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Bass Pro Shop Parent Acquires Sportsman’s Warehouse

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Great American Outdoors Group, parent company of Bass Pro Shops , Cabela’s and White River Marine Group , will acquire Sportsman’s Warehouse for $785 million in cash, according to The Street. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2021.

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Post-COVID Shopping Center Strategies: ‘Digital Districts’ and Landlord-Tenant Collaboration

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The pandemic has weighed heavily on brick-and-mortar retail in general and shopping centers in particular, but the industry is now emerging into a new world with new opportunities. While digital sales skyrocketed in 2020, the similarly large spike in store-based fulfillment showed that stores are still a vital part of the equation.

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Thinking Outside the Mall: Using Exterior Spaces to Draw Shoppers In

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For those not familiar, it’s an enormous structure, and like most auto-centric suburban shopping centers, it’s surrounded by acres of parking spaces. Supreet Barhay: Even before the pandemic, we were looking at ways shopping centers could draw more foot traffic by creating additional places for community and engagement.

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To Earn Engagement, Retailers Must Tap into Customers’ Emotions

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Harmon: We’ve done work for Rick Caruso , who has developed some of the popular outdoor malls in Southern California such as Palisades Village, Encino Marketplace and The Grove, and I learned a lot from him about how to create engaging experiences and keep people there. He’s also been good about creating scarcity.

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The Grocery Store Experience: How to Design Safe, Adaptable Shopping Environments

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To gather insights as part of the Post Occupancy Evaluation process, T&C and the Building Performance team at Cushing Terrell developed and distributed a survey to T&C’s customer base across their six store locations. Many noted that their positive perception of T&C’s COVID-19 response has increased their loyalty.

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Shinola and Filson to Update In-Store Experience with Omnichannel Platform

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Shinola and Filson will modernize their in-store experiences with mobile POS, order management and store inventory solutions from NewStore. The partnership will streamline operations, improve inventory accuracy and help our retailers gain valuable insights about their customers, all while offering a more unified shopping experience.”

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How AT&T’s Early Pandemic Experience Prepared it for a Unique Holiday Season

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For instance, the retailer fulfilled 25% to 30% of orders through contactless curbside pickup, and the infrastructure put in place to accomplish this will remain valuable through the holidays. Not every shopper wants curbside pickup, and AT&T also has put tools in place to make the in-store shopping experience as safe as possible. “The

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