The new Disney Store at the Mall of America may share its kid clientele with nearby Legoland and Nickelodeon Universe. But the retailer shares its heart with an outlet just several feet away: the Apple store.

For two months this holiday season, a bunch of new stores might “pop-up” downtown or in your neighborhood, but by January, they’ll be gone seemingly as fast as the trendy products they carry move from their shelves, writes Kayleigh Kulp in this article on the Travel Channel’s website.

Target will open new Apple-branded store-within-a-store locations in select stores, enabling the consumer electronics retailer to expand its retail reach into smaller metro areas.

The Merchandising Matters team traveled to the 102nd annual National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York City earlier this week. This being our second year in attendance, we were excited to see what key trends evolved over the past year, what the new buzz words are in retail, and where the retail industry is headed in the next year.

SymphonyIRI recently published a new report entitled “Merchandising Trends: Driving Consumption through Shopper Marketing.” In it, they note the role merchandising plays in retail across various consumer packaged goods categories.