Mike Baker

Mike Baker

February 7, 2019

Mall-Based Retailer Closing Almost 20% of Stores

Charlotte Russe became the latest mall-based apparel retailer to file for Chapter 11 last week. In the process, the company...

January 30, 2019

Lowe’s Partners with the NFL

In the lead up to this weekend’s Super Bowl, the National Football League and Lowe’s announced last week that the...

January 30, 2019

Loads of Leadership Changes in the Last 10 Days

Executive-suite activity levels have ramped up at a number of major chains recently, as the past 10 days have seen...

January 30, 2019

Breaking Down the Buyers: ShopKo Pharmacy Auction

As part of its efforts to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ShopKo placed the assets of 120 of its pharmacies...

January 29, 2019

Two Upstart Coffee Concepts with Big Expansion Plans

Starbucks execs backed off 2016 projections this month that the company would open 1,000 higher end Reserve coffee bars, and...

January 29, 2019

A Whole Lot More Dry Goods from Von Maur in 2019

Midwest department store chain Von Maur is growing. Those are two concepts – department store and growth – that we...

January 28, 2019

Domino’s Digital Round Up

Domino’s, hands down, is one of the best examples of an old-school consumer-facing brand whose investment in technology (and better...

January 25, 2019

Sprouts & Lucky’s Lead the Way: 2018 Specialty Growth

With 2018 in the books, it’s time to check out the state of the specialty grocery vertical through the lens...

January 24, 2019

DATATRAC: Restaurant & Retail Real Estate Report-January

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

January 24, 2019

Dollar General to go Big Again in 2019

While Dollar Tree wrestles with activist investors fighting to force the company to unload the struggling Family Dollar chain it...

January 23, 2019

DATATRAC: Restaurant & Foodservice – January 2019

Personnel Updates • A&W Restaurants (15) added “President” to COO Paul Martino’s title and expanded his remit to oversee development...

January 17, 2019

Charting Restaurant Acquisitions of 2018

The pace was off and the volume was down compared to 2017, but plenty of restaurant chains changed hands in...

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