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May 17, 2013
Stores must level up to match omnichannel hype

Online and mobile marketing have turned the retail supply chain upside-down. Gone are the days of moving volumes of product in efficient, bulk moves to stores across the world. Today, smaller shipments rule the supply chain, delivering — literally — on brand promises to ensure receipt of single, customized packages under same-day or next-day delivery.

May 9, 2013
Meijer marks milestone, opens 200th store

Meijer is marking a special milestone Thursday, May 16, when it opens its 200th store in Swartz Creek, Mich. The store opening will create more than 200 jobs for the community.

April 15, 2013
Amazon woos 50+ crowd with online health, wellness store

Online retailer Amazon has launched its 50+ Active and Healthy Living Store, which features hundreds of thousands of nutrition, wellness, exercise and fitness, medical, personal care, beauty, entertainment items and more — all in a single destination for customers in the 50+ age range.

March 22, 2013
Golfsmith goes ‘Xtreme’ with new Houston store

That old expression about everything being bigger in Texas was given more credence today with the grand opening of a 40,000-sq.-ft. Golfsmith superstore in Houston.

March 1, 2013
Lane Bryant opens NYC flagship

Lane Bryant has opened a new 7,835 square-foot flagship store in New York City.

December 11, 2012
DG eyes another year of record expansion

Dollar General fined tuned its full year sales and profit forecast following better than expected third quarter results that also flashed a few warning signs.

November 16, 2012
Dick’s faces new golf competitor

Dick’s Sporting Goods is looking at increased competition in its core Northeastern markets as PGA Tour Superstore prepares for the grand opening of its first retail location in Paramus, N.J.

August 29, 2012
Cabela's expands in Canada

Cabela’s is opening its second store in Saskatchewan, Canada in Regina.

August 29, 2012
Walmart gets jump on Target in Canada

The first of 39 former Zellers stores Walmart bought from Target in Canada celebrated its grand opening as a Walmart store earlier this month.

August 10, 2012
Market Track: July 2012

With the start of Back to School promotions, (and taking JCPenney out of the mix) we witnessed increase in page count that was driven mainly by significant increases in Walmart’s and Sears’ page counts.

July 2, 2012
Opening date set for Cabela's newest location

A soon-to-open Cabela’s store in Rogers, Ark., will test the viability of a large format store in a small market.

June 21, 2012
Largest Sears Canada Home store to open in Ottawa

Sears Canada has opened its largest Sears Home store at Pinecrest Shopping Center. The store will occupy 78,0000 sq.-ft. and feature an expanded selection of furniture as well as the largest major appliance and mattress shop of any Sears location.

May 31, 2012
Dick’s takes a run at new format

Dick’s Sporting Goods plans to open a new format focused on runners later this summer.

May 22, 2012
Target to open single-level store in New Mexico

Target will open a single-level store in New Mexico, the first of its kind in the state. The store, located in Albuquerque, is scheduled to open in 2013 and will occupy 155,000 sq. ft.

May 17, 2012
Save-A-Lot arrives in Atlantic City

Supervalu is bringing its Save-A-Lot banner to Atlantic City, N.J.

March 30, 2012
10,000 and counting for Dollar General

Nothing is slowing down Dollar General, which, shortly after reporting surging quarterly sales and profits, announced that it will open its 10,000th store in the United States.

February 23, 2012
Capitola and Petaluma (California) here we come

Twenty new Target stores are scheduled to open this year – including the company’s first five CityTarget locations – and two units in California are among them.

November 1, 2011
New Walmart Neighborhood Market to feature only LED lighting

Walmart will open its first store in the United States that utilizes all-LED lighting on the interior. The store, a Walmart Neighborhood Market, is located at 2111 N. Amidon, Wichita, Kan.

August 11, 2011
Family Dollar hits a major milestone

Family Dollar opened its 7,000th store Thursday, further cementing the dollar-store channel as an area of rapid growth.

August 9, 2011
Sports Authority expands in time for BTS

Children will be returning to school in a matter of weeks, and many of them will be joining or returning to some sort of sporting activity.

August 3, 2011
A fresh new focus at Winn-Dixie

APOPKA, Fla. – Winn-Dixie announced the opening of the first of several remodeled stores in Central Florida Wednesday as the company looks to reposition itself as the grocery destination in the area.

The store, located in Errol Plaza, is one of 17 planned store remodels. The company expects to invest approximately $5.5 million per store.

July 28, 2011
Payless fashions franchise success

The desire for affordable , stylish shoes is something shared by U.S. and international consumers alike, which is why Collective Brands' Payless ShoeSource unit has been able to build a successful franchise business overseas.

July 25, 2011
Walmart breaks new ground in Chicago

About a week after announcing it would join First Lady Obama and other retailers in bringing more choices to so-called "food deserts", Walmart announced its official presence in Chicago today with the news that it has begun work on a new supercenter in Chatham.

March 28, 2011
Charming Shoppes to close 240 stores

Charming Shoppes said it would close 240 unprofitable stores in 2011, or nearly 12% of its total outlets, and that more than half of those would be Fashion Bug stores.

February 18, 2011
Aldi takes a bite out of the Big Apple

NEW YORK — Discount grocer Aldi has opened its first-ever New York City-area store in the borough of Queens.

The store, which is located in Rego Park, marks the first of three grocery stores the company plans to open in New York, including new locations in the Bronx and Bay Shore, Long Island.

Aldi, which offers a limited assortment of items, said it will bring its standard floor plan to Queens, which includes wider-than-typical 8-ft. aisles.

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