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Milkrun seeks investment as a perfect economic storm hits instant delivery

Inside Retail

That reticence was backdropped by significant operating costs at Milkrun, which eschews the independent contractor model and uses employees to deliver groceries. At the same time, the return of in-person shopping after Covid-19 restrictions bit into the sector’s lockdown-era market share.

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What US mall operators can learn from their global peers

Inside Retail

The reason has little to do with design and everything to do with their fundamental business model, which has almost always incorporated the greatest foot traffic drivers of them all: hypermarkets and supermarkets. He also anticipates that a number of the departing rue21 tenancies will return under the retailer’s new ownership.