In the fall of last year, many retail landlords were breathing a sigh of relief. They had gone all out to fill empty storefronts during the grimmest days of the pandemic, offering concessions to tenants and saying yes to pop-ups. That strategy appeared to pay off. By the third quarter […]
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People walk past office buildings in midtown Manhattan on May 7, 2021 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Before the pandemic, it would take Rob Byrnes at least 15 minutes to wait in line and grab a quick lunch at a fast-casual restaurant in midtown […]
Shoppers hold hands at the Willow Grove Park Mall in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, November 14, 2020. Mark Makela | Reuters Retailers will see eager holiday shoppers flock to stores and websites even as some toys, clothes and other gift-giving items remain stuck at congested ports, according to a new forecast […]
ORANGE — A leading retail consultant says New Haven County could be getting its first Amazon Fresh grocery store, based on indicators he has seen before as the e-commerce giant has rolled out its stores across the country. “I’m very familiar with for their site location and this checks off […]
We weren’t referring to today’s meme-stock investors, but we could have been. On Wall Street, “everyone picks on the little fellow,” Barron’s wrote on July 19, 1965, when, like now, growing numbers of retail investors were upsetting the professionals’ strategies. “The way grizzled tape-watchers see it,” we wrote, “odd-lotters never […]
FILE PHOTO: A view of the exterior of the Citibank corporate headquarters in New York, New York, U.S. May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register DBS to pay $707 million for Citi’s Taiwan consumer business Transaction will make DBS biggest foreign […]