{"id":322,"date":"2024-07-23T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2024-07-19T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T02:06:08","slug":"new-article-about-dark-stores-since-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"New article about Dark Stores since the COVID-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three years on, dark stores continue to manifest. In 2021, during the high point of the COVID-19 pandemic, we observed an upturn in the number of dark stores that seemed to rapidly emerge as a result of changes in shopping habits and that gained a new prominence during and after lockdowns (Bitterman and Hess, 2021). This article updates and evaluates our original assertions about the rapid proliferation of dark stores and reflects on not only the continued progression of the dark store phenomena but also examines the economic and societal changes that both influence the popularity and sustain the growth of this unique retail typology and its effects on the built environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"302\" data-attachment-id=\"323\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?attachment_id=323\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?fit=1599%2C1018&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1599,1018\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?fit=474%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?resize=474%2C302&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?resize=1024%2C652&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?resize=768%2C489&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?resize=1536%2C978&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?w=1599&amp;ssl=1 1599w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image.png?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/10.3828\/tpr.2024.24\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/doi\/10.3828\/tpr.2024.24\">Click here to read the article in <em>Town Planning Review<\/em>.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years on, dark stores continue to manifest. In 2021, during the high point of the COVID-19 pandemic, we observed an upturn in the number of dark stores that seemed to rapidly emerge as a result of changes in shopping habits and that gained a new prominence during and after lockdowns (Bitterman and Hess, 2021). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New article about Dark Stores since the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","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-5c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=281","url_meta":{"origin":322,"position":0},"title":"New journal article about urban retail and the COVID-19 pandemic","author":"dbhess","date":"November 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-26-at-12.53.17.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":311,"url":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=311","url_meta":{"origin":322,"position":1},"title":"New article about LGBTQ+ community organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic","author":"dbhess","date":"May 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Community Support Organizations in Gay Neighborhoods: Assessing Engagement During the Covid\u201019 Pandemic Click here for the Open Access article in Urban Planning. 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