Food and beverage - an increasingly important driver of retail footfall and dwell time.

Related terms

  • Footfall

    The number of visitors passing through or entering a retail location.

  • GAFO

    General merchandise, Apparel, Furniture, and Other — a US Census grouping of the discretionary shopping-goods categories that typically anchor a shopping mall'…

  • Gross leasable area (GLA)

    The total floor area available for retail leasing in a centre.

  • High street

    A traditional retail location along a main road, as opposed to a mall.

  • Occupancy cost ratio (OCR)

    A retail tenant's total occupancy cost (rent plus service charge) as a percentage of its sales; landlords watch it to judge whether a rent is affordable and su…

  • Omnichannel

    A retail model integrating physical stores, e-commerce, app, and click-and-collect into one seamless customer journey; increasingly central to mall leasing pit…

  • Percentage rent

    Additional rent a tenant pays as a percentage of sales above an agreed breakpoint, on top of base rent; it lets landlords share in a store's upside while guara…

  • Retail gravity model

    A method borrowed from physics that predicts how much trade a centre draws from surrounding areas based on its size and distance from shoppers; used to size ca…