Shopping Centers

Do you know where neighborhood crime is happening in your city? Is it near your home or workplace? Residents and businesses in Frisco, Texas, have a way to get answers to all their neighborhood crime questions with an interactive visual tool. Crime Mapping Frisco Residents and…

Payless ShoeSource has announced its plans to close all U.S. stores and wind down its e-commerce activity. With national retailers like Payless ShoeShource announcing closings and bankruptcies, the industry feared vacancy rates would skyrocket. However, real estate research firm…

Shopping centers are full of unique security challenges from vandalism and theft to storefront damage and unwanted activity in the parking lots and garages. In this Catch of the Month video, our security operators spotted a suspect trying to smash the door of a shopping center.

Get Your Complete Guide to Securing Your Shopping Center Property Now. The key to retail success is to have a seamless omnichannel strategy, ensure the shopping center has amenities to attract customers, and minimize vandalism, loitering, dumpster diving, and other factors that…

You've seen them popping up in October, weeks before Halloween. They also show up in plenty of time for Christmas season. These temporary stores are pop-up shops that fill in vacancies at retail centers, shopping mall spaces and kiosks, and shuttered grocery stores and…

Shopping centers are not going away. Still, they need to find ways to generate more revenues, with e-commerce capturing 9 percent of sales per year according to the National Multifamily Housing Council. Fortunately, retail management has two very creative and different ways to…

Think about luxury and economy cars. If you remove the price tag, which would you choose? You most likely will pick the luxury car. Why? Because it offers more. More features, more top-quality materials, more comfort, just more everything. When you're looking for the best…

The good news for retailers is that shrink rates have shrunk from the previous year according to the 2018 National Retail Security Survey. Shrink — the loss of inventory due to theft, error, fraud, or shoplifting — costs 1.33 percent of sales, which totals $46.8 billion. That…