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Submit Now. DTC Era. Retail Revolution. Store of the Future. Omni-channel retailing is one area where Amazon actually lags other retailers. Stores are so important in categories like groceries that Amazon opened a new brick and mortar grocery chain, Amazon Fresh earlier this year. But it will take Amazon many years before it has the kind of store network Walmart has. Amazon recently announced that customers can pickup their online orders at Amazon-4 star and Amazon Books stores.
Consumers are looking for one stop shopping. It is not a coincidence that many of the retailers performing well during the COVID pandemic offer one stop shopping. From Walmart to Target to Costco customers are seeking refuge in retailers where they can get what they are looking for in one trip.
What we are witnessing is a trend towards more convenient shopping trips. Why buy your grocery and household items online from several different retailers when you can save time by getting everything you need from Walmart. The desire for one stop shopping is not new. Think about the days when Sears was the largest retailer in the world. Consumers would spend their Saturday afternoons at the mall getting everything in one trip. The fall of Sears and other department stores has only served to usher in a new kind of department store, the big box store.
It has a different name but in many respects it serves the same function. Consumers can shop at a Walmart or a Target and get most of their weekly needs fulfilled without having to shop at multiple stores. They were struggling financially before the pandemic and then the pandemic hit making it even more difficult for consumers to keep up with cost of living.
Lowest prices came in second and fast shipping came in eighth place. Dollar General, for example opened stores in the first half of this year and plans to open 1, stores by the end of its fiscal year. These retailers all target the low end of the price spectrum. Many consumers started shopping at these retailers during the last recession and kept shopping at these stores once the recession was over.
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