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Online retail will peak, and brick-and-mortar stores will be with us forever, Unibail-Rodamco Christophe Cuvillier said on a conference call covered by Reuters. Unibail announced this week it is paying nearly $16 billion for Westfield.
The “internet will grow, but the internet cannot do everything. It’s very difficult to be profitable on the internet, particularly pure-play online retailers,” he said, citing the stores being opened by Amazon, Apple, Nespresso and Tesla. “Retailers need physical presence.”
By Edmund Mander
Director, Editor-In-Chief/SCT
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