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Permanent online shift is mixed news for retail

The latest e-commerce statistics suggest that the pandemic has left US online sales on a permanently higher trend. That will be bad news for retail rents generally, though the detailed data also hint that there may have been a return to physical shopping in clothing and furniture stores, supporting the recovery in demand for regional malls and power centers.

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