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Anew identification technology enables retailers to tie loyalty-marketing programs to consumers’ existing credit and debit cards.

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The 1.2 million-sq.-ft. Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, Calif., has been acquired by Steadfast Commercial Properties Retail Division, based in Newport Beach, Calif.The super-regional mall features Macy’s, Macy’s Men & Home, J.C.

All the world’s a stage, but few American retailers chose to be in the audience at the second annual World Retail Congress in Barcelona last month. Among the 1,100 delegates from around the world, only some 80 held U.S.

The 2.3 million-sq.-ft. retail entertainment extravaganza in East Rutherford, N.J.—Meadowlands Xanadu—has partnered with Pepsi to add yet another entertainment element to the complex.

Capris are so last season—Bermuda shorts are the new must-have summer item. Women are trading in their capris and gauchos of seasons past for this season’s latest knee-length short.

Personalization is becoming a big part of men’s wear, and it is showing up in a major way in retail.

Demand for prepaid stored-value payment cards such as gift cards or phone cards continues to escalate, and now retailers have a new avenue for distributing these payment cards through an existing infrastructure: automated teller machines (ATMs).

Whole Foods Market in Glastonbury, Conn., is one of the first supermarkets in the nation to generate a substantial amount of its power on-site with an ultra-clean fuel cell, from UTC Power, South Windsor, Conn.The 46,000-sq.-ft.

To keep a stronghold in the Middle East, Olayan Food Services Co.

The fast-growing specialty-apparel brand Mango has opened its first U.S. airport store, at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The 1,150-sq.-ft. MNG by Mango—the banner under which the Barcelona-based Mango operates its U.S.

Privately held Taylor Corp., based in Colorado Springs, Colo., announced that its subsidiary Current USA would acquire Lillian Vernon Corp. last month.