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Is brick-and-mortar retailing really dead?

Inside Retail

Industry pundits have long been tolling the bells of doom on the concept of physical stores. After all, why would customers drag themselves to a brick-and-mortar store when they can do all of their shopping online? For retailers, establishing and staffing a physical store is a significant overhead. Eliminating those costs and selling products direct to customers in their own homes sounds like a dream scenario.

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Production processes are put on show inside Dengo chocolate store in São Paulo

Dezeen

A see-through chute carrying cacao nibs winds above the heads of customers in this São Paulo chocolate shop , which has been designed by Matheus Farah e Manoel Maia Arquitetura. The shop is set inside the four-floor Dengo Factory on Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, a major avenue in São Paulo that stretches through some of the city's most affluent neighbourhoods.

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It Sings Because It Has a Song

LS Retail

©2021 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. “A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” – Maya Angelou.

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