May 25, 2024 A year ago [has it been that long already?] we commenced a series on the state of the economy. We started with examining Americaâs labor shortage, a…
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November 9, 2023 Friends & Colleagues, This month we’re mixing it up a bit. Below you will find snippets, tidbits really, that help us to make sense of our current…
November 9, 2023 This Saturday, November 11, Americans will observe Veteranâs Day at a time when the U.S. is investing billions of dollars to support our allies in Ukraine and…
September 7, 2023 Data: FRED, BLS; Chart: Simran Parwani/Axios America faces significant headwinds for labor, including demographics (Boomer retirements), immigration, and both Covid and non-Covid excess deaths over the…
May 31, 2023 Our series on the current state of the economy started with a discussion of Americaâs labor shortage, a significant driver in price increases and inflation, followed by commentary…
March 21, 2023 When we started this series, we promised a discussion on if/when/how American consumers would dial back their spending. In teasing that second post, we had a…
February 28, 2023 We recently presented at the Young Presidentâs Organization Retail Property Symposium in Phoenix. Top of mind for the group was how the American Consumer is adapting…
WeinPlus is excited to welcome Essential Growth Properties to the WeinPlus family. After working closely with Nick Hodge at The Kroger Co., we look forward to working together again…
[Note: We took the summer off from the newsletter, no I didnât unsubscribe you, thank you to those that noticed and asked for more!] Consumer spending drives the American…
June 2, 2022 We are in the midst of an extreme dislocation between spending on goods and services brought on by the Covid-19 pandemicâthat much is fact. But three…
Propmodo Nick Pipitone March 9, 2022 If weâre looking at the effects of the broken supply chain on commercial real estate, itâs best to start at the beginning….
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, businesses that were formed in 2009 had a 23% failure rate in their first year, half made it to five years, and…
What Worked in 2021 as the Industry Heads into 2022: Selling Fresh Food at Economy of Scale Shopping Centers Today by Joel Groover January 12, 2022 Itâs hard to predict…
Weâre days away from Christmas, the busiest days for retail spending are upon us, and even for those of us that track this data regularly, there are conflicting indicators…
We started this series with an Origin Story, a little ditty about how we got to where we are today. Sure, we threw the customer under the bus a…
Everywhere you turn someone is talking about the record number of ships docked off the coast of Long Beach or the inability to find a car within $10k of…
5-15% of grocery sales will be online within 10 years. That was the consensus back in September 2019 when I joined a panel on omnichannel retailing at the Bank…
A Delta Variant Q&A with Dr. David A. Wein Tuesday, August 10, 2021 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical…
June 21, 2021 USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Rachel Elias Wein joins Richard K. Green to discuss the retail sectors returning as states continue to reopen and vaccine rates…
Scroll through my friend Yarden Dananâs Instagram posts from recent weeks and youâll see pics from concerts, malls and restaurantsâin-person experiences made newly safe by Israelâs rapid rollout of…
SCT, by Joel Groover April 27, 2021 Yarden Danan just bought a new pair of Air Jordans at the Cinema City Rishon LeZion enclosed mall. The 24-year-old has been to…
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani…
Company Release –Â 02/10/2021 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: PINE) (the âCompanyâ) today announced the appointment of Rachel Elias Wein to…
ULI 2021 Trends Virtual Conference February 4, 2021 click image below for video 17 Minutes
St. Pete Catalyst by Margie Manning The number of shopping malls likely will shrink dramatically in the next few years, and the real estate they occupy is expected to take…
Chain Store Age By Marianne Wilson – 12/23/2020 A focus on smaller local stores, more acquisitions of retail companies by non-traditional buyers and an increased focus on wellness are among the top…
By Jessica Binns on December 21st, 2020 [Full Article] If the experts are reading it right, the sun might be setting on sweatpantsâ moment in the spotlight. With coronavirus vaccines…
December 16, 2020 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF…
December 2, 2020Â David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani…
We expect job losses from the COVID-19-induced downturn to mimic patterns from the past. Thatâs not what is happening. Weâve lost 11 million jobs since the start of the…
We’re excited to welcome Walgreens to the WeinPlus family. Walgreens operates over 10,000 assets within retail, supply chain, and office portfolios nation-wide. With 9,300 retail locations in all 50…
David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College of Medicine….
Retail REITs: Grocery Windfall Well-Timed as COVID-19 Accelerates Shift Online; WeinPlus Conference Call Takeaways Todd M. Thomas, CFA / (917) 368-2286 / tthomas@key.com Jordan Sadler / (917) 368-2280 / jsadler@key.com…
The economic impacts of Covid-19 have been felt around the globe and especially in the U.S., where weâve seen spikes in unemployment nationwide. Now imagine youâre on an island…
What if you were starting from scratch as a retailer today? How would you reimagine your offerings and build your portfolio based on todayâs consumer demand, changing preferences, digital…
David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College of Medicine….
