Retailsphere’s Latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Each day, RetailSphere’s on-demand research team speaks to hundreds of site selectors about their expansion plans and demographics. Here are five we talked to this week about their specific plans.

1.NextGen Fitness Tulsa - Every NexGen Fitness location features the same NexGen personalized fitness experience: private workout suites, state-of-the-art cardio and weight-training equipment, and one-on-one sessions with an expert personal trainer. NextGen is currently expanding in New York.
Furniture Row - Furniture Row Companies® is a group of specialty home furnishings, mattress stores, carrying a variety of brand names, all available at one convenient location. We focus on providing a shopping experience that is tailored to your needs. This is just one of the many reasons we're among America's fastest-growing furniture retailers.
Patel. Brothers - At Patel Brothers, our mission is to bring the best ingredients from around the world, right to your doorstep. With a wide variety of authentic regional grocery and spice products, we strive to reconnect people with the familiar flavors of India.
Brident Dental and Orthodontics - We're here to make sure everyone has access to complete dental care of the highest quality. Not just check-ups and fillings: complete dental care including braces, implants and oral surgery. We have everything a healthy smile requires in one place.
Storagelocal Co-Op - StoreLocal is a cooperative created by independent self storage operators to lead our industry into an increasingly competitive landscape.

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About Retailsphere

Founded in 2019, RetailSphere™ is an all-in-one platform that includes the world’s largest contact database of retail commercial real estate decision makers, a robust email and leasing enablement marketing platform and a simple, intuitive and included Pipeline CRM™ tool. RetailSphere™ is modernizing the way the retail industry connects within a single pane of glass.

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Retailsphere’s Latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Each day, RetailSphere’s on-demand research team speaks to hundreds of site selectors about their expansion plans and demographics. Here are five we talked to this week about their specific plans.

Spencer’s Gifts - Spencer's, a unique retail brand, has been focused on delivering humor and enjoyment to lives for 60+ years. Founded as a mail-order catalog in 1947, Spencer's sold a vast assortment of innovative, novel merchandise (no one needed, but everyone wanted) that added excitement and laughter to its customers' lifestyles. Spencer’s is expanding in New Jersey.
Chapter Aesthetic Studio - Chapter Aesthetic Studio is a leading aesthetics brand offering state-of-the-art, non-surgical skin care and body rejuvenation treatments. We believe that beauty belongs to everybody, which is why we’re here: to empower people to write their own beauty story. They are expanding in Texas.
Sokah Caribbean BBQ - Sokah Caribbean BBQ, where we blend the bold, smoky essence of Texas BBQ with the vibrant, exotic flavors of the Caribbean. Our unique fusion creates an unforgettable culinary experience that transports your taste buds to a place where the deep traditions of southern barbecue meet the rich, diverse spices of the islands.
Puttshack - Get your game face ready A-town. Good vibes only as you navigate our crazy, tech-infused mini golf courses and unique event spaces -located in the bustling Interlock community. All that winning (or losing) will work up an appetite so our passionate chefs & bartenders will tantalise your taste buds with flavours from around the globe.
Camel Premium Express Car Wash - At Camel Express Premium Car Wash, we understand the chaos of everyday life. That’s why Camel created a hassle-free, state-of-the-art express car wash designed to save time and money for our customers in Georgia and Florida.

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Retailsphere’s latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Each day, RetailSphere’s on-demand research team speaks to hundreds of site selectors about their expansion plans and demographics. Here are five we talked to this week about their specific plans.

