The commercial side of shopping: retailer results and margins, footfall figures, commercial rent levels, landlord and mall redevelopment plans, and the municipal decisions determining whether a market hall survives. Numbers arrive with their sources. For readers who follow retail as an industry rather than a pastime.
Retailer earnings, footfall data, commercial rents, landlord strategy and the property decisions behind vacant storefronts and reinvented market halls.
China's biggest shopping event grew 17.5 percent in 2025, per eMarketer, while Alibaba and JD.com kept headline GMV figures quiet for a fourth straight year.
The 31st edition of Dubai Shopping Festival ran December 5 to January 11, and the deals that mattered were the ones with a printed before-price.