The first two New York City Labor Days took place on the 5th of September, but in 1884, the third annual New York City Labor Day holiday was scheduled for the first Monday in September, and that date stuck.
While the store prototype is 10,000 square feet, stores slated to open generally range 10,000 to 17,000 square feet, significantly smaller than the typical U.S. supermarket, but also two to three times the size of the typical U.S. convenience store.lthough the look-and-feel of the stores are not significantly different, product assortment is reduced. In addition, the stores cost $5 million less to build, $1.5 million less to stock and require 25% less employees than the typical Lowe's; however, sales per square foot are about 84% of the typical store.
Strip malls are usually comprised of a series of retail stores whose average size approximates about 1,000 square feet each. As such, most strip malls total less than 20,000 square feet in size. They typically have good visibility due to being generally located on the perimeters of densely populated neighborhoods, heavily trafficked commercial streets that have easy access, or on or near corners.