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Academy Sports Plans to Open 15-17 New Stores by Early 2025

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Academy Sports + Outdoors will open up to 17 new stores during its 2024 fiscal year, which began Feb. The first two stores are in the Raleigh suburb of Knightdale, N.C., The retailer currently operates 283 stores across 18 states. which opened on March 22, and the Indianapolis-area Greenwood, Ind.,

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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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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. They can serve as anything from staging grounds to fulfill orders from multiple retailers at a communal “curbside” to open areas where larger-scale events can take place.

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Datalogic Skorpio X5: the world’s most-advanced, key-based mobile computer

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inch Gorilla Glass screen, which is unrivalled for readability in any lighting condition, including bright outdoor environments. For applications like warehousing, fulfillment, inventory, store operations, shipping and receiving, the need to maintain rapid, accurate and seamless data capture to provide real-time visibility is essential.

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

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She noted that the concept of “partial de-malling,” which could include integration of outdoor spaces for walkable plazas and eating areas, food carts/trucks, skating rinks, miniature golf courses and the like, all will contribute to the experiential and entertainment value of a trip to the mall.

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Package Concierge Provides Lockers For 24/7 Contactless Pickup

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Package Concierge , a provider of automated locker solutions, offers outdoor lockers designed for contactless, 24/7 pickup for buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) orders. The lockers can streamline BOPIS fulfillment with store process automation to deliver a more convenient customer experience.

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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.

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