Brick and mortar (B&M) retailing is an endangered species as more consumers adopt to shop online. While retailers may die, B&Yard retailing is here to stay. It has gone through several transformations from the location to the convenience to the in-shop experience advantage. In the post Covid globe, B&G retailing will not merely survive but as well thrive by repositioning from selling merchandise to offering value-added services and from a depression-tech to high-tech experience in the shop.

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Future of Brick and Mortar Retailing: How Will it Survive

and Thrive?

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Abstract

Brick and mortar (B&Yard) retailing is an endangered species every bit more consumers prefer to

shop online. While retailers may die, B&Thou retailing is here to stay. It has gone through

several transformations from the location to the convenience to the in-shop experience

reward. In the postal service Covid world, B&1000 retailing volition not only survive just besides thrive by

reposi- tioning from selling merchandise to offer value-added ser- vices and from a low-

tech to high-tech experience in the shop.

From the Periodical of Strategic Marketing

Jagdish N. Sheth (2021) Future of brick and mortar retailing: how will information technology survive and thrive?,

Journal of Strategic Marketing, 29:7, 598-607, DOI: ten.1080/0965254X.2021.1891128

Brick and mortar retailing is going through an enormous transition being disrupted by the e-

commerce market exchanges including Amazon, Alibaba, and Flipkart in different parts of the

world. What'south the hereafter? Will brick and mortar (B&K) retailing survive? If it survives, what

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volition exist the new avatar or reincarnation that will take place? My own view is that brick and

mortar retailing will survive and fifty-fifty thrive equally it has survived over time with many

transformations and disruptions (Sheth, 2020).

Nosotros'll accept a historical view and suggest that the brick and mortar stores will survive in the

hereafter by transforming itself from depression tech to high tech, and from selling merchandise to

selling value-added services for which the consumer is willing and able to pay. In other

words, it is the unbundling of free services into paying services, only like what the airlines

accept washed: you pay for excess baggage and even for a seating assignment.

The global retail sector achieved a acquirement of 23 USD trillion in 2017, which is bigger than

the U.S. economy and should continue to grow to 28 USD trillion past 2020 with an average

annual growth rate of 3.eight% since 2008 (Wood, 2016). That growth rate is significant because

the majority of retailing revenues are in advanced economies, and three.viii% is a pregnant

number compared to the Gross domestic product growth of 1.v% or maybe two% in almost advanced economies.

The retail sector represents 31% of the world's GDP and employs millions of people.

Furthermore, these numbers practise not account for greenbacks-based informal retailing, such every bit street

vendors and small rural shops in many parts of the world, and especially in emerging

markets.

E-commerce itself has grown significantly at 23% per annum betwixt 2012 and 2019. It will

reach xv% of the total retail sector by 2020. In 2020, the retail sector grew by 2.4% in the

last quarter which includes the Christmas season; the east-commerce growth was at an

astonishing rate of 47%. It is growing faster than 3.8% average growth and, therefore, will

grab upward eventually from the physical brick and mortar shopping to digital or online shopping.

E-commerce will abound faster due to the pandemic lockdown and store closings. It is likely to

continue after the pandemic subsides. Consumers enjoy the convenience of online ordering

and home commitment of well-nigh everything, and surprisingly for daily necessities, such as

paper products and fresh produce.

The brick and mortar retail sector is in trouble. Globe-grade retailers such as Toys 'R' U.s.,

RadioShack, and Sears are all nether Chapter 11 protection (defalcation). Besides, many iconic

brands including H&M, Ralph Lauren, and Michael Kors are too selectively closing stores

and reducing their concrete presence. More than 9,300 stores were closed in 2019 in the

U.S. lonely, a 63% increase from 2018 when more 5,700 stores were closed (Peterson,

2019).

A large number of store closures in 2019 were primarily big retail chain stores. The

numbers were staggering: Payless Shoes, 2,500 stores (they decided to quit the game and

go for Chapter 11 protection); Gymboree, 805 Stores; Wearing apparel Befouled, 650 stores. And these are

just some examples. In 2020, Covid pandemic has also forced many contained retailers to

close down as well. The reality is very grim.

Why do expert retailers go bad?

