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The Oklahoman: OKC Outlets shows off new look as holiday shopping is about to begin “To a retailer, curb appeal can go along way toward getting customers through its doors. OKC Outlets’ owner gets that, and its been working on improving that aesthetic for its tenants during the past couple months.” The Oklahoman reporter Jack Money describes the […]

TORG: Outlet Retail Specialists “TORG knows where the sector is, where it’s been and where it’s going.” Value Retail News Managing Editor Duke Ratliff covers The Outlet Resource Group (TORG) in this month’s feature story. “David Hinkle and Lisa Wagner brought decades of experience to The Outlet Resource Group (TORG) when they formed the advisory […]

The retail industry received a clear message earlier this month about the opportunity outlet centers hold for future success.

As cultural as the presentation might intend to be, European Outlet sales figures are what have turned the concept from experiment to trend.

Last month, TORG’s David Hinkle provided the signature quote for a Chain Store Age article on the increase in outlet retailer locations and the related boom in outlet center traffic. “When you’ve got about 215 outlet centers spread around the U.S. and 12 new ones open, that’s significant growth,” Mr. Hinkle told the online magazine. […]

Finding a New Outlet “New retailers and new consumers (read: millennials) discovering value retail, and that means more outlet centers in more locales in more different configurations.” Chain Store Age covers the significant rise of outlet centers across the United States in their November/December issue, quoting TORG Principal David Hinkle as to the why and how of […]

If you think increases in online shopping have signaled the demise of the in-store, in-person retail experience, don’t try making that point to any of the 99 million plus U.S. consumers who are crowding malls and shopping centers this holiday season. Some holiday consumer spending reports propose a rise in online shopping comes at the […]

According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) 2014 World Urbanization Prospects (a biannual report), 66% of the world’s population is projected to be urban dwellers by 2030 up from the current 54%. Right now, a whopping 82% of North America’s population lives in urban areas and that number is […]

There is a growing trend in the retail industry of online retailers opening brick and mortar stores to create more synergy.

As seen in The Gainesville Sun on November 2, 2016 by Anthony Clark. If he wanted to, NASCAR star Tony Stewart could drive over the new bridge over Interstate 75 when he visits the new Bass Pro Shops Sportsman’s Center in Gainesville next Wednesday, provided his car was street legal. Two upcoming events will herald […]