The World Economic Forum noted that COVID-19 was spreading as early as December of 2019. When it exploded onto the news in early 2020, economic pundits weren't paying it much notice. It was, after all ...

Talk of a “retail apocalypse” has swept American media in the past decade, with the dramatic expansion of high-speed home internet and e-commerce sparking concern about the future of brick-and-mortar ...

Around 2014, the E-commerce boom had taken hold, and retail store closings started to outpace store openings. It was an era known as the retail apocalypse. Each year, E-commerce took a larger and ...

For years, predictions about online shopping centered on a coming collapse of U.S. storefronts. Research on purchases of everyday essentials, however, suggests that brick-and-mortar retail proved much ...

Somehow, the shopping center apocalypse ended up with more stores, not fewer. My trusty spreadsheet tracked the growth in overall shopping space in California and nationwide by analyzing CoStar data ...

Unlike in other markets, Southeast Asia's malls are in a good situation as they embrace experiential retail and adapt to consumer tastes A cursory look at the ranking of the world's largest shopping ...

eCommerce continues to grow faster than overall retail activity as digital channels gain share of consumer spending. Census data shows eCommerce accounted for 16.6% of retail sales in the fourth ...