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Adults aren't buying toys. They're reshaping retail. The above photo is my oldest son's (29) lego city, called Bricklanta...a work in progress over the last 15 years. What started as a kid, has become a love of Lego that has lasted long into
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๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฌ+ ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐. ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. ๐ง๐๐ผ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ: ๐น๐ถ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. If you were a teenage girl in the late 90s or early 2000s, Wet Seal was your spot. Metallic graphics on the walls. Graphic tees. Fast denim. The soundtrack of mall culture. Founded in 1962 in Newport Beach, California as "Lorne's" (a swimwear boutique), the name
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If you grew up in the Northeast or MidโAtlantic, Rite Aid was justโฆ there. Flu shots, film developing, lateโnight snacks, first jobs. But behind that familiar blue script was a brutal balance sheet story. Founded by Alex Glass in 1962 in Scranton, PA as Thrift D Discount Center,
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Letโs start with a simple idea: Information isnโt scarce anymore...Attention is. We donโt live in a knowledge economy. We live in an attention economy. Online, everything is designed to grab your focus: * Platforms push outrage over nuance * Brands chase clicks over connection * Politics rewards extremes over
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For anyone who grew up in the 60s, 70s, or 80s, the familiar red Thom McAn sign was as much a part of the American mall experience as the food court and the fountain. Ward Melville and J. Franklin McElwain opened the first Thom McAn store in New York City
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One of the unexpectedly viral series of posts this year for me has been the Nostalgic Retail and Nostalgic Restaurant Series. These have been fun to do, have brought back successful strategies, questionable decisions, failed leadership, and most of all....brand attachment that we all had to many of these
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Founded in 1943 by German immigrants Hilda and Berthold Reich, Sigmund and Mathilda Rohrbach, and Justin and Alma Zimmerman, the business began as the Cleveland Fabric Shop in Ohio, later adopting the Jo-Ann Fabrics name as it expanded beyond a single location.ย Becoming a publicly traded company in 1969,
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I decided to dig into the history and theory of site selection, wanting to write about it, but with brevity (and not with the old "walking though 5 miles of snow to get to school attitude). Site selection has significantly evolved over the years...part due to economic development
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Marshall Fieldโs roots trace to 1852, when Potter Palmer opened P. Palmer & Company in Chicago as an upscale dry-goods store focused on service and trust. In 1865, Marshall Field and Levi Leiter joined the business, and by 1881 Field had taken control and rebranded it as Marshall
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In Commercial Real Estate, data used to be scarce, proprietary, and hard to access. Today, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. We are awash in information: geospatial data, foot traffic data, building sensor data, hyperlocal demographic and persona data, transaction data, crime and employment data, sophisticated predictive models
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In 1992, Musicland Group saw an opportunity to revolutionize entertainment retail by creating a one-stop superstore that combined everything a media enthusiast could want: CDs, VHS tapes, video games, books, electronics, toys, anime, and more. The first Media Play opened its doors in Rockford, Illinois, at the Forest Plaza
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Founded in 1951 by husband and wife Carl and Dorothy Bennett, Caldor started as a modest second-story "Walk-Up-&-Save" operation in Port Chester, New York. The couple pooled their $8,000 in savings after visiting an E.J. Korvette store, inspired to create something different