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Author By Daphne Howland @daphnehowland • Published Oct. 24, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: It was a surprise last year when Deloitte found that holiday consumers expected to spend as much online as in stores, but this year that’s gone even further: More than half (51%) of holiday shoppers expect their budgets to go to online spending, compared to 42% who expect to spend in stores,...
The Collective at Coda in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square will include eight to 10 eateries with communal seating areas opening up into a 20,000-square-foot outdoor space. ATLANTA — The Collective, a new food hall concept, is set to join the forthcoming Coda development underway at 771 Spring St. in Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. The Collective will include eight to 10 eateries with communal s...
Lord & Taylor’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue is getting sold to WeWork, the New York-based tech unicorn that markets shared office space. Hudson’s Bay, the owner of Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, is selling the century-old Lord & Taylor flagship for $850 million, the companies announced on Tuesday. WeWork will convert the 11-story building at Fifth Avenue and 38th Street in...
As the flagship store shrinks, the deal is an acknowledgment that even grand shopping spaces of old may now be more valuable as offices.
Listen to our recent discussion led by Dreamit Chief Investment Officer Karen Griffith Gryga and featuring with Chris Mayer, Chief Innovation Officer at Suffolk Construction, and Camille Renshaw, CEO of RenshawCo. Guests discuss trends and tactics for investing in real estate tech and construction tech. Chris Mayer, Chief Innovation Officer at Suffolk ConstructionAs Executive Vice President &...
A new Apple Store has just opened in downtown Chicago—and it’s an architectural beauty. Designed by Foster + Partners, Apple Michigan Avenue follows the tech giant’s new (and controversial) “Town Square” store concept in which stores are meant to serve as community hubs rather than simply commercial spaces. Naming aside, the new Apple flagship is a stunner with wraparound glazing and an ...
Food retailers are racing to leverage one of the most important weapons in their battle to keep people coming to grocery stores: data. “Data is the new battleground,” says Stuart Aitken, chief executive of 84.51˚, Kroger Co.’s KR, +1.57% data-analytics unit, whose name derives from the longitude of the division’s Cincinnati headquarters and because its 750 employees do so-called longitudi...
Technology disruption is a common theme that comes up when we talk about the labor market and the future for businesses across the world. To the average person, words like technology disruption and automation elicit images of factories and warehouses being staffed with robots instead of manpower. The truth, however, is that new technology will disrupt the way that every industry does business, not...
There was a moment in recent history when regular mail was renamed snail mail. Email had emerged as the fastest, most efficient method of delivering written communication, and it left snail mail in the dust. But, if you’re still emailing like it’s 1999, you’ve got some catching up to do. Using modern tools and technologies, you can streamline your email prospecting to reach people 10x faster...
A very strange way to woo Amazon By Post Editorial Board View author archive Get author RSS feed Name(required) Email(required) Comment(required) October 20, 2017 | 7:30pm Modal Trigger Erik Thomas/NY Post see also De Blasio submits bid for Amazon but doesn't want you shopping there Just hours after the city put forth a proposal to... Does Mayor de Blasio really want Amazon to choose New Yo...