August 16, 2017

Breaking News: Mapping Joe’s Crab Shack 40+ Closures

  Joe’s Crab Shack has abruptly and without comment shuttered dozens of locations in recent days as it awaits a...

By Mike Baker

July 28, 2017

CSG’s 2017 Chain Drugstore Rankings

Published just this week, the 2017 Directory of Drug Store & HBC Chains is now available. The directory contains more...

By Mike Baker

July 27, 2017

Chain Growth Report: Chicken Rules the Roost

Chicken-based QSR and fast-casual concepts have received some press as of late for laying down serious growth while so many...

By Mike Baker

July 27, 2017

CSG’s 2017 Farm & Home Retailer Rankings

A few months ago, ahead of the release of the newest edition of Chain Store Guide’s Home Center Operators &...

By Mike Baker

July 27, 2017

CSG’s 2017 Farm & Home Retailer Rankings

A few months ago, ahead of the release of the newest edition of Chain Store Guide’s Home Center Operators &...

By superadmin

July 26, 2017

Commercial Space Needed: Beauty Brands on the Move

This month, the Chain Store Guide research team queried the Leading Chain Tenants database to look at the health-and-beauty vertical...

By Mike Baker

July 26, 2017

CSG Apparel Retailer Rankings

Here at Chain Store Guide, Senior Research Editor Natasha Perry is wrapping up work on the 2018 Apparel Specialty Stores...

By Mike Baker

July 24, 2017

Mapping PetSmart’s Growth after Chewy Acquisition

In May, PetSmart shelled out $3.35 billion dollars to acquire online pet retailer Chewy.com in perhaps the largest ecommerce acquisition...

By Mike Baker

July 24, 2017

Summer of Lidl: Opening Wave Hits the East Coast

Europe’s largest discount grocery retailer is officially open for business in the US, two years after establishing its US headquarters...

By Mike Baker

June 30, 2017

Quest and Walmart to Trial In-Store Labs

On Monday, Walmart and Quest Diagnostics announced a partnership with a goal expanding both companies’ access to healthcare consumers. In...

By Mike Baker

June 28, 2017

Exclusive: Another Month’s Worth of New Tenants

We’ve had great responses from our readers, clients and subscribers concerning April and May’s content (Restaurant Growth Chains and New...

By Mike Baker

June 28, 2017

rue21, Macy’s & More: Charting 3,600+ Closings

We received more feedback for this March Exclusive than we have for any other apparel-focused piece in the last year....

By Mike Baker