downtown location in nearly 50 years. The 52,000-sq.-ft. store features the grocer’s first-ever food hall. The venue houses five Cincinnati eateries, a full-service bar and Kroger’s own restaurant concept, Kitchen 1883 Café and Bar. It can accommodate up to 200 customers, with indoor and outdoor seating. … Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. opened a laboratory-styled retail concept, called Modern Retail Collective, at the nation’s largest shopping mall. The store offers retailers the opportunity to work with McKinsey and Mall of America to test new technologies and “discover what’s possible when multiple technologies, analytics and store operations work together to elevate in-store experiences.” It will be refreshed every three to four months with new retail brands, cutting-edge technologies and experiences designed around a theme. Mall of America is providing the retail space as well as its expertise on store design and buildout … Nordstrom’s inventory-free, service-driven and small-sized retail format, Nordstrom Local, made its Big Apple debut, with an 1,800-sq.-ft. outpost on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (photo, right). The offerings include are online order pick-up, fast returns and tailoring, plus styling consultations, handbag and small leather goods repairs and gift wrapping.
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