Online Shopping Isn’t the Only Retail Killer

It is a temptingly simple story that haunts retail: online shopping makes the brick and mortar store redundant. Why leave the house when you have the convenience of browsing and buying from the couch?

However, evidence shows that in fact, people do like leaving the house. Data suggests there is much more to the decline of retail than online shopping.

Firstly, are physical retail spaces really losing appeal? Of the 1,500 commercial transactions captured by CoreLogic so far this year,…