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Black Pound Day: The seller, which offers more than 80 Black-owned beauty and jewelry brands, opened a permanent store at Westfield London after a successful pop-up there.
Conn’s HomePlus: The home appliance and furnishings retailer opened at New Mexico’s Santa Fe Place, backfilling a 39,850-square-foot former Mervyn’s department store that Sports Authority occupied from 2013 to 2016, before that chain folded. Conn’s HomePlus has 160 stores.
Farm Rio: The Brazilian apparel brand launched its first Los Angeles store, a 1,900-square-foot unit on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice Beach. In 2019, Farm Rio opened its first U.S. brick-and-mortar stores, in New York City’s SoHo and at Aventura Mall in Miami.
HomeGoods: The home furnishings chain will move into 24,000 square feet of the former Sears at Governor’s Square Mall, owned by Cafaro, in Clarksville, Tennnesee.
Lucid: The electric vehicle retailer opened at Seattle’s University Village, pictured at top, marking its first Lucid Studio in the Pacific Northwest and 28th in North America. The company has Lucid Studios in Chicago; San Diego; San Francisco; Long Island, New York; Vancouver; and Washington, D.C.
Lunya: The luxury sleepwear brand is expanding from four stores to eight this year. At the beginning of 2022, it had locations in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Houston. It since has added a store in each San Francisco and Boston, and Chicago and Dallas are on the way.
Rite Aid: The drugstore chain is putting pharmacists front and center in its growth plans with an apothecary-style format that will roll out in Indiana, upstate New York and western Virginia over the next few months. Rite Aid will open most new stores in underserved markets that have no another pharmacy within five miles and where there are few healthcare providers, CEO Heyward Donigan said. It also wants to make its pharmacists available 24/7 to customers via online chat.
Sabyasachi: The Indian luxury wedding design label’s first U.S. store will debut in New York City, on Christopher Street, this fall.
Tous les Jours: The South Korean bakery cafe chain, a rival of Paris Baguette, also is growing in the U.S. The company opened its first Nebraska franchise in Omaha. This year, it will open franchise units in New Haven, Connecticut; and Haverford, Pennsylvania. Tous les Jours has about 70 stores in the U.S. The company aims to operate in 22 U.S. states by the end of 2022, up from 17 last year and 12 in 2018.
Unclaimed Baggage: The retailer is going on a pop-up tour to celebrate its 50th anniversary. From its 50,000-square-foot store in Scottsboro, Alabama, it sells goods from unclaimed bags left at airports. The company will hit all 50 states with a tent and interactive pop-up event that lets customers play baggage handler and search for treasures amid thousands of unclaimed items.
By Brannon Boswell
Executive Editor, Commerce + Communities Today
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