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The old theories are the Wheel of Retailing (Hollander, 1960), which means, equally you offset in a

no- frills environs, like the no-frills airlines, y'all do very well considering you lot offering a nifty

value to the customers and low price is a good mechanism. Now you outgrow and you become

into a more than expensive location such as the 5th Avenue in New York. This makes your cost of

doing concern (overheads) high. Somebody else starts a new business organisation in the infinite you

vacated with some other retail concept or merchandise and competes with you. A 2nd

explanation of why practiced retailers go bad is the product life cycle concept and the inevitability

of nascency, growth, and death. Only there are retailers who are in business for more than than hundred

years.

We also have a large number of formulas for retail gravitation: consumers shop primarily

within five to vii miles or 10 kilometers (Bucklin, 1966; Grether, 1983; Reilly, 1931). That

theory is likewise out of the window now because people shop from all over the earth or from all

over the world on east-commerce platforms.

In reality, nigh retailers go bad when they are either unable, or more importantly unwilling to

suit with the changing ecosystem in which they exist or thrive, such every bit technology,

nontraditional competition, and consumer lifestyles (Sheth, 2007).

Today, consumers go to Amazon and buy ordinary daily necessities, such every bit toothpaste and

newspaper towels because of the convenience of home delivery rather than go out of their home

and drive a brusk distance to get to a neighborhood grocery store. Convenience matters to

consumers. They are driven more than and more past time poverty and not just by income.

Therefore, stores that deliver to you online at home are surviving especially during the Covid

shutdowns. Consumers are ownership daily necessities at Amazon, Walmart, and Target. These

include shampoo, toilet paper, and napkins in addition to buying loftier ticket items.

Today, you tin can buy everything on Amazon. Its inventory is massive compared to what a retail

store can keep upward especially considering it is as well a market place exchange. My view is that this will

be further accelerated with smartphones, five M networks, bogus intelligence, virtual reality,

and blockchain technology as they all get mainstream. As the bogus becomes real,

retailers will have to reposition themselves for survival and growth.

Evolution of retailing

Let us review the development of brick and mortar (B&M) retailing offset, and and so advise

repositioning of the brick and mortar retail stores. Retailing has a fascinating historyFigure 1.

Historically, the 3 laws of retailing have been location, location, location, which is how

retailing began. In the agricultural economy, these were bazaars or trading posts on the silk

route, for case, and in the U.S., there were trading posts from the east coast to the due west

coast. Bazaars became shopping centers. Location was very key. When competition was

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able to equalize the location advantage it gave way to convenience: how do you brand it

piece of cake for the consumer to practice shopping by accepting credit cards in addition to bringing cash

or writing for case.

In one case convenience was equalized, retailing pivoted toward client experience and

eventually, as suggested in this paper, retailing's future will be with value-added services. At

each inflection betoken, retailing has transformed itself to survive and even thrive. Retailing is

not dead: retailers may exist expressionless, but retailing is here to stay.

Repositioning of the brick and mortar retailing

Retailing needs to reposition from selling merchandise to offering value-added services. It

also needs to reposition from low tech to high tech to enhance customer feel with

respect to merchandising and atmosphericsFigure 2.

The vertical dimension is low-tech to high-tech. How to make the retail experience with digital

technology more than heady by having video game arcade (electronic games machines) that

consumers can go and play. 2nd, the focus of retailing e'er has been selling the

merchandise either by the sales clerks or by self-service. Where you lot locate the merchandise,

point of sale and experience is pretty depression tech. Information technology is high touch today just it too needs to be

high tech. And the focus must shift from trade selling to offering more value-added

services.

Fivealue-added services are those for which the customers are willing to pay. There are a

number of examples of value-added services and some of them are more profitable than the

merchandise. I was surprised many years agone (almost 30 years ago) when I learned from the

Chairman of Sears that out of the 24 USD billion merchandise retail group, the most

profitable businesses were none of the merchandise (Kenmore appliances, Craftsman tools,

etc.).

The 2 most profitable businesses were credit carte financing and extended warranty

service. 34% of the full profit came from credit carte du jour charges and 30% came from the

extended warranty services on the products that Sears sold. Sears had more l 1000000

credit card holders, more than than Visa or Mastercard at that time. Hither are eight

recommendations of value-added services. Each retailer has to decide which of these value

added services they have the capacity and the adequacy to implementFigure 3.

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1. The first strategy is ordering online just delivering at home or pick up at the store. This

is a pretty common phenomenon today. This is also called the omnichannel. The best

case of omnichannel is in the pizza delivery industry. What is a pizza commitment

model? You dine in if y'all desire or you tin can take a takeout guild or the delivery at home.

