Katherine Field from Chain Store Age recently interviewed experts from Pitney Bowes Business Insight.
With expansion slowing, the buzz word for 2010 is “optimization.”
In the February issue (“Focus on Site Selection Trends,”), I talked with a panel of retail real-estate experts to explore just what to expect in a year that has all the markings of a transition period of economic ups and downs.
My panel of experts all predicted that site optimization — making the most of existing real estate — rather than new store growth would be the retail game plan for 2010.
Recently, I also talked with a trio of executives from Troy, N.Y.-based Pitney Bowes Business Insight about the state of retail real estate in 2010. This is what they had to say: <!–more–>