Reliant Urgent Care – Reliant, under the Medicine for Business and Industry (MBI) banner, is a leading provider of occupational injury care services in the Southwestern United States. MBI serves a wide array of employers through its integrated care model. Our occupational healthcare services include medical injury care and physical therapy rehabilitation. We also provide employment-related physical exams as well as a full spectrum of employee testing and screening services.
Easy Wireless- At Easy Wireless, we know that affordable phone service is vital to stay connected in today's world. It’s your Lifeline to family, friends, and community. It’s your Lifeline to healthcare providers, potential employers, and first responders in the event of an emergency.
Micro Center- Micro Center is the nation’s leading computer and electronic device retailer. Our technology super store has an industry-leading 40,000+ selection of premier brands and the most knowledgeable staff in the business. Founded in 1979 in Columbus, Ohio, we have grown steadily and profitably to a nationwide presence. Our brick-and-mortar stores attract a wide range of customers – from casual to tech-savvy – with highly trained associates who offer technical solutions in an immersive shopping environment.
Burger Lounge - The Burger Lounge ethos is centered on creating a burger you can feel better about eating. It begins with 100% fresh single source American grass fed beef. We believe that a hamburger should not only taste great, it should also utilize healthy ingredients produced in a sustainable environment. Burger Lounge offers a simple menu utilizing the mindful procurement of ingredients that appeal to health conscious diners, vegetarians, salad lovers and those simply “hankering for a great hamburger.”
ScrubaDub Car Wash - We promise to be courteous, thorough, and to deliver the best products and services available. If you're not completely satisfied with your car wash, we'll rewash your car until you're satisfied or we'll refund your money in full.

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Peterson Company's Mark Kufka is amazed at the RetailSphere platform's evolution in such a short amount of time

"I cannot compliment you enough on how far the product has come since Kenny Brown first introduced – then eventually sold us – on the RetailSphere tool. Your team has truly put in some great work to expand the product and make it that much more valuable. It was a good tool when we originally licensed it back in 2020, but it is amazing how much further it has evolved." -Mark A. Kufka, Assistant Vice President, Market Research and Leasing Technology, Peterson Companies

Our goal at Retailsphere has always been to do everything we possibly can to help our clients succeed. The ultimate goal of the RetailSphere™ platform is to empower our clients to close more deals quickly. In general, we strive to see our clients close more than ten times what they pay in subscription fees on the platform. It’s quite simple. If our clients succeed, they will be excited and word will spread. And, of course, word of mouth is the best way to grow a business.

So how do we do that? Well, to Mark’s point, it has required building functionality that most of our clients weren’t using. We’ve been working on it for a while and will continue to improve on the product, but it’s much closer to being completed today than in 2020.

And what is the final goal of Retailsphere™ platform? Right now it can be described in three main parts:

1. A tool that makes reaching out to prospective clients/partners as easy as possible.

2. A tool that quickly allows you to find thousands of potential clients and partners.

3. A tool that allows you to easily track your activities, automate the scheduling of tasks and appointments, and quickly report on your activities.

These are 1. Our marketing automation suite, 2. The world’s largest contact database of retail CRE decision-makers and 3. A super painless, included (read FREE) Pipeline CRM™ tool.

So let’s quickly review each of these three parts. It starts with having the best marketing platform in the industry. Not only can you simply send bulk emails, and view when recipients are opening, clicking, and replying to your emails, but you can set up (w/ only a few mouse clicks) ongoing email cadences. These multi-step “fire & forget” marketing campaigns are incredibly powerful in building new relationships. But it’s a lot more than just providing the platform that allows for this. There is a great deal of training that goes into creating powerful multi-step cadences. There is an art and a science to it. And our team is there to help our clients quickly scale the learning curve of this powerful technology.

The second part is the database. You need to quickly be able to find dozens, hundreds, or even thousands, of potential clients or partners. RetailSphere™ is the largest contact database in the industry. By a huge margin. Not just contacts for massive national brands (which we have) but tens of thousands of others as well. Landlords, franchisees, locally famous concepts, architects, lawyers, and other service providers. These contacts can be quickly assembled into shareable collections that can be dropped into pre-build campaigns.

Finally, we have our Pipeline CRM™. Easy and intuitive software that makes taking notes, remembering follow-ups, tracking deals, and reporting to your clients and senior team members effortless.

