Category: Research

January 20, 2021
Research Issue 47

How to Save Today’s Mall

How to Save Today's Mall
Author Lee Peterson EVP, Thought Leadership & Marketing WD Partners Barrie Scardina Head of Retail for the Americas Cushman & Wakefield On Cyber Monday, the retail industry achieved a new milestone–the single largest e-commerce day on record with $10.8B in sales! According to a report from Creditntell, this represented over a 200% increase from 2016...

January 20, 2021
Research Issue 47

Dark Restaurants: A Case Study in Innovation

Dark Restaurants: A Case Study in Innovation
This piece was written by Nicole Rupersburg and originally appeared on the RestaurantSpaces blog. What is the restaurant of the future going to look like? Right now, quite frankly, it’s impossible to say. What we know for certain is that, at least in the near-term, the restaurant of the immediate future is going to look...

November 18, 2020
Research Issue 46

Can Customers Predict Sales? Answer: Duh!

Authors John Bajorek EVP, Strategic Growth & Innovation WD Partners Tara Yavorsky VP, Marketing WD Partners We’d be remiss to not have some sort of “look back on 2020” article in this year’s Holiday issue of Wayfind. Especially given the WTF kind of year this one has been. Phew! The pandemic has done a number...