CHICAGO—The holiday shopping season is already underway, and researchers from several of the nation's top real estate firms say they see many positive signs. As reported in GlobeSt.com earlier this week, for example, JLL officials predicted that sales would grow between 3.5% and 4.0% over last year's totals.
And Cushman & Wakefield predicted a similar amount of growth in a recent webinar that examined the impact of e-commerce on the supply chain and brick-and-mortar retail. The program, “Bricks vs. Clicks,” focused on why Cyber Monday has begun eclipsing Black Friday, and how the growth of e-commerce will influence the market in 2017 and beyond.
Ben Conwell, the company's commerce fulfillment practice group leader, and a former real estate director for Amazon, and Garrick Brown, head of retail research for the Americas, led the discussion.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
