While we continue to measure the significant impacts the pandemic has had on commercial real estate, retail businesses, and the global supply chain, business models are evolving. To satisfy growing stocking and product movement needs as well as last-mile delivery demands, the critical warehouse role is finding its way into the urban landscape, and existing storefronts are experimenting with micro fulfillment center conversions. In Chain Store Age’s recent article, Designing and Planning for Hybrid Retail, Dark Stores and Urban Warehouses, Anthony Cataldo discusses new trends in the blurring lines of retail and industrial, dark stores and q-commerce.

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