The next big thing might actually be small. Well, at least smaller than where attention has focused recently in the industrial sector. “I guess first off I should say, we’re in a sector recession ...

A shopper inside a Best Buy store in Union City, California.. Photo: Getty Images Smaller retailers have for decades been up against the long reach and economies of scale that give big box chains ...

Target (TGT), Ulta Beauty (ULTA), and Macy’s (M), among many others, are shifting more of their focus toward small-format stores. Small-format stores are scaled-down versions of big box retail stores ...

The old adage that “everything’s bigger in Texas” gets thrown around a lot. However, that’s not necessarily the case for Walmart as it's testing a small-format store concept in the Dallas-Fort Worth ...

One of the most effective strategies for managing big box store fires is thorough pre-incident planning, going upstream of interventions. Departments should work closely with store management to ...

BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio -- City Council has once again extended a moratorium on the opening of new “small-box” discount stores such as Dollar General and Family Dollar. This time, council has added ...

A retailer that made its name online as an e-commerce-only company, Wayfair just made an entry into physical retail with a mega-store that could be on the cusp of a couple new retail trends, or at the ...

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several years, you've probably noticed the often-fierce battles that are being waged between big-box retailers and local communities—from small ...

Two of the biggest names in big-box retail have boosted their bets on a growing trend for bricks-and-mortar sales: smaller stores. Best Buy and Macy’s this week announced plans to add small-format ...