The U.S. Needs 1 Billion More Square Feet of Industrial Space: Time to Invest?
Online retail is here to stay -- and it will continue to have massive implications for real estate. Most people focus on the negative here, worried that physical stores are going to disappear (likely an overstated risk). However, there's a positive side to this as well, as more online sales means more demand for industrial real estate owned by landlords like Prologis (NYSE: PLD). Here's a look at what's going on and how you can benefit as an investor.
Even before the pandemic, brick-and-mortar retailers were dealing with the so-called retail apocalypse. Consumers were increasingly buying online, not in stores. The deeper take here is that financially weak retailers weren't keeping up with customer trends, including, but not limited to, a desire to buy online. Failing to provide what customers want, from on-trend fashions to the buying experience, is a quick way to go out of business, and many laggard retailers did just that.
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