2025 Retail Trends That Could Kill Your Shopping Center If You Don’t Adapt!

 I’m Joseph Gozlan with Eureka Business Group, your retail navigator for the Dallas-Fort Worth market. And today I’m gonna share some actionable strategies to make sure that you stay ahead of retail trend and your shopping set thrives throughout those changes.

So here are the four retail trends that we’re looking at in 2025 that you should adapt to. The first retail trend we’re looking at is experiential retail. There is a big movement that happens right now in today’s market where people prefer the experience all over the let’s get in, get my stuff, get out.

what is experiential retail? It means the customer prefers the experience over the transaction.

It’s no longer the days of, I want to come in, get my stuff, pay, get out a transaction, and I’m out of here. They want the experience. They want the feel of I got out of the house. I did something interesting. I got more just buying a piece of merchandise.

Let’s talk about examples. Shops at Legacy and Legacy West in Plano that gives the customer an experience. You come in, there is a lot of store windows. There is a lot of high end product. There’s restaurants. There is a venue area. There’s live music sometimes. So when they go out, they don’t just go out, get into the store, buy something and come out.

They have an experience. They have an afternoon. They have They have a place to stroll with the kids. They have a place where they can stop by and grab a coffee before they go buy whatever they were going to buy. It’s a whole experience. It’s an afternoon. It’s an evening. It’s not just a transaction. Trend number two is the rise of hybrid retail. What does that mean, hybrid retail? It means that, again, not only a store where I can go pick up my merchandise. I wanna be able to make an order on my phone, drive to the store, have somebody bring up the merchandise straight to my car, and I drive off. I want to drive through experience. I want to be able to do things that doesn’t require me. To go the old way of find a parking spot, walk into the store, pick a merchandise, pick it up, get to the store, put it in my trunk, drive off.

People are looking for convenience and they’re looking for an experience. Sometimes that experience is walking down a street. Sometimes the experience is in and out without interaction in and out with, I started my transaction on my phone and I’m ending it up in the physical world. People have different preferences, but we see those trends coming up in the retail world.

Trend number 3 that we see in retail in 2025 is the decline of the big box retail. We see a lot of big box retail anchored shopping center getting those anchors move out. Albertsons, Kroger’s, and so on. We see those and their lease move out. And then the shopping center owner is stuck with a massive anchor tenant that is vacant.

This is not good ’cause the rent is not there anymore and it’s not good because the traffic is not there anymore and it impacts the rest of your tenant in your shopping center. So how can we adapt to it? We’ll talk about that when we talk about strategies about how to mitigate and staying ahead of the curb.

But this is a real trend we’re seeing and this is a real problem for shopping center owners. . And if you’re not preparing for that day, when that big anchor tenant is moving out, you’re going to be in trouble.

Trend number four we see in retail in 2025 is the shift towards community, local sourced retail. Don’t get me wrong, national brands still rule the shopping centers. They steal the anchors.

They’re still the main draw of customers. But customers are also looking for a little bit more. They’re looking for, you Where’s my local restaurant? Where’s that hole in the wall that everybody’s talking about? Where is that small business owner that gives me more service and I feel like I’m contributing into the community.

And that is a trend we’re seeing. So that means as a shopping center owners, don’t just focus on the big national brands, look at the small, look at the community, look, what brings customers into your shopping centers, because it’s attractive. One of our shopping centers have a Guatemalan restaurant.

Which is catering to the Latino community in the area. And that thing is insanely successful. It draws people from miles and miles away because they give them that local feel. They give that warm of, I’m walking in into a family kind of style restaurant or kind of style grocery store. Which that tenant is a combination of, and that is very important to that shopping center.

They’re actually the anchor of that shopping center.

So what can shopping center owners do in order to get ready for the trends in retail and to adapt into what’s going to sustain their shopping center for years to come? Strategy number one we offer is always look at your tenant mix. Your tenant mix is going to be very important. If it’s all boring, if it’s all the same stuff, if it’s all national brands, it’s good from one perspective, but on the other hand, you’re missing the community feel.

You’re missing the drive. of people into those local stores that feel so much home based kind of things and very much attractive to the local community. So watch a tenant mix include your retail, but include experience, include a fitness center, include other stuff that the community is drawn to.

Another strategy you can use in order to stay ahead of the curve is consider different strategies for short term leasing. And I’m not suggesting that you’ll rent your stores for six months or eight months or something like that. I’m suggesting you think about pop ups. You think about those Halloween stores that come in for a few months and come out.

If you have the vacancy, why not? These tenants usually pay more than your average rent in the market. Consider leasing out some of this vacant space in the parking lot for a Christmas tree lot. Consider having a farmer’s market come and spread out in your parking lot over the weekends and stuff like that.

So look at these opportunities. Those are double wins because it’s an extra income that you were not expecting, but at the same time, it provides that community feel that we talked about earlier. Another strategy you can take with your shopping center is look at the opportunity to bring in community events.

What does that mean? We’re talking about live music. We’re talking about that farmer’s market I just mentioned. We’re talking about maybe bringing in artists to do a mural if you have a space on one of the areas in the shopping center. Maybe if you have a bookstore, work with the tenant to bring in an author to do a reading. Anything that can bring the community into your shopping center is going to be a huge win for both you and the business owners that occupy the spaces in your shopping center. One last strategy you should think about it in your shopping center is creating some public spaces. What does that mean? If you have a restaurant, can you organize some space for a patio where people can sit outside? If you have a small area that is fenced, maybe you can introduce it to a doggy daycare kind of tenant.

