CONSUMER AND RETAIL TRENDS

• RSR Research Report Reveals Retailer Priorities for Going Green
• Small Food Stores are Big with Busy Consumers, TNS Retail Forward Reports
• Eye on the Customer: DDI report on neuromarketing, in-store observation technologies
• Can Stand-Alone Malls Survive?
• Gesture-based Interactive Store Window
• TNS Retail Forward Forecast: Tesco's Fresh & Easy—A Top U.S. Supermarket Player by 2015
• STORES Magazine Report: Little is the New Big for Food Retailing
• Global Retail Spotlight: India
• Top 10 Retail Trends in New Zealand
• Digital Signage Trends from InfoComm 07
• Independent Retailers in Small Towns (pdf)
• College Stores a Key Portal to College-Age Market
• Global Trends: A Visual Journey
• Personal Picks: Industry Leaders Share Favorite Retail Design Ideas
• David Milne's Personal Picks: Pop-Up Retail
• Faith Popcorn Report: New 'Networked' Consumer More Fluid, Intimate
• Global Innovations: Case Studies of Trend-Setting Retailers Worldwide
• What’s Compelling and Selling in Store!

Pop-Up Store Watch

• May ?-June 5, 2008, Toronto: Look Fab Moments
• March 14-April 3, 2008, Santa Monica, Calif.: K-Swiss
• Oct. 2-Nov. 10, 2007, NYC: SKY360° by Delta
• Late August-Nov. 1, 2007, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach and Chester, Va.: Totally Halloween
• Aug. 17-19, 2007, Lowlands, Holland (and other dates and locations): Wrangler Laundromat
• Ongoing, New York Locations: Treats Truck