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The Weekly Closeout: Tillys, J. McLaughlin get new CEOs

Retail Dive

Staples expands partnership with Verizon Staples and Verizon have expanded their partnership , bringing the phone and internet carrier’s kiosks to 35 Staples stores. The stores will open on a rolling basis through mid-August, with additional locations opening later in the year. 60 That’s how old Petco is this year.

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Melbourne’s Brandon Park Shopping Centre sells for $107 million

Inside Retail

The centre has five mini-majors and 86 specialty tenancies and kiosks. “The offer attracted keen interest from a wide range of investors given its metropolitan Melbourne location coupled with the opportunity to enhance the retail offering via strategic repositioning,” said Simon Rooney from CBRE.

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Eat, shop, play, repeat: Behind Central Retail’s winning mall formula

Inside Retail

The malls are distributed across Thailand, often in locations of no or secondary tourism importance. Does anyone remember the ‘common area’ anymore, before ‘squeezing the asset’ became the norm and the open space was stuffed until it was blue in the face with kiosks, pop-ups and carts?)

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Locals rebuff invaders: Inside Vietnam’s convenience stores war

Inside Retail

This year, Masan took a majority stake in the owner of the Phuc Long tea chain and began adding tea and coffee kiosks to its convenience stores. By nature, the convenience store industry is highly profitable, with fatter margins than supermarkets driven by location and being a ‘quick fix’ for daily needs.

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FMI honors seven exemplary food industry leaders

Mass Relators

” The 2024 awards, presented at FMI’s Midwinter Executive Conference, went to: Brookshire’s Brad Brookshire; KeHe Distributors’ Brandon Barnholt; Associated Wholesale Grocer’s David Smith; Hy-Vee’s Donna Tweeten; Seaside Market’s John Najjar; Nestlé’s Steve Presley; and PepsiCo’s Steven Williams. Woodard, Jr.,

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#TBT: Service Merchandise Was the OG Multi-Channel Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

After leaving the wholesale business, the couple opened Service Merchandise, Inc., Current catalogs were placed on stands in strategic locations throughout the store to allow customers to shop for the items not on display. ” A couple of locations even tested out a drive-through experience.

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Down, but not out: Welcome to the new physical retail

Inside Retail

The categories and brands ranged will vary by location. Shoppers will be able to checkout the traditional way, or via self-checkout kiosks, or via a roving staff member’s mobile POS terminal. Or Alibaba’s Freshippo omnichannel stores, which launched in 2016 and now number 200 locations across China.