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After more than 75 days of lockdown, the shopping malls finally opened up pan India. Since the retail industry has been opening up in the ‘Unlock’ phases, the malls are slowly returning to normalcy in some segments, as far...

To provide the safest and most convenient shopping experience for their customers post the lockdown, DLF Malls, one of the country’s biggest and largest physical marketplace, unveiled exciting new features in ‘DLF Malls Lukout app’. The new ‘Shop Safe’ feature...

The worldwide lockdown for almost 70 days amid the COVID-19 pandemic left the Shopping Centre Industry in India and the world in the throes of a crisis. The need for hyper sanitization and social distancing had led to shuttering...

DLF Shopping Malls, the country’s largest physical marketplace has partnered with Inresto to create a contactless dining experience at restaurants and food courts across its malls. Starting with DLF Promenade, the service will also be available at DLF Cyberhub, Horizon...

While the sentiments on Day 1 were greatly encouraging, the industry has had the time to study footfall patterns and purchase behaviours over several days, including on the first weekend since the lifting of restrictions. In a second, exciting...

The seventh edition of #SCAIMondays was a special webcast of shopping centre heads and senior mall management executives who reported from the frontlines with real-time updates on customer experiences and retailers’ feedback on the first day of shopping mall...

In a bid to support retail employees and their families impacted by COVID-19, IMAGES Group and Trust for Retailers and Retail Associates of India (TRRAIN) hosted Retail Panchayat, a first-ever, pan-India humanitarian campaign. Amitabh Taneja, Chairman and Managing Director, IMAGES...

The third of SCAI Mondays– a weekly, custom webinar series aimed at redressing the unprecedented challenges arising out of COVID-19 pandemic for India’s shopping centre development ecosystem – took place on May 11, 2020. A group of India’s leading...

India is working hard towards flattening the coronavirus curve. Nonetheless, many sectors have been hit hard, among them hospitality, aviation and retail. As per an industry report, going ahead, the world economy is going to become a low-touch economy,...

As incomes rise, aspirations change and brand awareness increases among non-metro consumers, an increase in the number of malls has been observed in the largely untapped non-metro cities. As locations for malls in metros are maturing rapidly, brands and developers...