square-footage

Following last decade's burst of expansion in U.S. shopping malls, department stores and specialty retailers have scaled back square-footage growth significantly and closed many locations outright.

Dillard's Malls the Bears John Jannarone 2011

It reiterated goals to that end: doubling online revenue—which was $2 billion in the latest fiscal year—within three to five years and reducing its big-box store square-footage within the same time frame.

Best Buy Profit Slips Matt Jarzemsky 2011

It reiterated goals to that end: doubling online revenue—which was $2 billion in the latest fiscal year—within three to five years and reducing its big-box store square-footage within the same time frame.

Best Buy Profit Slips Matt Jarzemsky 2011

However, he forecast the decline in the average square-footage of new U.S. homes—pioneered by builders trying to cut the price of starter homes—would begin to moderate and reverse.

U.S. Lumber Producer Looks Abroad Doug Cameron 2011

There were con-artists at work in all this, but the point is that most people who bought houses during the bubble bought more square-footage than they needed, which is to say they bought a lot of nothing along with the amount of space they actually lived in.

Retooling an economy based on the endless buying and selling of toys and gizmos 2009

Gap continued to pare its square-footage holdings in North America, reducing its footprint by 2% for 2010 by shrinking some locations and closing others altogether.

Gap's Profit Edges Higher Elizabeth Holmes 2011

Shannon Stapleton/Reuters The new Nook Tablet Barnes & Noble recently said it planned to double the square-footage of its in-store Nook boutiques in 40 of its most important stores.

Barnes & Noble Bets It Can Compete in Tablets Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2011

There are very few of those in the retail space--a successful concept with square-footage growth potential ahead.

Successful Stocks With Long-Term Upside Wallace Forbes 2011

There were con-artists at work in all this, but the point is that most people who bought houses during the bubble bought more square-footage than they needed, which is to say they bought a lot of nothing along with the amount of space they actually lived in.

Lance Mannion: 2009

Early last year, the chain said it would revisit planned store openings and reduce its second-half square-footage growth, excluding new concept outlets.

J. Crew's Confidence Returns as Profit, Sales Climb Elizabeth Holmes 2010