I think the same thing one can do in retailing, only you price information technology differently. You accuse information technology

differently depending upon the schedule and urgency. Surprisingly, for the home

delivery of products, Amazon is leading the way. Brick and mortar companies have yet

to learn how to organize and evangelize from physical locations to home delivery or at least

to implement a store pick up strategy. They are all experimenting. This includes Kroger

supermarket and Walmart.

2. The second service strategy is financing and having payments over time. I of the

largest industries that survives on financing is the automobile dealers. Very few

consumers can afford such an expensive durable production. And financing does not have

to exist limited to the durable or expensive products, such as dwelling house mortgage or motorcar

financing. One can finance grocery products every bit they do in emerging markets where the

local merchant (often a very modest owner- managed grocery store) has a lifelong

relationship with consumers in the neighborhood. A store employee would come to the

home of the client and deliver the products, take the society, and the store owner

also finances in case the customer does not have income that particular month.

Financing is a very key ingredient in the retail setting. There are companies such every bit

large furniture retailers (for example, Rooms to Go) who will offering five to six years of

financing given such low-interest rates. And, you don't accept to accept any money upfront

to buy the merchandise, in this instance, the furniture.

3. A 3rd strategy is to focus on public assistance programs. In the U.South., food stamps are

1 of them, simply information technology is not limited to food stamps. In that location are many government-

subsidized programs for food, rent, utility, and medical services for the depression-income

consumers. Tapping into that market place will require a different skill set altogether, and

dissimilar from the consumers who come with food stamps to make payment for the

groceries they purchase. This is much more a B2B institutional selling by tapping into the

government budgets both at the federal and the country level. Public help programs

are more or less universal and worldwide. Information technology represents a multibillion industry.In

emerging markets, the cellular telephones took off because of prepaid service unlike in

advanced countries. You pay the money upfront. You have no credit card, no credit

record either, and you lot pay equally you use the mobile phone.How can prepaid services be

possible to offer? It requires a lot more automation of sales promotions and discounts.

It'southward very possible to offer a big corporeality of online sales and offering online promotions,

to bring the people to the store. Unfortunately, well-nigh brick and mortar retailers take

large legacy systems. Very similar to banking, both take the same legacy IT

infrastructure. Retail banking (going to a bank branch) is a very tiresome process.

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four. The fourth strategy is smart loyalty programs. What the brick and mortar retailers tin can

practice is to invest in what I call smart loyalty programs. Loyalty programs are there. Nosotros all

have several loyalty cards, but they're dumb. At that place is no adept data mining of historical

records at any grocery store or department store. History can tell the retailers what the

next all-time thing each customer should exist offered to members of the loyalty programs.

Almost retailers take historical records but no analytics is done to target customers on a

1-on-one basis.

v. The fifth strategy, peculiarly for large department stores, is installation and mainte-

nance. Dwelling house Depot and Lowe'due south (which are do-it-yourself outlets) also offer value-

added services, not only financing, and not just home delivery, but also an installation

by professional certified people. Costco, which is a very large membership retailer,

similar to Sam'south wholesale society past Walmart, is targeting services for their growth in

addition to Costco trade. These include optical (middle spectacles) and travel

services in the store. Walmart is already offering many services. This was true for

Sears Roebuck at ane time, including Allstate Insurance. Services are where the futurity

is for retailers.

6. The sixth strategy is used equally merchandise, specially for consumer electronics and

department stores. Lots of trade tin can be refurbished and i can offer it at a

carve up location. Goodwill Stores are a groovy case. Goodwill is a not-for-profit

system. It provides jobs, simply their retail stores have get a style identify to

store for donated items at present. In fact, in their premium retail stores, Goodwill has

splendid mode (habiliment) and high-end furniture, which people have never used, merely

they desire to give it away as a charity.As a recipient, the donor gets a taxation benefit and

the Goodwill shop re-merchandises information technology properly.Similarly, there are many recertified

products in consumer electronics such as smart phones, headsets, and smart

speakers. Of course, neighborhood garage sales are withal popular in America. Flea

markets are likewise popular. All of them are unorganized forms of retailing. How tin can they

be organized? Used merchandise is an important component of the market except

fresh groceries due to food safety laws and regulations. For instance, used car market

is very large. Anything that's durable (furniture & cars), semi- durable (garments), i

tin recycle it or even rent it.

seven. The seventh strategy is to enlarge the scale and scope of festivals and other events.

