Industry Headlines: August 26th
- Magistrates: Westfield shoplifters should face shopping centre courtroom: Pop-up shops were just the start. Soon, shopping centers may be home to pop-up courts for petty crime. (Fulham Chronicle, UK)
- The Benefits of Scenting Public Places: Scent branding can be controversial, but there are ways to use it that are unequivocally positive. (GOOD, US)
- Groupon Launches National Deal With Gap, Selling 10 Groupons A Second: For the first time, an international retailer offers an international coupon through Groupon. It was a huge success, but what’s the benefit for Gap? (Tech Crunch, US)
- Retailers Are Fighting Back Against CAM Charge Errors: Common area maintenance is a topic retailers are increasingly concerned with. (Retail Traffic, US)
- South African Retail Sales Climb as FIFA World Cup Tourists Fuel Spending: The World Cup did wonders for South African retail (Bloomberg, US)
- ‘Trust’: the new focus: Customers are looking for connections with service brands. (Inside Retailing, AU)
- Facebook Explores ‘Places’: Facebook launches a new mobile check-in service in the US. It’s off to a bad start with privacy critics, but with Facebook’s user base, it could be big. (Brandweek, US)
- NREL, IKEA Team Up to Monitor Geothermal Energy for Commercial Buidings: IKEA’s experiments with geothermal may help future developers with valuable data. (Scientific American, US)
- Big-box competition forces malls to shape up: Advice for shopping centers that are suffering. (Globe and Mail, CA)
- Nordstrom Links Online Inventory to Real World: Retailers find ways to combine online and brick and mortar efforts. (New York Times, US)
- Finding: Affluent Moms Shop Like Everyone Else: Shopping choices for moms are more dictated by children than by wealth. (Media Post, US)
Courtroom One Gavel, a cc licensed flickr photo shared by lambdachialpha
