Social Media Ideas for Retail And Leisure

What High-Street Retailers Can Learn from Omnichannel Leisure Brands

Lately, there’s been a debate about whether retail’s future is physical or digital. Many believe it’s digital due to high streets slowly disappearing, but what if it’s both? The br...

White Rose Shopping Centre is driving local economic growth

Landsec, owner of one of the UK’s leading retail destination portfolios, has released its annual social and economic impact report revealing how White Rose Shopping Centre and Trin...

The Rise of Retail Tourism: What Hotels Can Learn From Shopper Behaviour

Hotels can use shopping behaviour as a signal of guest intent, applying lessons from retail tourism to improve anticipatory service, staff training, and local partnerships.

Retail Has Forgotten the Power of Showmanship

Retail has always been measured in hard outcomes: sales, footfall, basket size, frequency and margin. So, when people talk about “entertainment” in retail, it can sound like a dist...

Shelf Discovery: Is Retail the Next Frontier for Guest Experience?

Skyscanner data shows 39% of travellers visit local grocery stores while travelling, prompting hotels to rethink neighbourhood engagement through curated food maps, minibar localis...

Best Virtual Data Rooms for Retail M&A and Acquisitions in 2026

Retail deals move fast and touch a lot of moving parts at once. A single acquisition might involve hundreds of store leases, a supply chain running through a dozen vendors, and a l...

Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Retail/Restaurant Outlook

How Aerial Visuals Help Retail Developments Tell a Stronger Site Story

Ask any retail designer where the customer experience begins and you’ll rarely hear “at the shopfront.” It begins further back — at the turn off the main road, the first glimpse of...

Worth the weight: FACEGYM continues UK expansion with signing at Redical’s Victoria Leeds

Victoria Leeds, owned and operated by Redical, has announced that facial fitness brand FACEGYM has signed for its second standalone studio in the UK outside of London, representing...

Merrion Centre announces 'new flagship venue' at Leeds shopping centre

'We’ve always championed businesses that bring something unique to the city centre'

Study reveals Edinburgh City Centre’s luxury shopping ranking

Luxury retail remains a key part of the UK’s high streets, with shoppers drawn to destinations that offer strong retail choices, premium brands, and attractive leisure experiences....

The Big Four Recession Indicators: Real Retail Sales

Destination Retail Is Redefining Luxury’s Summer Playbook

Luxury’s biggest summer trend isn’t a pop-up. Destination Retail is turning beach clubs into immersive brand worlds where hospitality, shopping and social influence converge.

CR Land: Wuxi MixC Mall / Ippolito Fleitz Group

With 360 shops, event spaces, a cinema, a food court, a rooftop garden and a Riverside Market that extends into the outside space, the Wuxi MixC Mall offers a diverse spectrum of a...

Why is Selling Leisure so Hard?

The global leisure economy is projected to grow from $5.5T to $9.57T, but operators face structural sales challenges rooted in consumer psychology, optional spending, and infinite...

Trafford Centre strengthens premium retail offer with arrival of international menswear brand Suitsupply

Trafford Centre has announced that international menswear retailer Suitsupply will open a new store at the destination in spring/summer 2027, further strengthening its premium fash...

Maximising floor space profitability with high-turnover consumable goods

Retail square footage is expensive, and dead stock kills margins. Discover why shifting a portion of your open-to-buy budget toward high-turnover, sensory consumables is the smarte...

Redevco welcomes Waitrose to Chelmer Village

Redevco’s Chelmer Village Retail Park in Chelmsford has been selected for Waitrose’s newest store, marking a significant milestone for both Waitrose and the scheme’s owner, Redevco...

White Rose Shopping Centre set to welcome 'biggest and best' new opening

It is the latest in a number of big openings at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds

Virgin Atlantic Holidays lands at Battersea Power Station with new London flagship store

Virgin Atlantic Holidays is expanding its retail network into London with the opening of a new flagship store at Battersea Power Station, marking a major milestone in the brand’s r...

A Resilient Retail Market

Retail remains stable in the first quarter of 2026 amid regional pressures. Qatar’s retail real estate market remained broadly stable during the first quarter (Q1) of 2026 despite...

Activate launches into Harlequin with a regional debut

Hertfordshire’s leading retail and leisure destination, Harlequin Watford, which is owned and managed by SGS UK Retail, has announced that the immersive gaming concept, Activate, h...

A shopping destination once home to M&S and Nike is getting a new lease of life

A once-bustling shopping destination is being brought back to life. Festival Park in Ebbw Vale could be undergoing a transformation thanks to one family.

Top 8 Retail Sectors that Will Boom in the Next 5 Years

Based on recent reports and analyses, the retail industry is being reshaped by a number of powerful trends. Predicting the next market surge is a complex task given the speed of g...