Party City will have about 90% fewer Halloween pop up stores than last year because the coronavirus pandemic has made many traditional Halloween celebrations more frightening than usual. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised that you avoid door-to-door trick or treating and...
According to AP News, the two Toys R Us stores that opened in November 2019 were part of a small U.S. revival effort by the iconic chain. According to Tru Kids, which was formed in 2018 when it purchased Toys R Us intellectual...
Walgreens will receive its first COVID-19 vaccine doses on Dec. 21. They will then begin giving shots to residents of nursing homes and workers at more than 35,000 long-term care facilities during the days leading to Christmas. Walgreens will hire 25,000 Americans to administer...
The COVID era holiday shopping will be unlike anything that modern consumers and retailers have ever experienced. U.S. retailers have begun to downplay the importance of Black Friday with deals that begin in October and continue through December. Instead, they are focusing on...
As parents plan for their first school return in almost two years, the back-to-school season is over. Marketers who achieved success had a plan to capitalize on the surge and help them gain market share. There are many lessons that brands can learn...
While there is still uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic‘s impact, one thing is certain. The 2020 holiday season was an anomaly. This year will be different. According to eMarketer in the United States, holiday retail sales are projected to rise 2.7 percent to...
Sears will close its last Illinois-based department shop on November 14, when it moves out of the Woodfield Mall location. Transfomco is the parent company of Sears, and the real estate manager for Woodfield Mall, and it stated CNBC that it would...
According to Deloitte, holiday retail sales will rise between 7 and 9 percent by 2021 according to their annual holiday retail forecast. According to Deloitte, holiday sales will reach $1.28 trillion to $1.3 billion in the November-January timeframe. Deloitte predicts that ecommerce sales will increase...
Retailers were forced to change at unprecedented speeds by the COVID-19 pandemic. This included a shift to digital and stores being forced to close their doors. The global lockdowns exacerbated the gap between physical and online retail. In the U.S., around 20,000 to...
It is easy to see how powerful gaming’s #2 (love-building) advantages (i.e. Because most people would argue that the storytelling (#1) is still much weaker than it should be, immersion, agency and interactivity are all powerful advantages of gaming’s love-building (#2). You might...
