It’s All Specialty

There’s still a future for brick and mortar.

Leor Grebler
Nov 3 · 3 min read
Photo by David Shankbone [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Retail is heading towards two poles: online commodity and offline speciality. You can see this most in areas of cities that are becoming gentrified where hipster lunch places spring up like mushrooms after the rain. The offline commodity shops are losing ground. Kmart, Sears, Target — none of them went the specialty route. At the same time, Trader Joes has…

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