Consumers spend extra money during festivals and holidays. We exercise have the

Christmas and Thanksgiving sales, for instance. Prc has a one-day sale. India has a

Diwali new year's day's auction. There are so many festivals out at that place, especially at a local

level. Each county has a County Fair in America. Each urban center has its ain festivals at a

local level. A large multinational corporation often has a central festival strategy group

and it is implemented locally. Think global Act local is a very artistic approach to

revenue growth through creating excitement and bring people to the store. Festivals as

a strategy will require a testify business mentality, whether those are religion-based or

culturally anchored holidays and festivals.

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viii. Some other valueadded service offering is to offer a subscription-based App. I remember brick

and mortar stores tin develop earth-class Apps similar to online retailers. Their

ad dollars tin be used on the app itself, capable of mass personaliza- tion.

The shop App can become a social media customs similar to Facebook and

YouTube. If Facebook can do information technology, it is possible for a retail shop with a large loyalty

program to exercise information technology alone. This is especially skilful for hardware stores and department

stores which have lots of sku (stock keeping units).

These 8 strategies accept one common thing. It is the erstwhile razor and the bract principle (or

a camera and the film principle or today a printer and the jet ink principle). You give abroad the

razor, merely your margins in blades are high and the client becomes a customer for life.

Kodak invented the camera and the moving picture principle. Gillette invented the razor and the bract

principle. Hewlett Packard does the same with its printer and its ink business organisation. The best

analog brick and mortar companies tin learn is from the airline industry today. Today all of

the additional coincident services in the airline industry like meals and luggage are generating

billions of dollars of extra revenue for the airline. Ryanair in Europe has stated that they

would similar passengers to fly free because passengers tin can buy trade. Margins in the

merchan- dise are greater than in flight. It'due south similar a flying shopping center. You don't make

money on flying itself, but you brand money on the merchandise in the plane when people

are basically captive customers for one to 2-hours or longer flights.

From low tech to high tech

The second repositioning dimension is how to go from depression-tech to high-tech. Consumers are

very much becoming more and more virtual shoppers. They often like virtual experi- ences

more than than real-life experiences. In the store, virtual reality is very possible today. Information technology is also

affordable today to get into the digital engineering science at the store level one tin create an

emotive bonding more so than with sales people nosotros did at one time in a retail store.

In that location are ii fundamental parts to retailing at a shop level: sales clerks and merchandise.

Merchandising layout and brandish location, along with the sales clerks are the three

foundations of great retailing. How tin can ane make the tripod of retailing (merchandise,

atmospherics, and sales people) smart?Figure 4

1. The commencement strategy is smart checkouts. People have no time to wait in line. Amazon Become is

a skillful example. At Amazon Go, everything is cashless, there are no people to serve

you. There may be somebody only to assist in instance yous need it. Today, we do accept the

self-service checkout counters at supermarkets or at department stores, to some

extent. I recall smart checkout is very of import because it's hassle-costless. Consumers

don't similar friction when they're shopping. They take no time and they're stressed out. I

retrieve engineering can enable a good brick and mortar retailer to enhance the experience

through smart technology and make it easy to exercise business organisation.

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two. Smart mirrors are a 2d major engineering. It is being installed at present at many of the

fashion retail chains. Smart mirrors enable greater personalization and enable the

shopper to imagine how the garment or jewelry will look on her before making the

purchase decision. Consumers desire beyond convenience and consultative selling to

more than personalization.

3. A third high-tech evolution is robot assistants. Very shortly the twenty-four hour period volition come when the

robots will be the greeters. At Walmart, you don't need a man being to greet. Lowe'south,

which is a do-it-yourself visitor like to Habitation Depot, has experimen- ted with

robot assistants who come and guide you to the shelf space and bespeak out the specific

trade and not just the Isle where information technology is located. Most retailers today have a kiosk

with a reckoner when y'all walk in and so you tin observe out which merchandise is in which

aisle in their large warehouse-like space, which makes it easier to shop in a cocky-

service environs. Robots volition make it even more friendly and piece of cake. Robots can besides

have a conversation with y'all ofttimes better than a existent man beingness. I'one thousand a potent

advocate of using artificial intelligence and robot assistants in the brick and mortar

stores. Voice recognition has matured enough today with Siri and Alexa to accept a

voice-based conversation with machines.

