Retail
People protesting the death of George Floyd have shifted the position from the Country Club Plaza area to City Hall, in Downtown Kansas City. In the wake of protests in Kansas City due to the death of George Floyd, the…
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In the wake of the problems that AMC Theatres is facing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, other theater chains are feeling the same pain and are worried about how to reopen safely. Other chains are facing similar problems throughout the…
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Retailers are increasingly being sued due to missed rent payments that stem from their closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest high-profile case is against apparel chain Gap Inc. by Simon Property Group, the country's largest mall owner. For its…
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John Sweeney is a brokerage executive with Reece Commercial in Kansas City. Q. What’s your sense of how bankruptcies by major retailers will affect the market here? A. It will affect landlords and employment most of all. There remain plenty…
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Dick's Sporting Goods, which has seven locations in the metro area, saw same-store sales drop in its first quarter by nearly 30 percent. Management said that the same-store-sales drop of 29.5 percent was driven primarily by the spread of COVID-19.…
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Malls around the country have been struggling for a while, due to challenges from e-commerce and competition from mass-merchandise chains. Meanwhile, several around the metro area, including Oak Park Mall, in Overland Park, and the Legends Outlets, in Kansas City,…
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For the fourth night in a row there were protests around the Country Club Plaza over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of the police last week. And for another night, police declared the protests an…
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Protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis last week turned violent Saturday and yesterday in Kansas City. The demonstrators were initially gathered in the Country Club Plaza on Saturday afternoon, were diverted to the Westport area…
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After a hairstylist served a customer who was an asymptomatic carrier of COVID-19, Beauty Brands has closed a store in the Northland for cleaning. Read more at KCTV.
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Costco Wholesale Corp. saw net sales rise by 7.3 percent, to just under $36.5 billion, while same-store sales in the United States rose 5.9 percent. However, net income did drop year over year, to $838 million from $906 million. Costco…
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