Retail
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Wawa vs. Sheetz intensifies as politics gets involved
The famed rivalry between Wawa and Sheetz has intensified after politics got involved with the convenience-store chains donating to opposing campaigns for the governor of Pennsylvania, write Holly Otterbein and Chris Brennan for the Philadelphia Inquirer. According to campaign records released last week, Wawa donated $10,000 to Scott Wagner, the Republican businessman who is running…
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King of Prussia store one of the hundreds of Mattress Firm stores to close
There’s no rest for the weary — or at least for troubled retail mattress stores. Mattress Firm plans to close up to 700 stores over the next few months as part of a plan to offload debt and repay creditors. The announcement came just hours after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in…
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King of Prussia Town Center does ‘experiential’ shopping right
Going to a department store, looking at things you either need or don’t need, or kind of just want, no longer satisfies today’s busy shopper. Today’s busy shopper needs more. Today’s busy shopper needs to have an experience while picking out a pair of slacks. While waiting for a coworker, (Julia) Monaghan, 27, popped into…
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King of Prussia Town Center brings downtown feel to the suburbs
King of Prussia Town Center offers more than shopping. With outdoor fountains, happy hours, and yoga and and painting classes, the Center brings a downtown-Philly vibe to the suburbs, writes Ellie Silverman at philly.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] As some brick-and-mortar retailers struggle, there are indications that the center, which opened in booming Upper Merion Township in 2016,…
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Boscov’s continues to thrive while other department stores struggle.
The office of Al Boscov no longer serves as home base of the store’s founder. It now serves as a conference room in the Exeter Township headquarters. But the shadow of this iconoclast, who earned the loyalty of governors and bargain-hunters alike, still looms large. “One of the things I learned was not to try…
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Zerns Farmers Market, Gilbertsville, calls it quits after a century
Zerns Farmers Market in Gilbertsville, founded almost 100 years ago, will close at the end of the month unless it can find a buyer. Asking price is $4.5 million, writes Katie Park at philly.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Located in a rural pocket of Montgomery County, the 200,000-square-foot building, tucked behind a flower store and a restaurant,…
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Giant Food Stores opens beer and wine eatery in Plymouth Meeting
GIANT Food Stores today opened its 70th Beer & Wine Eatery in Pennsylvania at its Plymouth Meeting store located at 2450 Chemical Road. The Plymouth Meeting store is celebrating the grand opening with beer and wine tastings on Friday, Sept. 7 from 5 – 7 p.m. “We’re excited to open our new Beer & Wine Eatery, which adds…
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Radial, King of Prussia, has high hopes for holidays
Radial, the e-marketing company based in King of Prussia, plans to hire some 800 workers at its Burlington, N.J., fulfillment center to help out with the holiday rush. eMarketer.com, the industry’s trade site, is projecting a profitable year-end season, with online retailers growing by 15 percent, writes Roberto Torres at techical.ly. [uam_ad id=”54865″] The number…
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Philadelphia-area retailers lead the country in growth
It looks like smooth sailing ahead for some of major retailers based in the Philadelphia area. Those shops, which include Five Below, Burlington Coat Factory and Wawa, made the National Retail Federation’s annual list of the nation’s fastest growing 100 companies this year, writes Natalie Kostelni at bizjournals.com. [uam_ad id=”54865″] Five Below, which had 625…
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New tenants will make visiting Plymouth Meeting Mall a hands-on experience
Forget new lighting, new pathways and updated interior designs. Those things probably won’t lure consumers away from the ease and access of online shopping and into a shopping mall. And if there’s one thing that owner-operator PREIT has proven in its robust transformation Plymouth Meeting Mall is that a successful reincarnation doesn’t happen overnight. The dramatic…
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King of Prussia Mall presents a touch of Van Gogh
Shoppers at the King of Prussia Mall their spiritual sides at the new mini Van Gogh Museum located, as befits great art, between the upscale icons Lord & Taylor and Neiman Marcus. The museum features full-sized, three-dimensional replicas of nine of the Dutch master’s most famous paintings, writes Ellie Silverman at philly.com . [uam_ad id=”54865″]…
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PREIT positioning Plymouth Meeting Mall to meet the future
Plymouth Meeting Mall will soon be back to full capacity, thanks to a transformation from traditional big box stores. Malls across the country have been struggling as major retailers, once the anchors of these shopping meccas, have been shuttering store fronts at a record pace. PREIT announced the next phase of Plymouth Meeting Mall’s transformation…
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Stove & Tap lighting up Lansdale
By Rachel Riley When Stove & Tap first joined the neighborhood, the staff had a simple, yet ambitious goal for the restaurant. “We wanted to be everything for the Lansdale community,” said Chef Tim Cunningham. Two years later, they’ve lived up to that mission, and are hoping to be even more as they continue to grow…
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J.C. Penney stocks up on baby merchadise
In a move that aims to fill the hole left in the retail market when Babies R Us shuttered, J.C. Penney will soon carry a line of baby products in house at 500 stores. The retailer announced Thursday that products it previously carried online will appear in stores beginning Aug. 30, write Sari Lesk and Alison Burdo at…
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King of Prussia Mall Brookstone closing its doors
Remember going into this crazy store when you were young and going all googly-eyed over all the gadgets? Well hang on to that memory. Brookstone, the ubiquitous seller of cool but largely unneeded things, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection again and will close the 101 of its stores that are located in malls,…
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Plymouth Meeting Mall will add Dick’s Sporting Good, Edge Fitness and Burlington to its lineup
The space occupied by the now-closed Macy’s will soon be filled — and will some pretty big names. Burlington, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Edge Fitness have signed on to open in the Plymouth Meeting Mall. The space that formerly housed the department store has been available since March 2017, and Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust,…
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Kilwins chocolates company to open location in King of Prussia
A local family plans to open an outpost of Kilwins, a concept that began in 1947 and specializes in chocolate, ice cream, candy and other confections, in King of Prussia. Local operators and owners, the Simpson family, comprising Delaware County natives Gary, and son and daughter-in-law Glen and Sarah, will open a 1,850-square-foot Kilwins at…
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King of Prussia reigns over Center City when it comes to soft goods retail
A few years ago, when it came to considering where to go to buy high-end or luxury items, Center City would be the location of choice. Well, trips to the city are being replaced to jaunts to the suburbs. “If you polled 10 retailers and asked them if they had a store in Philadelphia, I’m…
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