All these kind of things that where you can take your outside space and repurpose it in order to Have more engagement with the community. Have more experience based retail brought into your shopping center. These are all going to be great wins for you.

So we talked about a few trends that are coming to retail in 2025. The retail landscape is evolving all the time. So you as a retail center owner needs to evolve the same as retail is evolving.

And only retail shopping center owners that are going to evolve are going to not only survive the changes in retail, but also going to be thriving through it. Do you see any retail trends in 2025 that I missed?

Let me know in the comments below.

If you’re ready to transform your shopping center to adapt to the new trends in retail and you need help. an with Eureka Business Group, your retail navigator for the Dallas Fort Worth market, and I can help you do that. Just give me a call, shoot us a message. We’re here for you.

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People are looking for convenience and they’re looking for an experience. Sometimes that experience is walking down a street. Sometimes the experience is in and out without interaction in and out with, I started my transaction on my phone and I’m ending it up in the physical world. People have different preferences, but we see those trends coming up in the retail world.

3, 2, Trend number 3 that we see in retail in 2025 is the decline of the big box retail. We see a lot of big box retail anchored shopping center getting those anchors move out. Albertsons, Kroger’s, and so on. We see them basically in their lease move out. And now we see those and their lease move out. And then the shopping center owner is stuck with a massive anchor tenant that is vacant.

This is not good for rent. That is not to. This is not good ’cause the rent is not there anymore and it’s not good because the traffic is not there anymore and it impacts the rest of your tenant in your shopping center. So how can we adapt to it? We’ll talk about that when we talk about strategies about how to mitigate and staying ahead of the curb.

But this is a real trend we’re seeing and this is a real problem for shopping center owners. And if you’re not, if you’re not ready to, and if you are not ready to adapt to this situation. You’re going to get stuck in a real weird three, two, one. And if you’re not preparing for that day, when that big anchor tenant is moving out, you’re going to be in trouble.

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They’re still the main draw of customers. But customers are also looking for a little bit more. They’re looking for, you Where’s my local restaurant? Where’s that hole in the wall that everybody’s talking about? Where is that small business owner that gives me more service and I feel like I’m contributing into the community.

And that is a trend we’re seeing. So that means as a shopping center owners, don’t just focus on the big national brands, look at the small, look at the community, look at what brings your customers into to look, what brings customers into your shopping centers, because it’s attractive. One of our shopping centers have a Guatemalan restaurant.

Which is catering to the Latino community in the area. And that thing is insanely successful. It draws people from miles and miles away because they give them that local feel. They give that warm of, I’m walking in into a family kind of style restaurant or kind of style, uh, grocery store. Uh, which that tenant is a combination of, and that is very, very important to that shopping center.

They’re actually the anchor of that shopping center.

So what can shopping center owners do in order to get ready for the trends in retail and to adapt into what’s going to sustain their shopping center for years to come? Well, strategy number one we offer is always look at your tenant mix. Your tenant mix is going to be very, very important. If it’s all boring, if it’s all the same stuff, if it’s all national brands, it’s good from one perspective, but on the other hand, you’re missing the community feel.

You’re missing the drive. of people into those local stores that feel so much home based kind of things and very much attractive to the local community. So watch a tenant mix include your retail, but include experience, include a fitness center, include other stuff that the community is drawn to.

to you. Another strategy you can use in order to stay ahead of the curve is consider different strategies for short term leasing. And I’m not suggesting that you’ll rent your stores for six months or eight months or something like that. I’m suggesting you think about pop ups. You think about those Halloween stores that come in for a few months and come out.

If you have the vacancy, why not? These tenants usually pay more than your average rent in the market. Consider Um, leasing out some of this vacant space in the parking lot for a Christmas tree to for a Christmas tree lot. Consider having a farmer’s market come and spread out in your parking lot over the weekends and stuff like that.

So look at these opportunities. Those are double wins because it’s an extra income that you were not expecting, but at the same time, it provides that community feel that we talked about earlier. 3, 2, 1. Another strategy you can take with your shopping center is look at the opportunity to bring in community events.

What does that mean? We’re talking about live music. We’re talking about that farmer’s market I just mentioned. We’re talking about maybe bringing in artists to do a mural if you have a space on one of the areas in the shopping center.

Three, two, maybe if you have a bookstore, work with the tenant to bring in an author to do a reading. Anything that can bring the community into your shopping center is going to be a huge win for both you and the business owners that occupy the spaces in your shopping center.

One. One last strategy you should think about it in your shopping center is creating some public spaces. What does that mean? If you have a restaurant, can you organize some space for a patio where people can sit outside? If you have a small area that is fenced, maybe you can introduce it to a doggy daycare kind of tenant.

All these kind of things that where you can take your outside space and repurpose it in order to Have more engagement with the community. Have more experience based retail brought into your shopping center. These are all going to be great wins for you.

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And only retail center owners that evolve as retail does will have not only three, two, and only retail shopping center owners that are going to evolve are going to not only survive the changes in retail, but also going to be thriving through it. Three, two. Do you see any retail trends in 2025 that I missed?

Let me know in the comments below.

Three, two. If you’re ready to transform your shopping center to adapt to the new trends in retail and you need help. I’m Joseph Gozlan with Eureka Business Group, your retail navigator for the Dallas Fort Worth market, and I can help you do that. Just give me a call, shoot us a message. We’re here for you.