Subject: Retail Trade

• Dallas Is So In Fashion

  April 4, 2007

• Statute Stomp

  August 25, 2006

• Virgin No More

  April 27, 2006

• Gosh, That Street Corner Could Really Use Another Bank Branch

  December 27, 2007

• Woot: Now Part of "the American Vernacular." Also: Makin' Lots of Money.

  August 22, 2008

• Switching Scenes: Or, Will Fort Worth's Loss Turn Into Dallas's Gain?

  August 27, 2008

• Alas, Not Even Sarah Palin Could Keep Neimans From Losing Money

  November 6, 2008

• Will 2009 Be the Year Valley View Center Goes Bye-Bye? Hope Not.

  Dallas's real estate market in 2008 in a nutshell: OK, then not. Which is more or less the analysis offered by GlobeSt.com today as it sizes up the year that was and sneaks a peek at the year that will be or won't, depending on folks' fortunes. Among the prophets lined up for the piece are folks from CB Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle, who figure the market most likely to suffer a blow in 2009 is the retail sector, no surprise there.[CB Richard Ellis] research manager Steve Triolet says a l

  December 24, 2008

• Buzz

  January 19, 1995

• Neimans Had a Lousy Christmas

  Flickr photo: Wednesday181 It was but a month ago that Neiman Marcus president and CEO Burt Tansky insisted that sooner than later, the "aspirational shopper" and "loyal customer" would once again stroll through the store's doors with money to burn. At the time, the Dallas-based high-end retailer was reporting an 84-percent plunge in first-quarter FY2009 profits. And in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company was significantly more pragmatic than its optimistic bo

  January 8, 2009

• Short Circuited City

  Wrote the real-estatin' Friend of Unfair Park who alerted us to the news of Circuit City's imminent demise today, "Getting ugly out there." Indeed: Just two months after Circuit City included its N. Central Expressway and Meadow Road location as one the 155 "underperforming" stores being shuttered, the chain today is seeking bankruptcy court approval to "close its remaining 567 U.S. stores and sell all its merchandise."The company says it will be putting out of work "more than 30,000 employees,"

  January 16, 2009

• Accidental Deaths

  July 11, 1996

• LiL' Things, big problems

  December 25, 1997

• Slipped discs

  January 14, 1999

• Best music browsing mecca

  September 21, 2000

• Best women's re-sale clothing

  September 21, 2000

• Best place to buy candles

  September 21, 2000

• Blind Man's Bluff

  December 28, 2000

• Buzz

  May 24, 2001

• Buzz

  May 31, 2001

• Best Place to Wax On

  September 20, 2001

• Best Strip Mall

  September 20, 2001

• Various Artists

  October 3, 2002

• Best Place to Buy Sweet Jeans

  September 25, 2003

• Best Furniture Store

  September 25, 2003

• New York State Of Mind

  February 5, 2009

• Consume, Consume, Consume

  November 27, 2008

• Chaos Control Draws Punks of All Ages to Downtown Denton

  But can the new venue weather business without liquor sales?

  November 20, 2008

• Seasons Savings

  November 20, 2008

• Reikyu Sushi is a Hip Hibachi

  January 24, 2008

• Mom Jeans

  September 6, 2007

• SuperSore

  The sins of Wal-Mart get the documentary treatment

  December 1, 2005

• Best Place for Cheap Kids Clothing

  Old Navy

  October 14, 2004

• Best Place to Buy Comic Books...Sorry, Graphic Novels

  Titan Comics

  October 14, 2004

• On the Download

  Is the online music store the Apple of digital music's eye? It should be.

  July 17, 2003

• When Online Got Off Base

  Or: How Mark Cuban would have--and could have?--saved the music biz

  April 11, 2002

• Empire Strikes Back

  The record industry counters piracy in the courts and on CDs. But has it gone too far?

  December 6, 2001

• Industrial Evolution

  The record industry crippled Napster with litigation. But has it made things worse for itself?

  November 1, 2001

• With Friends Like These...

  CompUSA and Latin America's richest man get a $450 million lesson from a Dallas jury: Friendship and business don't mix.

  April 5, 2001

• Ransom Notes

  Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

  November 9, 2000

• Pain & Ink

  Creatively, comic books are healthier than they've ever been. So why is everyone rushing to bury the industry?

  August 10, 2000

• Take a nap

  Maximum Records lines up to lead the fight to keep Napster alive. Oh yeah, and to promote its bands too.

  August 3, 2000

• Cyber bore

  The DotComGuy gets loads of publicity just like this for being a zero

  May 11, 2000

• Hash Over

  Drink up

  February 17, 2000

• Penney pinched

  Falling sales and claims of sexist, insular management plague Plano-based J.C. Penney. Can a woman -- from Wal-Mart of all places -- turn the troubled chain around?

  November 25, 1999

• Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

  Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incense or cigarette smoke. You could hear the music coming out from 100 yards away. Most of the formative moments of my life happened inside a record store. My grandfather bought my first album, Sgt. Pepp

  April 17, 2009

• Turns Out, All It Takes to Kill Dallas's Convention Business Is a Little Swine Flu Scare

  Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a "Future Connect leadership development conference" on May 4-6, followed by a "MARKETECHNICS® technology event" May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at the Dallas Convention Center, and "show organizers had estimated about 3,500 food retailers, wholesalers and suppliers would have attended the event." Alas, the FMI's president and CEO

  April 30, 2009

• Food For Thought 5.6.09

  "Speculation that Starbucks is losing retail market share to competitors has been grossly exaggerated. Our customers are not trading down." (Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks, announcing lower pricing on certain items in some markets to combat slower sales. The Seattle-based chain reported a 77 percent drop in earnings for the first quarter, as same-store sales tumbled eight percent. They registered declines in number of customer transactions and value per transaction, as well. Reported by N

  May 6, 2009

• RadioShack's About to Get an Extreme Makeover. At Least, the Name Is. Kind Of.

  ​That's right -- get ready to call the Fort Worth-based chain "The Shack" starting Thursday. The name change ain't official: It'll still be known by its more formal and familiar moniker. But according to Lee Applbaum, RadioShack's chief marketing officer, well, just forget about that whole "Radio" part of the name if you would, pretty please. "When a brand becomes a friend, it often gets a nickname -- take FedEx or Coke, for example," he says in today's press relese. "Our customers, associates

  August 3, 2009

• Valley View Center Loses One More Tenant, as Borders Closes the Book on Waldenbooks

  ​A Friend of Unfair Park sends word: Borders Group is removing from its shelf 200 Waldenbooks locations across the U.S. -- including, as you can tell from the headline, the longstanding Valley View Center location, which opened in October 1999. Employees there only found out about the closure, scheduled for January, yesterday. Per the list of closings, the Borders Express in Collin Creek Mall will also vanish after the holidays, as will the Waldenbooks in Ridgmar Mall in Fort Worth.The closing

  November 6, 2009