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Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record In North Jersey, dead stores usually are quickly replaced by the new kid on the retail block. It's the first rule of retail: Change [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordThe owner of Perfect Accent, an accessories store at Westfield Garden State Plaza in Paramus, got her holiday wish: more time to say goodbye to [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon'People don't realize the international scope of their business.' Jamie Dykes President of the Greater Paterson Chamber of Commerce, talking about Kontos Foods In a factory in Paterson's [...]

Byline: Joan VerdonClicks vs bricks? That retail war is over. We're now in the era of Click Bricks.Retailers used to spend a lot of time talking about clicks vs. bricks [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordNew Jersey and paper towels, perfect together? Paper towels were the number one thing New Jersey residents bought from Walmart.com in 2018. Paper towels? That's [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordThe battle to improve conditions for clothing factory workers was fought in Manhattan. Detroit was where autoworkers won job protections. Now, the fight to improve [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordOh Amazon tree, Oh Amazon tree We're sorry we couldn't keep you Fresh-cut Christmas trees and office spaces -- especially busy New Jersey newsroom offices [...]

Byline: Joan VerdonWhen Dee Stevens opened her tiny toy shop, The Grow-Cery, in downtown Glen Rock 25 years ago, there were two giant Toys R Us stores nearby -- each [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record|USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEYWhat does it take to manage New Jersey's largest shopping mall? You have to be able to walk the 'walk.' [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordRockaway Townsquare mall will get a makeover next year that will give the 41-year-old regional shopping center a more modern look, as well as an [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey RecordRetailers are expecting this holiday season to be a jolly one for their balance sheets based on sales during the five-day Black Friday weekend. But [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Remember the Black Fridays of Christmas shopping seasons past, when traffic on Routes 4 and 17 in Paramus slowed to a crawl, or came [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record 'There's opportunity that feels homegrown in all the right ways.' Tawana Murphy Burnett A global team leader for Facebook Jeff Bezos didn't choose Newark [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Discount retailer National Wholesale Liquidators built its business capitalizing on retail bankruptcies, closeouts, and opportunistic buys of unsold merchandise, which it then offered to [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record The Toys R Us bankruptcy and other store closings pushed the retail vacancy rate for North and Central New Jersey up this past summer [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Sears, as it limps toward the holiday season under bankruptcy protection, is seen as the great-grandma of retail - too old and stodgy to keep up in [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Robert Torres of Nutley didn't know he was taking a photograph of his 8-year-old daughter in front of a sculpture by [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Monica Royer had an idea for an online children's clothing company, but she knew the company also needed something unavailable online [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Supermarket chain Stop & Shop, which has 60 stores in New Jersey, has joined other grocery retailers and restaurants in deciding [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record The oddsmakers are betting against Newark in the final round of the 20-city contest to win Amazon's new, second headquarters. But business experts and [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon 'Too much rot has set in at Sears to make it a viable business.' Neil Saunders Managing director, GlobalData Retail Sears has been closing stores and shrinking [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Another online retailer has decided it might be a good idea to have a physical presence in New Jersey's largest mall -- at least [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, USA TODAY The toy mogul who launched a campaign to keep Toys R Us alive - only to face rejection - says the newly resurrected version of [...]

Byline: Lindsey Kelleher and Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record NORTH ARLINGTON -- The body of an unidentified man was removed from the Passaic River on Saturday morning by the North [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record 'They destroyed a brand that's been around for 70 years for their short-term ... gains.' Isaac Larian Chief executive of MGA Entertainment The toy [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Toys R Back? Not quite, but the first signs of how the financial firms that carved up Toys R Us plan to resurrect the [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY Toys R Back? Not quite, but the first signs of how the financial firms who carved up Toys R Us plan [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record As Amazon draws closer to picking a home for its coveted second headquarters, New Jersey boosters are hoping the e-commerce giant sees Newark's bid [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record 'It is a day for remembering the past and all of those who have brought us to this present hour.' Pastor Arlene Romaine English [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record As two global superpowers fight a trade war, the collateral damage is being felt on Mayhill Street in Saddle Brook, on Empire Boulevard in [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Parents who wait too long this year to buy holiday toys could face a nightmare before Christmas. That LEGO Hogwarts Grand Hall, or that [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record|USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY The lumberjack show in a Ramsey parking lot Thursday was a throwback to a bygone era, the timber rush [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record A kosher supermarket chain that drew crowds when it opened in Clifton two years ago has hit financial trouble and filed for bankruptcy protection. [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Shoppers should get ready for sticker shock at the store in the wake of the latest tariffs on Chinese imports announced by the Trump [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record The Prudential Center is introducing a new way to watch a hockey game, concert or college basketball tournament, for those willing to pay the [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Past grand openings have typically included lumberjack shows with ax-throwing. Attention plumbers, carpenters and all the other hardworking men and women who have been [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record At the Hackensack Riverkeeper's fishing derby Sunday, there was lots of bragging about how many fish were caught, how big they were and the [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Malls get their biggest crop of new stores during the fall season, as retailers ramp up for the holiday shopping surge. Here are some of the new [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Warby Parker has been hailed as a retailer of the future, an e-commerce whiz kid that proved it could sell eyeglasses online, without stores. [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record The parkas made by luxury outwear brand Canada Goose have climbed Mount Everest, survived winter in Antarctica and raced the Iditarod in Alaska. Now [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Warby Parker, the eyeglasses retailer that was born online, plans to follow its first New Jersey store, in Paramus, with two additional stores, in [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record|USA TODAY NETWORK - NEW JERSEY 'The real question is who wins the last two weeks [before Christmas].' Jim Silver Editor in chief of TTPM, [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon and Nicholas Katzban 'There have been a lot of naysayers. Now we're proving the naysayers wrong.' Rick Sabato Bergen County Building Trades President The first phase of [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon and Nicholas Katzban 'There have been a lot of naysayers. Now we're proving the naysayers wrong.' Rick Sabato Bergen County Building Trades president The first phase of [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Another sexual harassment case had landed on the desk of Hasbrouck Heights-based attorney Marc Garbar, and the circumstances were familiar. A female employee, on [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record The American Dream Meadowlands project is jumping on the hottest trend in mall dining -- food halls -- and giving it a branded, entertainment [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon Not every business can be as big as Amazon. And those niche mid-sized manufacturers and retailers need a way to get their goods from the warehouse to [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record I made a grocery list on my phone and Target, through its subsidiary Shipt, delivered. But it couldn't bring me my family's Holy Grail [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Sydney Eleanor 'Ellie' Jacobs left her mark on hundreds of North Jersey homes in her six decades as a designer for Greenbaum Interiors in [...]

Byline: Joan Verdon, North Jersey Record Tim Doherty has a succession story. But unlike the HBO series 'Succession,' which tells the story of battles between a father and his backstabbing [...]