Digital displacement [electronic resource] How e-commerce and e-products are transforming the retail landscape
Digital displacement How e-commerce and e-products are transforming the retail landscape [electronic resource]
- [S.l.] Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management 2013
- Research Report .
The digital challenge to bricks and mortar stores goes well beyond just sales migration to online retailers of goods formerly sold in stores. The added and growing threat is the replacement of physical products with virtual goods and services - many provided free to end consumers. Even with economic recovery, less retail space will be needed, and the mix of tenants will swing more toward services over goods. Investors should be especially selective in buying and holding retail property to avoid commodity space most vulnerable to e-commerce competition.
E-COMMERCE
RETAIL SECTOR
United Kingdom
The digital challenge to bricks and mortar stores goes well beyond just sales migration to online retailers of goods formerly sold in stores. The added and growing threat is the replacement of physical products with virtual goods and services - many provided free to end consumers. Even with economic recovery, less retail space will be needed, and the mix of tenants will swing more toward services over goods. Investors should be especially selective in buying and holding retail property to avoid commodity space most vulnerable to e-commerce competition.
E-COMMERCE
RETAIL SECTOR
United Kingdom