This Three-legged stool approach to retail commercial real estate deal-making is incredibly powerful. That’s why clients are so excited about the RetailSphere™ platform. Users really do expand their networks, close more deals and empower their careers!

How our On-demand Research team works

A Peek into the Inner Workings of the RetailSphere™ Research Team

The RetailSphere™ research team operates on a multifaceted approach, blending cutting-edge marketing automation with the human element to delve deep into the intricacies of the retail commercial real estate landscape to get expansion plans and contact information for our clients.

Their goal: To uncover hidden opportunities for clients by finding contact information and reaching out to clients over the phone, via email, marketing automation and more social connections that anyone in the industry to provide clients with the knowledge needed to stay ahead of the curve.

After receiving a research request from a RetailSphere™ client, the on-demand research team immediately hits the phones and works to get the appropriate site selector for the multi-unit group, franchisor, or national brand contact(s). We say contact(s) because in many cases there are multiple contacts that handle expansion and development responsibilities for the retailer.

In some cases, a quick line to the appropriate contact isn’t readily available, and that’s where the team goes to work adding contacts via the website, social media and other RetailSphere™ databases to essentially scrub the internet for information.

Then, using RetailSphere’s™ marketing automation technology, cadences, the team reaches out with a series of crafted emails designed to state the goal, reason for reaching out, and how getting back to the team is a great marketing opportunity for the specific retailer as well.

In the interim, the team spends the time updating the retailer’s profile within RetailSphere™ with the best social, office, cell phone and work history data they can uncover.

But even as all the data is set, verified, and researched, the team will continue to reach out via phone, email, and socials to get the expansion plans verified by the retailer.

The bonus for RetailSphere™ clients, the on-demand research team has built relationships through continued conversations over time with retailers, brokers, tenant reps and shopping center owners, who trust the team and know us by name. But more on that in our next piece.

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RetailSphere’s latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Each day, RetailSphere’s on-demand research team speaks to hundreds of site selectors about their expansion plans and demographics. Here are five we talked to this week about their specific plans.

Sally Beauty Supply LLC - Sally informed our researchers they are open to looking at locations nationwide. They are looking for Population of 3 miles - 50,000, 1,400—1,800 sq. ft. based on population and salon counts, with excellent access and visibility from shopping center. They prefer 100,000 sq. ft. shopping center anchored by at least one major tenant, i.e. major grocer, discount store, clothing or department store chain.

Rural King – After talking to our research team, Rural King said they are growing in the midwest and southeast. They are looking for 90k sq ft, non-urban locations, only purchase. They are still expanding and taking site referrals.

Loving Hut, Inc – Loving Hut told the team they are looking to expand and are interested in Rhode Island but would like all sites sent to them for potential fit. They prefers about 2000 SF lease locations.

Wienerschnitzel Tastee Freez - They are expanding everywhere. They are looking for 800-2100 square feet and have land requirements (freestanding & conversions): 16,000 – 45,000sf NEW Construction Freestanding: 800/sf (H1 series) no indoor dining or 1,400/sf (H2 series) with indoor dining. Conversion buildings or End-caps with Drive-Thru: 800-2,100/ sf.

Paris Baguette USA- Our researchers were told Paris Baguette expand based on the franchisee and if you have someone interested in a particular state they will review it. They prefer 3000+ SF depending upon the Traditional or Non Traditional site preference. The newest locations are focused in NC, IL, NY, NJ, OH, PA, TX, MD, SC and VA.

