The living dead drew consumers to malls and movie theaters last month as horror flick “Dawn Of The Dead” raked in $27.3 million during its first weekend at the box office. The gory production is a remake of a 1979 George Romero film about cannibal...

The evolution of Chicago's Medinah Temple into one of Bloomingdale's largest standalone Home + Furnishings stores is a retailing success story that has proved a winning combination for Chicago — and chain's parent, Federated Department Stores Inc...

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Landlords are bracing for Target Corp.'s possible sale of Marshall Field's and Mervyn's, which could bring the retailer a total of $4 billion. It could also bring some mall owners headaches and others, opportunities...

Mills Corp. is taking its shoppertainment concept one step further with the introduction of a new amusement park tenant at its Sawgrass Mills property in Sunrise, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale. Called Wannado City, the 140,000-square-foot interactive...

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Bankrupt footwear conglomerate Footstar is seeking a buyer for its 353 Footaction stores, primarily because shoe giant Nike won't commit to supplying the retailer with its shoes anymore. Footstar owes Nike $19.4 million. The West Nyack, N.Y.-based...

Southern grocery chain Piggly Wiggly, which operates 116 stores, plans to install Pay By Touch systems in four of its South Carolina locations this July. The system will allow customers to pay using a finger scan linked to their bank account...

The big dogs control the fat cat malls in the Golden State...

Mall legend Edward J. DeBartolo's son is taking the family business in an open-air direction. Prudential Real Estate Investors signed a $250 million deal with his Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.'s Tampa-based company, DeBartolo Property Group, to build...