{"id":281,"date":"2020-11-27T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-11-26T20:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:06:16","slug":"new-journal-article-about-urban-retail-and-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"New journal article about urban retail and the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Going dark: the post-pandemic transformation of the metropolitan retail landscape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Alex Bitterman and Daniel Baldwin Hess<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the start of the 2020 crisis, nearly one-third of American households have placed an online grocery order, representing a 200 per cent surge in online grocery shopping, of which more than 26 per cent were first-time online shoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Conversion from bricks-and-mortar stores to dark stores will have an impact on the urban form and built environment, but the darkening of mom-and-pop boutiques will have a much greater effect on the long-term viability of shopping districts, central business districts and high streets (and the neighbourhoods they serve).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To read the full article in Town Planning Review<\/em> click here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going dark: the post-pandemic transformation of the metropolitan retail landscape by Alex Bitterman and Daniel Baldwin Hess Since the start of the 2020 crisis, nearly one-third of American households have placed an online grocery order, representing a 200 per cent surge in online grocery shopping, of which more than 26 per cent were first-time online … Continue reading New journal article about urban retail and the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71bvo-4x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":322,"url":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=322","url_meta":{"origin":281,"position":0},"title":"New article about Dark Stores since the COVID-19 pandemic","author":"dbhess","date":"July 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Three years on, dark stores continue to manifest. 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