Are store closings and retailers shrinking footprints leading to the downfall of the retail industry? Don’t bet on it. T-Mobile and JLL Retail’s CEO Greg Maloney weigh-in along with ICSC’s Jesse Tron who says, closing underperforming stores is business as usual for many retailers during this time. It’s nothing more than the retail life cycle in action. Last year the industry added a net of over 1,000 new retail establishments.

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Building global e-commerce market share? Know your destination. A retailer’s growth will follow a different path in developing countries, versus mature markets. According to eMarketer, worldwide business-to-consumer ecommerce sales will increase by 20.1% this year to reach $1.5 trillion. For the first time, consumers in Asia are expected to spend more on e-commerce purchases than those… Read More

#TBT to 1994, when the U.S. retail industry was booming with new ground-up developments, and the team had two grand openings and five re-grand openings.  Nearly 20  years later, almost all the folks in this photo are all still in the retail industry.

Follow Greg on Twitter at @Greg_Maloney

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