{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Ground Truth","title":"Why Grocery Anchors Still Win","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1085,"description":"Why grocery anchors still win — with Kevin BissellFor 35 years, Kevin Bissell has been walking grocery stores. Not the executive tour, not the quarterly analyst visit — the actual aisles, the back of the produce section, the parking lot at 11am on a Tuesday. He's the Senior Vice President of Real Estate Research at CRE360 Partners, and he's spent three and a half decades building the kind of knowledge about grocery real estate that doesn't live in any database.\nIn this first episode of The Ground Truth, host Mike Law sits down with Kevin to ask a simple question: with e-commerce, delivery apps, and everyone predicting the death of physical retail, why does the grocery-anchored shopping center just keep outperforming?\nThe conversation goes deep on what Kevin actually looks for when he steps foot in a new market, why traffic data and cell-phone analytics only tell part of the story, and why regional grocers are quietly winning in markets where the national chains can't compete.\nIn this episode:Why the grocery anchor is still the traffic engine of the shopping centerWhat Kevin looks at in the first hour of evaluating a new marketThe difference between a site's demographics on paper and what the ingress-egress actually looks likeWhy cell-phone traffic data is \"10 pieces of a 20-piece jigsaw puzzle\"What HEB is doing in Texas that most national grocers can't replicateThe regional grocer comeback — and why understanding the local customer still winsThe one thing landlords and developers most often get wrong about grocery anchorsAbout the guestKevin Bissell is SVP Real Estate Research at CRE360 Partners. Before joining CRE360, Kevin led research at Weingarten Realty for 17 years and spent five years at MTN, the industry's premier grocery analytics firm. He's completed grocery sales forecasts and market studies for retailers, landlords, developers, and municipalities across all 50 states.\nAbout the showThe Ground Truth is a podcast for retail real estate operators,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2U12X6EeOVFOq0MuSSwDJxWEYWvWHv6c_oVosMS_e2Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNDkz/NjMwYTk4NDExODky/MDZmMzI0N2E3ZDY0/ZjQwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}