The major beauty chains used to drive customers into stores with promises of free product testing and salon services. How will they adapt to a new world? NATIONAL REAL ESTATE…
Is the United States over-retailed? We all know the answer, and itâs easy to point to operators with too many above-market leases and oversized, under-performing stores. But how many retail…
USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, May 27, 2020 Panelist: Stanley Iezman | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American Realty Advisors Panelist: Rachel Elias Wein | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WeinPlus…
Some of the shifts weâre seeing mark an acceleration, others are cyclical, but itâs never as simplistic as a headline. One thing Iâm sure of: Weâre never getting back…
May 14, 2020 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College…
St. Pete Catalyst, By Margie Manning Retail shops opening for the first time today in more than a month donât have to go it alone in figuring out the best…
David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College of Medicine [heâs…
USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, April 15, 2020 Panelist: Stanley Iezman | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American Realty Advisors Panelist: Rachel Elias Wein | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WeinPlus…
April 9, 2020 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College…
April 8, 2020 Thank you to TSCG for having us as part of their Knowledge Series, we shared our thoughts current challenges, retailer success strategies, and real-life examples. To view…
The harsh lessons learned during the coronavirus (COVID-19) may be exactly what will help retailers to survive â and thrive â post-pandemic. Currently, retail chains industry-wide continue to shore up…
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A new podcast is live â âThe Womenâs Retail Collective Podcast: Wein Plus CEO and Founder Rachel Elias Weinâ The daughter of entrepreneurs and engineers, Rachel Elias Wein worked her…
March 26, 2020 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College…
The industry shakeout that was expected to take five to 10 years is happening in a matter of weeks. Liz Wolf | Mar 25, 2020 As much of the U.S. goes on…
March 16, 2020 David A. Wein, M.D. is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Tampa General Hospital, System Medical Director for TeamHealth, and an Associate Professor at USF Morsani College…
Ballooning healthcare costs are a crushing burden on the American populationâand if you donât think this should be a huge concern for retailers and landlords, take another look at the…
It wouldnât be a family vacation without a retail-related side trip, right? On a holiday trip to Israel, our family toured Fabricâs 6,000-square-foot micro-fulfillment center (MFC) in a light-industrial part…
During the historic boom after World War II, American retailers catered to the creature comforts and status aspirations of the massively expanding middle class. Fast-forward to 2019 and the situation…
Shopping Centers Today by Joel Groover October 28, 2019 Consensus is growing in the shopping center industry, experts say, about two key realities of the omni-channel age: The first is…
Fulfillment will race ahead in the grocery business over the next five years as one-hour delivery and rapid pickup of online orders become a routine part of life. How will…
When analysts envision the interior of future grocery stores, they tend to speak of bustling perimeters brimming with cafĂŠs, juice bars and sushi counters. Center-store packaged goods will yield to…
Playing defense has always been part of co-tenancy strategies. The goal was to avoid sitting next to potential competitors, even in ancillary categories. But over the next several years, grocers…
This is the second post in a series on Grocery of the Future. Futuristic supermarkets are on the drawing board as we speak, and some will no doubt be worthy…
Speculation about the grocery store of the future is running high. But while much-publicized rollouts by Alibabaâs Hema, Amazon Go or the new startup Zippin suggest a cashier-free, robot-filled future,…
The CEO who managed to turn around U.K. bookseller Waterstones has been put in charge of fixing the U.S. chain. NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR Liz Wolf, June 20, 2019 After…
Is it too late for predictions? 2018 was the year landlords and retailers found themselves on the same side of the tableâas partnersâagainst Amazon. 2019 will be the year retailers…
National Real Estate Investor Liz Wolf March 21, 2019 Beauty industry giants Sephora and Ulta continue to thrive and expand as other specialty chains struggle. Struggling retailers may soon be…
On my most recent visit to Cincinnati, I was able to visit the first-of-its-kind Kroger Express location at a Walgreens in Florence, Kentucky. 12 additional locations will follow in the…
A few weeks ago I participated in the inaugural GroceryShop in Las Vegas–a show dedicated to innovation for the changing needs of the customer. There’s been extensive media coverage of the event,…
#8 Altered Footprints Winsight Grocery Business Store experience is more important than ever in the digital age, said Ted Frumkin, chief development officer of Sprouts Farmers Markets (left, with interviewer…
Grocerydive.com by Krishna Thakker LAS VEGAS â Gone are the days of grocers growing in size to drive high-volume sales of packaged goods. These days, grocers are reducing their store…
