Retail Traffic

When Wal-Mart launched its 12,000-sq.-ft. to 15,000-sq.-ft. Express format last year, the smaller stores were supposed to serve as Wal-Mart’s ticket into the urban markets the retailer found so difficult to crack in the past. Yet with the closing...

In spite of landlords reporting improving leasing conditions in the retail sector, the number of announced store closings in the first half of this year increased almost 34 percent compared to the first half of 2011, to a total of 2,329...