Even as it appears that the new year will bring a new wave of store closings -- including potentially the Neiman Marcus Dallas downtown flagship -- there are plenty of new stores slated to open their doors this year. In fact a few snuck in their openings in the last few weeks of 2025 getting a headstart and benefiting from the Christmas shopping season.
Here are our picks from the top new store to put on your storing list for this year.
Netflix House: When was the last time a streaming service opened a retail store? How about never. That didn’t stop Netflix from opening two location late last year, outside of Philadelphia in King of Prussia, PA, and in Dallas at the Galleria mall. Both are the very definition of experiential retail with participatory attractions (each with their own hefty price tag) as well as a restaurant, a bar, game room and of course gift shop. A very exciting concept.
Wayfair: The online home furnishings giant is following up its initial full-line store that opened 18 months ago in the Chicagoland market with new locations this year in Atlanta and Denver. At 125,000-square-feet-plus, these represent the full gamut of the retailer’s product line-up from furniture to home décor to kitchen and bath. Already Wayfair says online sales in the Chicago market have benefited from the physical location and we would expect the same thing to happen when stores number two and three debut this year. And coming in 2027 is an additional store just north of New York City in Yonkers, NY.
Von Maur: We’ll stretch the calendar a bit because this won’t open its doors until 2027 but for this regional department store chain with a classic merchandising format, its latest store in Freehold, NJ, about an hour away from New York City, will represent its first foray into the greater metropolitan New York market. We guarantee shoppers will be surprised what they see if they’ve been used to Macy’s and JCPenney.
Buc-ee’s: The Texas-based chain has redefined what a highway rest stop is all about and this year it will expand to three new states: Ohio, Arizona and Arkansas. Its travel-center-on-steroids concept, in case you haven’t seen one yet, combine 100-pump gas stations with 50,000-square-feet retail stores and the biggest, cleanest rest rooms this side of Disney. The BBQ is pretty damn good too.