With fitness and home furnishings retailers in expansion mode, and many malls looking to fill empty ... [+] anchor boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods and At Home are a perfect traffic drivers. Dick's Sporting Goods and At HomeAnalytics firm Placer.ai reported that traffic in a 52-mall sample was up 86 percent over March, 2020. Besides theatres, fitness retailers, and even grocery stores there are several categories that are in growth mode, among them sporting goods and home furnishings. Dick’s Lives Where Sears DidIn early April, Dicks Sporting Goods DKS took the wrappers of their first Dick’s House of Sport, in Rochester New York’s Eastview Mall. Dick’s acquired Galyan’s 47-store sporting goods chain in a 2004, $362 million buyout.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2021 16:18 UTC