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Traditional physical retail is facing a structural shift in consumption habits, not just temporary competition.
Companies with a large number of physical stores in expensive leases carry a high fixed operating cost that an online retailer doesn't bear to the same degree — a structural cost advantage favoring e-commerce.
As anchor tenants leave or shrink their physical footprint, commercial real estate owners (malls) see declining demand for space and rental income — an indirect effect that rolls backward from retail into the real estate that hosts it.
Logistics and delivery companies, and fulfillment-center infrastructure, benefit directly from the growth in e-commerce volume — the same trend hurting physical retail feeds enormous demand into this layer.
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