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The Container Store Opens 100th Location, Doubles Down on Smaller Format

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The Container Store has opened its 100 th brick-and-mortar location in Princeton, NJ — a small-format concept designed to boost employee productivity and optimize the customer journey. This is the sixth small-format location the Container Store has opened to date.

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Target and Apple Triple Store-in-Store Relationship to 150 Locations

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Target and Apple have tripled the number of Apple at Target locations to 150 in preparation for the holiday season. Target and Apple launched their partnership in February 2021 at an initial 17 stores , gradually expanding the number to 36 in 2021 and reaching 150 today.

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Genesco to Close 100+ Journeys Stores as it Focuses on Off-Mall Locations

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Genesco expects to close more than 100 Journeys stores in fiscal 2024, more than its prior expectation of closing 60 stores, after the shoe retailer posted extremely poor results for Q1 2024, which ended April 29, 2023. The company is looking to pivot Journeys to an off-mall strategy, with 13 locations out of a planned 25 already open.

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Sock it to Them! Eastern Mountain Sports Promotes Circularity with Sock Give-Back

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All 20 EMS stores, located in seven Northeastern states, will participate. “I During the month of April, EMS will accept shoppers’ used, clean socks (of all brands) that will then be recycled into new products via a partnership with Material Return.

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7-Eleven Promotes Evolution Store Concept with PlayStation 5-Powered Experience

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7-Eleven and Airbnb will rent out the retailer’s new 7-Eleven Evolution Store in Dallas County, Texas for two separate nights before its official opening. The Dallas County location is one of six Evolution Stores, which will serve as testing grounds for the retailer’s latest innovations, across the U.S.

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Foot Locker Debuts ‘Store of the Future’ in New Jersey

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Foot Locker has unveiled its new store format, which includes a communal sneaker try-on area to facilitate “sneaker culture” conversations and technology that provides store associates with omnichannel inventory availability data. The retailer plans to use learnings from this store, located in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J.,

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Dollar General announces officer promotions

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on August 30 announced new leadership promotions and roles for nine officers. Zak Brining has been promoted to senior vice president of corporate store operations. He joined Dollar General in 2016 and has held roles of increasing responsibility in store operations. Dollar General Corp.