FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more information, please see our WEBINARS. Focus Trends ~ Wholesale Clubs Expansion & Closures The wholesale club sector is dominated by three major retailers: Costco, Sam’s Club, and BJ’s Wholesale Club. These stores offer […]
Focus Trends ~ Shoes
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more information, please see our WEBINARS. Focus Trends ~ Shoes Expansion & Closures Declines and reinventions have been the story for the shoe store sector in 2017. The bankruptcy and ensuing closures for Payless […]
Focus Trends ~ Hobby & Craft
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more information, please see our WEBINARS. Hobby & Craft: expansion and closures The hobby and craft retail sector is dominated by Michaels, JoAnn Fabrics and Craft, and Hobby Lobby. Although Michaels and JoAnn Fabrics […]
Focus Trends ~ Quick Service Restaurants
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more information, please see our WEBINAR on QSR’s. As full-service restaurants have struggled and limited-service restaurants have been volatile, quick-service restaurants have chugged along. The fast-food giants have forged ahead with innovations to keep […]
Focus Trends: Casual Dining
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more information, please see our WEBINAR on Casual Dining. FOCUS TRENDS: CASUAL DINING Declining sales and closures have been the story of the casual dining sector for the past year. National “casual dining” chains […]
Focus Trends~ Sporting Goods
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. FOCUS TRENDS :: SPORTING GOODS The sporting goods sector has had a tough year with Sports Authority, Golfsmith, and others declaring bankruptcy. All the while, the merger between Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s has yet […]
Focus Trends~ Apparel
FOCUS TRENDS is a monthly retail strategies article on a specific retail category highlighting growth and contraction within the market. For more on Apparel please listen to our APPAREL WEBINAR. FOCUS TRENDS :: APPAREL The apparel retail sector has taken over headlines over the past few months, but it’s mainly been big-name closures grabbing […]
Focus Trends: Fast Casual 2017
“Focus Trends” is a monthly article highlighting a retail category. For more insight listen to our Retail Webinar series on Fast Casual. Fast Casual: Expansion / Closures The explosive growth of fast-casual restaurants during the economic recession up to the present shook up the industry by filling an untapped niche. Fast Casuals have faster service […]
Focus Trends ~ Grocery 2017
“Focus Trends” is a monthly article highlighting a retail category. For more insight listen to our Retail Webinar series on Grocery. GROCERY EXPANSION & RETRACTION As the national news stories are devoted to the comings and goings of the major department and apparel stores, the grocery sector is experiencing a burst of interest with hopes […]
Focus Trends ~ Exercise & Fitness
“Focus Trends” is a monthly article highlighting a retail category. For more insight listen to our Retail Webinar series on Fitness. January is a month focused on fitness and health. As healthcare costs rise, Americans are taking control of their personal health by improving diet and exercise. The fitness category has been, and will continue […]
Focus Trends ~ Hardware Industry
“Focus Trends” is a series of monthly articles highlighting trends in a retail category. Hardware Industry Outlook Focus Trends: Hardware (PDF) Overall, the major players in the home improvement market segment have been growing conservatively as they weathered the storm of the recession to today. Based on the data collected from Cushman & Wakefield’s North […]
Focus Trends: Franchising
“Focus Trends” highlights one retail topic every month. ** For more on Franchising listen to our August 2016 webinar with Jania Bailey of FranNet. The Importance of Franchising Franchises are a critical element of retail that is not widely understood. This lack of awareness belies the significance of franchised businesses, even beyond the retail sector. […]
Focus Trends: Casual Dining
“Casual Dining succeeds with focus on food and fun” Nation’s Restaurant News, Jun 28, 2016 by Ron Ruggless This is part of the Nation’s Restaurant News annual Top 100 report, a proprietary ranking of the foodservice industry’s largest restaurant chains and parent companies. Dining and entertainment chain Dave & Buster’s leads segment in sales growth Casual […]
Focus Trends: Beauty & Health
“Focus Trends” is a Retail Strategies monthly article, highlighting trends in specific categories of retail. Full Experience Cosmetics: In-Store and Online Health and Beauty stores are changing their store concepts to keep up with customers’ demands. According to Yahoo! Beauty, Millennials are shopping at physical retail stores as opposed to online for cosmetic supplies. Millennials […]
Focus Trends: Grocery
“Focus Trends” highlights one retail topic every month. ** For more on grocery trends listen to our May webinar with Joe Kucharski. Disruption in the Grocery Industry: Millennials, New Formats and Partnerships The grocery industry in the U.S. is changing dramatically. In the past, a single store could serve all shoppers’ food, beverage and daily […]
Focus Trends: Sports
In the category of Sports, there have been some major changes with the players that are effecting retail real estate in a big way. Between Sports Authority’s bankruptcy and growth strategies from Dick’s Sporting Goods and Hibbett Sports, we are seeing a great deal of activity for new development and filling of second generation space. […]
