Although attendance is markedly down from the heights reached in 2007 and 2008, the mood of the annual ICSC RECon is far from morbid. According to ICSC, more than 30,000 people have registered for the event, although most attendees on the floor...

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I've been tweeting as regularly as I can from the ICSC RECon show floor. You can see my tweets here. Here I'll provide some observations on what the first full day of the show was like...

It's been a long day. But ICSC's RECon has just begun. ...