Georgetown Attracts High-End Retail Chains
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The area's mix of retail tenants is changing from mom-and-pop shops to a blend of well-known chains.
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The retailer reports another quarter of double-digit sales growth.
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n the not-so-distant past, the names Burdines, Rich&#39;s, Goldsmith&#39;s, Bon MarchÃ© and Lazarus had a local glory as the emporiums where customers bought their back-to-school clothes and discovered their Mother&#39;s Day presents.
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From the looks of it, retail insiders were busy last week.
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Clothing chains American Eagle Outfitters and Abercrombie & Fitch posted surprisingly strong sales as young people flocked to malls ahead of the new school year.
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The sales numbers are encouraging as this outdoors retailer expands.
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Stoop sales have become big business in some Brooklyn neighborhoods.
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New Yorkâs chic shopping districts seem to be teeming these days with foreign tourists taking advantage of the weak dollar. Foreign retailers are now joining them.
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Some retailers are benefiting from the rash of hurricanes.
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Shopping at your neighborhood &quot;dollar store,&quot; you can likely find bargains on backscratchers, potholders, and key chains.
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The firm is bringing its style of banking to new high-growth markets.
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JUST AS THEY pioneered modern escalators to carry crowds of shoppers upward, department stores encouraged their customers' social mobility. The big stores grew up with a burgeoning American middle class that they provided with its tastes, habits -- and consumer goods.
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High-powered profit growth has investors dipping into this mall-based confectioner.
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Anticipating Harvard University's expansion in Allston, the owner of the Sports Depot pub-style restaurant last week bought longtime neighbor Able Rug's real estate -- a 19th-century slap-dash warehouse-style building and a parking lot -- for $1.25 million.
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The holidays have been in the bag for this luxury retailer.
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Larger sellers are benefiting from discounts that for the first time in the siteâs history treat high-volume merchants better than mom-and-pop sellers.
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By Corrinne Hess Daily Herald Staff Writer  For most Antioch residents, a proposed major retail development that includes three national big-box stores means not having to leave town for essentials.