivered to their door for a small fee.  Walmart is not the first player in the grocery delivery business but they definitely plan to follow their formula and become the biggest.
According to The New York [...]

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Airports: The New Retail Frontier

By Alex Delotch Davis | March 16, 2011

Just a couple of weeks ago, I relayed my surprise at discovering a comfortable contemporary airport terminal at JFK that was more of a hang out than a wait station.  Turns out, that’s all the rage.
Just like everyone else, airports are being squeezed in this economy, and to make up for shrinking airline rent and [...]

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Dollar Stores Could be Missing their Best Opportunity

By Alex Delotch Davis | November 1, 2010

Value leaders like Family Dollar and Dollar General seem to be having trouble sustaining the boom generated after the initial shock of the recession.  Many analysts and retail watchers, we included, thought their time had come.  Dollar stores had an opportunity to connect with a barrage of new customers faced with surviving an uncertain economy.  [...]

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Pop Up for Pop-Tarts

By Alex Delotch Davis | August 17, 2010

Retail is an extension of the brand.  While most consumer brand people have always known that, retailers and manufacturers may not have always taken full advantage of this singular opportunity to make consumers awash in the brand image.  But they are now.
Target started the pop-up store trend when they launched the Manhattan Bullseye Bodega. Since then several [...]

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What’s up with Fifth Avenue?

By Alex Delotch Davis | April 21, 2010

First Brooks Brothers moves out, then Uniqlo moves in and there goes the neighborhood? It’s a question.  Fifth Avenue, synonomous with sophisticates and upscale shopping, seems to have taken an economic beating that’s changing it’s landscape. 
Uniqlo had been eyeing the 30,000 square foot vacancy left by Brooks Brothers since last  summer.  This week the company announced plans to [...]

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