Securing holiday help has long been a challenge to large mall retailers in Connecticut, where the work force is better educated and more affluent than average.

Most of the early sales came from mall retailers.

Another warning sign, particularly for mall retailers, was the holiday success of on-line merchants.

Amazon's new apparel section, for example, is dominated by catalog companies and by mall retailers.

Many national big-box and mall retailers have arrived since the 1980s.

Patty Menges is the kind of shopper who makes mall retailers nervous.

Spencer Gifts, commonly referred to as Spencer's, is a North American mall retailer.

Spaces on upper Madison are both expensive and scarce, and rarely large enough to accommodate typical mall retailers.

Landlords and brokers talk a lot about the myriad mall retailers and big-box discounters who are bidding up the price of Manhattan's retail space.

Yes, each online vendor has a wider selection of goods than each mall retailer does.