Australian Centre of Retail Studies has revealed that 68% of retailers have declared that stores play the most vital role for shoppers and each store in three plans to increase their store numbers. It is also expected that traditional stores will be strong enough that it can engulf on e-commerce and maintain their key function by reinventing themselves more rapidly to best merge shopping in stores as well as online, which would be a biggest challenge in the presence of online giant like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) .
The world number two retailer, Carrefour’s head Georges Plassat, has declared that he is completely influenced that click and mortar is the future, he said while referring to the blending of shopping in stores and online sales. He also added in his comment that over two-thirds of his group’s sales comes from store.
Mr. Plassat said that some people think particularly those who purely work on the Internet, that they will be able to deliver everyone with a liter of milk each day. As it is still a dream, but if it comes true it will definitely become a nightmare due to the cost of energy.
Head of Vente-privee.com, a French e-commerce firm, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, said formerly those company which pure deal in online should follow the foot of traditional retailers and foresee that fashion e-tailer ASOS would finally unwrap its individual stores. He also added, pure companies that are only e-marketers or pure traditional stores owners are finished, because now there is cross-channel and multi-channel, while e-commerce is merely a new distribution channel.
The UK biggest department store firm’s John Lewis, is still expanding stores, the firm head of John Lewis Online, Mark Lewis, has said consumers desire to merge visiting stores with pure online. Stores has major role in this regard, the company previously accounts for over a quarter of group sales and is likely to ultimately hit 40%. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares dropped -1.83% to $304.47 in current session.
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