- Back-to-School Ad Campaigns Start Jarringly Early as Marketers Seek Tight Budgets: Though we hear this every year, this does seem a bit earlier than usual. Are you ready to kick in your back-to-school plans? (Advertising Age)
- Kors Designs for Moms Swapping $125 Jeans With Daughters: Millennials living at home leads to millennials shopping with Mom. (Bloomberg)
- More Mall of Asia-like projects for merged SM units: SM Prime has big plans for shopping centers in major cities. (Rappler)
- Mormon-Backed Mall Breathes Life into Salt Lake City: A feel-good story of commercial success. (New York Times)
- The death and rebirth of the mall. You don’t drive there, you live there: As cities move away from cars, people move into their malls. (The Globe & Mail)
- Craft beer chains bring buzz to shopping centers: The new, big trend in booze is doing good work for malls. (Shopping Centers Today)
- Consumers remain optimistic: Australian consumer confidence is doing okay—on the rise, but still in a bit of a slump. (Inside Retail)
- A shift in shopping center development: The recession days of redevelopment are coming to an end as new development returns. (Herald Tribune)
- Warmer weather helps boost retail sales: A long, cold spring was a bad time for retail, but summer’s helping to make up for it. (Guardian)
- U.S. Retailers Offer Safety Plan for Bangladeshi Factories: The American plan that may not be as strong as the European accord. (New York Times)
- In Russia, Checkout Counter Check You: Emotion-recognition software allows one cosmetics chain to react to shoppers’ facial expressions for custom deals. (Fast Company)
- Jerusalem shopping mall at center of culture war in Israel: Targeting your community can be a challenge, but what if your community is against your very existence? (Public Radio International)
- Developers trying to revive Eastside shopping centers: Mixed-use development may be more popular by the year, but it hasn’t found much of a hold in suburban, neighborhood centers. Here’s one that’s giving it a go. (Seattle Times)
- NRF responds to retail jobs being on the up-and-up: Job numbers are looking good for US retail, and Matthew Shay discusses how much further they have to go. (Retailing Today)
- Christmas Candy Stockpiled in July as Aussie Slump Looms: Australian retailers prepare for Christmas before the dollar drops any further. (Bloomberg)
- Six months ago Langney Shopping Centre looked like this – now Tesco is set to open: A roof collapse took the center out before Christmas, and now it’s almost ready to return. (Eastbourne Herald)
