malls

If you think only massive stores offer Black Friday shopping deals, think again. Small shops, boutiques and mom and pops, offer ways to save and snag some unique gifts. At P.O.S.H in Chicago, you won't find doorbusters or deals on electronics, but you will find a well-curated selection of...

Despite the dire warnings about commercial real estate, REITs have been on a roll. And Simon Property Group -- one of the world's largest mall owners -- is now highly favored by some investors who see it as the big winner if economic rebound gains strength.

Changes are afoot at Sears that have some people wondering if the 117-year-old retailer might just put itself out of business. For the first time, consumers can buy Craftsman tools and Die Hard products someplace other than Sears. Sears will license the Die Hard and let other retailers sell the...

Xanadu, the gargantuan New Jersey entertainment and retail complex, could be toast. Less than a year ago, analysts were arguing that the project was "too big to fail," but the state of New Jersey may be considering a move to seize the land as the developer struggles to find new financiers.

Right now you probably use your GPS to get to the mall, rather than find your way around the mall, but Kevin Foreman, CEO of Point Inside,envisions that will change in the near future. The team at Point Inside, which makes a mall navigation app for the iPhone and Android devices, is made up of...

A new free iPhone app, Point Inside, solves almost all of my major annoyances with visiting a big mall: knowing where I am, where the store I want to go to is and how to get there. While malls that could fit inside a shoebox have five directories scattered throughout the small building it seems...

Toys R Us is going to the mall. The giant toy store chain will open a raft of temporary toy stores for the holidays, including more than 80 locations in malls nationwide. The Toys R Us Holiday Express stores will open in early October and close in mid-January. Customers will get all the same...

The battles never seem to let up for the American institution that is the mall. Like everyone else in the retail world, they've got ups and downs with consumer spending to contend with. But then there's the rise of e-commerce and those trendy outdoor shopping plazas -- how's a cavernous complex...

The era of the frugal consumer continues. Yet another tell-tale stat of the restructuring under way in the U.S. economy: consumer spending (or lack thereof) at the nation's malls. The recession and the pull-back in consumer spending is turning malls into ghost towns, according to The Wall Street...

The phrase, "America is over stored" gets bandied about a lot. And there was a lot to indicate that was true, even before everything really hit the fan last fall. And it's all shifted into high gear now, as the Wall Street Journal so thoroughly points out. Brian Florence, co-founder of...