Posted on BisNow.com | April 10, 2019 View Original Article Here There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies and, apparently, retail statistics. A recent U.S. Department of Commerce retail report showed non-store sales eclipsed general merchandise sales by a narrow margin in February, a first in the history … [Read more...]
E-Commerce Poised to Make More Demands on Industrial
Posted on GlobeSt.com | February 12, 2019 View Original Article Here Chicago, IL—Backlogs at factories are elevated, retailers are competing for last-mile storage facilities and the labor market remains tight with workers increasingly hard to find and costly to attract and retain. The state of the e-commerce industrial … [Read more...]
The demise of brick-and-mortar retail has been greatly exaggerated
Posted on RetailCustomerExperience.com | July 11, 2017 Written by Ifti Ifhar, CEO, ComQi View Original Article There's been no end of stories lately about retail store closures, layoffs and bankruptcies, but the real story isn't about physical retail dying. It's about evolution — and that outlook is very … [Read more...]