Retail majors in rightsizing mode

IN A bid to maximise sales per square feet, Indias frontline retailers are increasingly looking at ways to restructure their stores.

Pantaloon sees future in Value Retail

RETAIL MAJOR TO SPIN OFF BIG BAZAAR & FOOD BAZAAR INTO A NEW ENTITY

Falabella Hypermarkets to Upgrade POS at 200+ Stores

Falabella S.A.C.I., a Latin American retailer with more than 200 supermarkets, department stores and home improvement stores throughout the region, plans to install a new point-of-sale in more than 1,700 POS lanes in its Supermarket Division in Chile and Peru as part of its push for state-of-the-art technology throughout its operations.
The retailer will install the [...]

Tesco’s new supermarket to minimise energy consumption

A new supermarket has been built that uses half as much fuel as similarly-sized buildings built in the past.
The new Tesco in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, has a combined heat and power plant which runs on sustainably sourced natural fuel, which contributes to the store using 48 per cent less fuel than one built in 2006.
Its [...]

SunEdison to Install up to 259 MW of Solar on Shopping Centers

SunEdison, a North American solar energy services provider, recently announced a solar distributed generation program with Developers Diversified Realty, a Cleveland-based real estate investment trust (REIT) actively engaged in the development and management of shopping centers.
According to the companies, SunEdison has the rights to deploy solar energy systems at more than 200 shopping centers, covering [...]

Are shopping malls losing the game to stand alone stores?

They epitomise America’s consumerist society and have contributed terms like ‘mall hopping’ and ‘mall rats’ to popular lexicon. But are shopping malls in the US losing the game to stand alone stores?