Newsletter: Specs Talk

04/02/2013 - 5:01pm
Ahold USA adds six more LEED stores to its fleet

Ahold USA, a division of Netherlands-based Royal Ahold, said six newly built stores had received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

04/02/2013 - 3:45pm
SPECS wraps up 49th annual show; partners with RetailROI

Store development and facilities professionals from some of the nation’s biggest retail and restaurant chains gathered in Dallas, Texas, to attend Chain Store Age’s 49th annual SPECS Conference, March 17-20, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel.

04/02/2013 - 11:00am
Polaroid launches retail concept; 10 stores planned by yearend

Polaroid has thrown its hat in the retail ring, opening its first-ever retail store, in Delray Beach, Fla.

04/01/2013 - 5:45pm
Whole Foods Market to build greenhouse atop Brooklyn store

Whole Foods Market announced that Gotham Greens will be its operating partner in the nation’s first commercial- scale greenhouse farm integrated within a supermarket.

04/01/2013 - 5:37pm
Shoe Carnival Q4 profit slips; on track to open 30 stores in 2013

Shoe Carnival reported that net earnings for the quarter ended Jan. 28 slipped to $3.2 million, compared with $3.3 million in the year-ago period.

04/01/2013 - 5:34pm
Leslie's Swimming Pool to open 48 stores this spring

Leslie’s Poolmart said it will grand-open 15 Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies stores across 10 states on April 5, as part of the company’s plan to open 48 new stores this spring.

04/01/2013 - 3:00pm
Walgreens expanding solar energy initiative to 22 stores in Colorado

Clean-energy provider SolarCity announced it will implement solar systems at 22 Walgreens stores across 14 different cities in Colorado in the coming months, with the first installation completed in Aurora.

04/01/2013 - 11:03am
Aaron's plans 125 stores and 750 retail jobs for 2013

Rental chain Aaron's announced at its 2013 National Managers Meeting in Nashville that the company plans to open 125 stores in 2013 and hire 750 new employees.

04/01/2013 - 10:57am
Dunkin' Donuts to open seven restaurants in northern Utah

Dunkin' Donuts said it has signed a multi-unit store development agreement with existing franchisee Sizzling Donuts to open seven new restaurants in northern Utah.

04/01/2013 - 10:50am
OfficeMax debuts smaller-store prototype targeting small businesses

OfficeMax Inc. announced the unveiling of a new format, OfficeMax Business Solutions Center, in downtown Milwaukee.

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