June 27, 2018

Five Below Adding 125 Stores as Growth Continues

Five Below continues to expand. The company closed 2017 with 625 stores, having grown by 103 net units, or 19.7% on...

By Mike Baker

June 27, 2018

PacSun and Eddie Bauer Find a New Home – Of Sorts

Golden Gate Capital, the owner of Pacific Sunwear of California and Eddie Bauer, announced the creation a new operating company,...

By Mike Baker

June 25, 2018

Ahold Delhaize Launches Peapod Digital Labs

While the Kroger-Ocado tech deal garnered a ton of attention in recent weeks, Ahold Delhaize USA, a subsidiary of 10th...

By Mike Baker

June 25, 2018

10 Years of Growth and Counting: Sprouts Opens #300

Earlier in June, Sprouts Farmers Market opened its 300th store, and in doing so, expanded into South Carolina for the...

By Mike Baker

June 25, 2018

Discounter Growing Store Count by 20% per Year

Retailers that disregard Five Below as a competitor do so at their own peril. The Philadelphia-based discounter is one of...

By Mike Baker

March 28, 2018

Fast-Casual Pizza Winners Continue to Grow

A half-decade into the fast-casual, fast-fired pizza boom, two concepts have separated themselves from the pack. Over the last two...

By Mike Baker

November 27, 2017

Sheetz v. Wawa: The Tale of the Tape

After Week 12 in the NFL, the Steelers and Eagles sit atop their respective divisions. And as the year comes...

By Mike Baker

November 1, 2017

Walgreens to Close 600 Stores

Walgreens Boots Alliance released its fiscal year results yesterday, soundly beating Wall Street expectations. The company delivered net earnings of...

By Mike Baker

November 1, 2017

The Hardware Market in Houston

This month, we thought we’d have a look at some of the data from our 2017 Hardware Store Market Share...

By Mike Baker

November 1, 2017

Ranking the Top Department Stores

We recently published our 62nd annual Directory of Department Stores & Shoe Retailers, a tried-and-true look at these industries that...

By Mike Baker

November 1, 2017

Finger Linking Good: Restaurant Growth Report

In the restaurant space, the first cracks have begun to appear in the fast-casual boom while a widespread quick-serve resurgence...

By Mike Baker

November 1, 2017

Retail POS Software Survey Results

Last month was restaurants, so this month we look at data from Chain Store Guide’s Retail Technology Database – data...

By Mike Baker