WeinPlus is pleased to welcome a second, expanded engagement with Kroger Real Estate as the nationâs largest grocer continues its forward-thinking approach to its property portfolio. With nearly 2,800 stores…
SCT, Semptember, 2018 These 4 Under 40 honorees are already making a significant impact on the retail real estate world. This yearâs recipients of ICSCâs fourth annual 4 Under 40…
Subscriptions for goods and services have been around for a long time, but it seems like a million more have cropped up recently. Do any of them have the power…
National Real Estate Investor , Liz Wolf | Aug 30, 2018 Brookfield has already sold around $4 billion in stakes in some GGP malls to joint venture partners to help pay…
As traditionally conceived, the whole point of Rent the Runway or Blue Apron was to keep people out of brick-and-mortar environments. But what if subscription services could bolster brands in…
By Joel Groover, Contributor, Shopping Centers Today Some 200 young retail real estate executives came to Toronto last week for ICSCâs annual NextGen Conference. Among the highlights of this…
âRepair is a radical act.â Or so goes the slogan for Patagoniaâs Worn Wear program, which employs 45 full-time techs to repair about 40,000 used garments each year. For its…
Rachel Elias Wein, Founder & President of WeinPlus, was selected as one of ICSC’s Next Generation’s 4 Under 40 leaders. The honorees will be participating in a panel moderated by…
Rachel Elias Wein will be a participating in a session on New Store Formats & Footprints as part of the Next Generation Shopping Experiences track on Tuesday October 30, 2018…
While Chanel fragrances are widely available at U.S. retail stores, the brandâs flagship Chanel BeautĂŠ line has always been hard to find outside of high streets and malls. Thatâs now…
Retail and other traditionally single-use developers are increasingly teaming up with partners to do mixed-use projects. âAcross the country, weâre working on a lot more projects that have a robust…
A special thank you to The Florida State University and the Kislak Foundation for inviting me to participate in their Real Estate Symposium last night in Winter Park. It was…
Rowing Blazers is the brainchild of 30-year-old clothing designer Jack Carlson, an Oxford-trained archeologist whose rowing mates happen to include the Winklevoss twins. The brandâs namesake productââold sportâ sport coats…
Jason Goldberg âSVP Commerce & Content Practice, SapientRazorfish Key themes from the show: Retailers are trying to compete with Amazon with an “owned” brands strategy. This goes far beyond…
Deborah Weinswig Founder & CEO, Coresight Research The Coresight Research team was in Las Vegas last week, attending and participating in the Shoptalk 2018 conference held March 18â21. Click on…
Jesse Tron Managing Director, M Group Strategic Communications First things first, the conference itself has grown by leaps and bounds â even just compared to one year ago. Moving…
David Zoba Global Retail Leasing Board Chairman, JLL This was my first time at ShopTalk and IÂ found it to be a very engaged, technology-oriented conference attended by both e-commerce…
Pano Anthos Founder & Managing Director, XRC Labs A few takeaways from ShopTalk 2018: Innovation rules. Everyone is trying to innovate Investors love to hear blockchain Same-day delivery is…
Ari Kurtz Head of Industry, Retail, Google For the first time in awhile, retailers seem excited to be in retail and happy to have proven the naysayers wrong. But there’s…
Daniel Taub President, DLC Management Corp. My takeaways from ShopTalk…. Omni or Multi-channel is dead, there is NO channel, there is only ONE customer, Her; the customer needs to…
Brian Lutz Senior Director of Marketing & Retailer Services, CBL Properties ShopTalk continues to be my favorite show. The show outgrew itâs previous venue at the Aria and took…
Scott Bitney Broker, L3 Corporation. I was pleasantly surprised at how upbeat the show was compared to recent events that I have been to. It was the first time…
Back in 2011, Forbes ran a column under the headline âBest Buy Gets Amazoned: Is it Doomed?â The author recounted how a friendâs dog had chewed up a printer cord…
In our industry, all too often people see functions such as Leasing and Marketing as separate enough to be placed in silos, always and forever. When you think about it,…
Bordering somewhere between creepy and cool, Bonobos has recently updated their app to give you outfit suggestions based on a mix of your local weather, clothes you’ve purchased from the brand…
Special thanks to Ari Kurtz, Google’s Head of Industry, Retail and Pano Anthos, Founder and Managing Director of XRC Labs, a retail start-up incubator, for joining me for the Open…
Consider two experiential initiatives launched in recent weeks. In the first, American Eagle installed a bank of free washers and dryers in its New York flagship. The hope was that…
Companies tend to overestimate their ability to anticipate and respond to the changing marketplace. They think they’re in a delicate dance with consumer expectations and demand when, in fact, theyâre out…
âMy advice to anyone starting a business is to remember that someday I will crush you.â Thatâs the opening line of a satirical column, putatively written by Jeff Bezos, in…
By Joel Groover Contributor, Shopping Centers Today As supermarket chains race to offer last-mile fulfillment of online orders, they are leveraging one strategic advantage in particular: their own stores, which…
At its core, the way we make money is simple: We sign leases with tenants, get their registers ringing and pocket the rents. Ever wonder, then, why leasing is such…
