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Tiffany & Co. is renovating the interior of its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan for the first time since it moved to the site in 1940. ... Chaos reigned at athletic shoe stores in malls across the country in early March in relation to the very limited release of Nike Jordan Retro XI sneakers. Some stores had fewer than 20 pairs and sold out within minutes of opening, leading to tense scenes. At Florin Mall, Sacramento, Calif., 60 sheriff’s deputies dressed in riot gear were needed to quell a mob. More than 200 people had crowded into the mall, but only 80 pairs of the sneakers were available, and they were evenly divided among four stores. In another incident, police used chemical spray on some customers outside FootAction USA at the Columbus (Ohio) City Center, which never opened because the scene outside the store was too rowdy.
... Cadillac Fairview presented its $50,000 Achievement in Retail Concept Award to a new store from Vancouver called bruce, which bills itself as the “anti-department store.” ... TrizecHahn vigorously denied a report in the April 2 issue of Forbes that it is trying to get rid of its 640,000-square-foot Hollywood & Highland project in Los Angeles and the Desert Passage shopping center in Las Vegas. “That’s the most appalling example of bad journalism that I’ve ever read,” Alberta Davidson, TrizecHahn’s senior vice president of marketing, told SCT. … The Mall of America was closed for eight hours one day in late March while police searched the 4.2 million-square-foot structure for fugitive Anthony Zappa. An off-duty security guard spotted Zappa running into the mall after police chased his car into one of the shopping center’s parking garages. The lockdown, which began at 10 a.m., forced the evacuation of most of the mall’s employees as well as participants in the center’s mall walkers program, mall spokeswoman Maureen Cahill told SCT. Police never located Zappa, but did find clothing believed to be his on a motorized cart abandoned near a point where cabs, shuttles and buses pick up shoppers. The closure resulted in between $1 million and $3 million in lost sales, Cahill said.

— Dave Bodamer