Shopping and Services

Tight times redefining luxury and essential (Baltimore Sun)

13 May 2008

Notions of what's necessary, what's extra are changing At The Wine Rack, where sales from the $10-and-under shelves are booming, Jocelyn Vorbach says aloud what most of her customers won't: Friendships now have price tags, and dinner guests are gauged.

Illinois Mall Protects Merchants, Assets and Shoppers With Firetide Video Surveillance Network (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

13 May 2008

LOS GATOS, Calif.----Merchants, assets and shoppers at the 1 million-square-foot Golf Mill Shopping Center in Niles, Ill., are better served since the installation this month of a new wireless video surveillance system.

Arnold Dierbergs is 'green' to go (Jefferson County Journal)

13 May 2008

The second store completed in the new Arnold Commons shopping center will not only open to the public Tuesday but will offer energy efficient services for shoppers.