Mike Baker

Mike Baker

July 26, 2018

Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Concepts We Like

Pitas and bowls and chickpeas and chicken. Add them up, and they equal growth for most of the “new wave”...

July 26, 2018

Home Depot Expands Online Fulfillment with Lockers

In a move to increase operational efficiency and boost the profile of its buy-online-pickup-in-store program, Home Depot will begin a...

July 25, 2018

Party City to Extend Some of Its 250 Short Term Leases

In the run-up to Halloween 2018, Party City is again in the market for 250 to 300 spaces to house...

July 24, 2018

Walmart and Microsoft Dig Deeper vs Amazon

Last week, as retail rival Amazon dominated headlines in the run up to, shaky start of and ultimate success from...

July 23, 2018

Walmart: Same Day Delivery across US in 5 Years

Speaking at a Fortune conference last week, Jet.com founder and Walmart.com CEO Marc Lore threw down the gauntlet when he...

July 20, 2018

DATATRAC: Restaurant & Retail Real Estate Report_July

This month’s Restaurant & Retail Real Estate Report is designed to help you stay up to date on events that...

July 19, 2018

DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology – July 2018

Foodservice • CaliBurger is trialing facial recognition software in its ordering kiosks in 10 locations. • Sweetgreen named Thomas Prommer...

July 18, 2018

DATATRAC: Home Center and Hardware Chains – July 2018

Personnel Updates • ABC Supply (37) promoted VP of Operations Mike Jost to COO. • Ace Hardware (52) named Kim...

July 18, 2018

DATATRAC: Restaurant & Foodservice – July 2018

Personnel Updates • B.Good (9) named Brent Feldman CMO to replace Kim Cerato who recently exited the company. • CKE...

July 13, 2018

Drugstore Performance Tracker

We’ve pulled and plotted same store sales and same store pharmacy sales for the industry leaders to take the temperature...

July 12, 2018

Golden Chick

July 12, 2018

Lowe’s CEO: There’s a New Sheriff in Town

Only a week after Marvin Ellison officially took the helm as its new CEO, Lowe’s announced a huge c-suite shakeup,...

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