four. The side by side high-tech strategy is to have cybercafes in stores. We do take the food courts

and we have the restaurants in most shopping malls. Harrods in England has one

whole floor devoted to restaurants. And cybercafes volition be even more relevant in

emerging economies like China and India where people don't have plenty space in

their homes and apartments. Is information technology possible that within the shop, such as Target or

Walmart to accept its own separate cybercafés? Just as Starbucks provides infinite to

relax or accept meetings while drinking coffee, the retail store can provide infinite to play

video games. The future lies with online games and online cyber challenges in games

such as Candy Beat which is more like a solitaire but interactive, engaging, and

addictive.

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5. The fifth loftier-tech strategy is online festival-axial promotions. As mentioned before,

in that location are and then many festivals especially at the local level. Every solar day there are festivals all

over the world, and the numbers are staggering. If you don't find whatever festivals, invent

one. The U.South. invented so many festivals and events because it is a nation of great

marketers. The U.S. has Presidents Twenty-four hours, Memorial Day, Labor Mean solar day, and Thanksgiving.

The U.S. created the Black Friday phenomenon. We take sales around Thanksgiving

and Christmas too as Valentine's Twenty-four hours and Halloween. It is possible to invent new

festivals for souvenir giving or ownership for themselves. Alibaba generated more than 50 USD

billion of sales in i day in Oct of this yr.

Virtual shopping volition go more than universal and in that location will be virtual shoppers clubs.

Many brick and mortar super stores are located quite far abroad from the center of the

boondocks. They provide price value in factory outlet malls. They are not every bit convenient but if

they offering the same thing to the online shoppers society they will exercise very well. The brick

and mortar retailers tin can easily create virtual shoppers commu- nities from their

databases; just as Home Shopping Network does on cablevision plat- forms and it is 24/7 all

365 days.The Home Shopping Network actually proved that concept when broadcast

television shifted to cable television, and they offered merchandise after merchan- dise

exclusively on the cable aqueduct and people bought it by watching the plan and

ordering by telephone (and now online too). In short, virtual shop- ping communities is

one more manner to add together high-tech to the brick and mortar retailing experience. This can

be offered in the store, in kiosks, or in the virtual globe on Smartphones.

6. The sixth high-tech strategy is to offering a shop App. This can be implemented by both

large national retailers as well as small neighborhood boutique stores and restaurants.

These Apps can become edutainment (education with entertainment).

7. Finally, big retailers tin can likewise have a dedicated YouTube channel. For example,

Walmart can develop a YouTube channel and provide information well-nigh its heri- tage

including its Founder Sam Walton'south legacy and how he created the largest retailer

despite entrenched competitors, such as Sears and Chiliad-Mart. The Walmart YouTube (or

Facebook) channel can besides teach consumers how to use the production or what they can

do with the product by creative uses and applications. The users may also provide their

ain unique and creative ways they employ the production. This is very possible for nearly brick

and mortar retailers no matter what their size or scope. Each retailer has the power to

create a YouTube channel with which to heighten the appointment of the customer in

the virtual world.YouTube channel has a lot of potential. It can generate not only large

amount of user generated videos but can offer sales of selective products similar to

advertis- ing on social media such as Facebook and Google.

When the artificial (virtual) becomes real, people will find more than enjoyment, more comfort, and

more security in the virtual world than in the existent world. Consumers volition migrate to the virtual

world not only but for convenience, simply also for the experience. Brick and mortar retailers

tin not only survive but as well thrive by fusion of physical and digital, not but for search of

product information merely also for omni-channel purchases as well equally social media

engagement.

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Concluding remarks

Retailing is here to stay. Retailers may be gone just retailing will not die. Information technology volition be revitalized

and repositioned for the future as it has always washed since the Industrial Revolution when

modern retailing came into existence. Evolution of retailing from location-centric to

convenience-centric, to experience-axial volition transform into value-added services enabled

by the digital technology. Successful repositioning will decide who will be the winners and

who will be the losers in the brick and mortar retailing. In 2020, Walmart and Target did well

despite the Covid-nineteen pandemic considering of the integration of their physical stores with their

online ordering and delivery. Unfortunately, JCPenney was unable to invest and integrate its

physical stores with its digital e-commerce platform.

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