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Retailsphere’s latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Each day, RetailSphere’s on-demand research team speaks to hundreds of site selectors about their expansion plans and demographics. Here are five of the many retailers we talked to this week about their specific plans:

Club Pilates - Club Pilates studios can vary in size, but typically are looking for between 1,500 square feet and 2,320 square feet. Currently, Club Pilates is expanding in all states. They have over 900 locations nationwide.
Rapid Fired Pizza – Currently Rapid Fire Pizza has 20 locations and are currently looking to expand in several states. They are currently seeking around 3,000 square feet for new or existing locations.
Verve Coffee Roasters - Verve Coffee Roasters currently has 11 locations in California and are seeking additional locations in the state. Location sizes vary for Verve, ranging from 7,000 square feet to much larger 13,000 square foot locations.
Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill - Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill has locations in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. They are now seeking nationwide expansion.
Sweetgreen – Sweetgreen is located in several states including California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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Retailsphere’s latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Runnings – The Runnings story begins on December 5th, 1947, when founder Norman “Red” Running opened the first store in downtown Marshall, Minnesota. Runnings started as an automotive supply store and was deeply rooted in selling farm and fleet supplies until the late 80’s when additional product lines were added. They are currently expanding into several additional states.
Voodoo Doughnut - Voodoo Doughnut started in Portland Oregon, and now is in Eugene Oregon, Denver Colorado, Austin Texas, and now L.A. California, was the brain child of Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson and Tres Shannon who had been friends for a while. They always wanted to start a business together. Something that would fit into an extraordinary Portland Oregon business climate. They are expanding nationwide.
Fifth Third Bank - At Fifth Third Bank, we are always listening to new ideas so that we can strengthen our commitment to you and the communities we serve. They are currently expanding in Florida and South Carolina.
Pretzelmaker – they are expanding into several states, and are offering the opportunity to become a franchisee to develop and operate Stores which specialize in selling hand-rolled soft pretzels of various flavors, frozen pretzels, pretzel dogs, pretzel bites, and other pretzel-related products and toppings, and related food items and beverages. We offer 2 types of Stores: (a) Traditional Stores; and (b) Non-Traditional Stores. In addition, if you own and operate a Store, in certain circumstances we will offer you the right to offer and sell products at a separate location that we approve (“Satellites”).
Tidal Wave Auto Spa - Tidal Wave Auto Spa’s roots stem all the way back to the year 1999 when Scott and Hope Blackstock decided to add a car wash to their Thomaston, Georgia-based auto service center. We started with a simple, 5 bay self-service wand wash. Soon, we expanded the wash with a newly-designed, specialty mud bay, which proved to be a big hit with ATV and ORV enthusiasts.

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Retailsphere’s Latest Expanding Retailers

RetailSphere has thousands of expanding retailers and the contacts for reaching out

Ample Hills Creamery - Every day, we wake up hoping that today will be the day we make the best ice cream ever. We aren’t afraid to think outside of the box, get creative or make a few mistakes along the way. It’s this mindset that has empowered us to imagine the whimsical flavors that we’re known for! We make all of our ice cream from start to finish. They have 10 locations and fast expanding.
LaVida Massage - Each LaVida Massage location brings this mission to life as a comfortable Wellness Center offering highly customizable massage services and beneficial products. Likewise, our licensed Massage Therapists and Estheticians can help you better understand what may be appropriate for your healthcare routine. By maintaining a clean, relaxing space, each Center caters to the busy, active lifestyles of our guests. LaVida is expanding in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
T.J.Maxx - T.J. Maxx was founded in 1976, and together with Marshalls, forms The Marmaxx Group, the largest off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. With stores across the U.S., including Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, T.J. Maxx also operates an e-commerce site, tjmaxx.com, launched in 2013. T.J. Maxx is expanding in several states nationwide.
Daylight Donut - The Daylight Donut Flour Company, LLC, is a privately held enterprise with nearly a thousand retail outlets in 28 states and close to a dozen international markets. Daylight Donut is expanding in Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas.
Insomnia Cookies - Insomnia Cookies was born out of the dislike of heavy meals late at night, love of food delivery, and the realization that by the time you get hungry at night, nothing is open. The concept was founded by Seth Berkowitz in 2003 from his dorm room while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Berkowitz started baking and delivering warm cookies to students late-night on campus... and Insomnia Cookies was born. Insomnia Cookies is expanding nationwide with a massive growth strategy.

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