Q1 2019 | Houston Retail | Research & Forecast Report

HOUSTON - April 25, 2019 - PRLog -- Retail Trends
Commentary by Hal P. Colbert, Senior Vice President

The advent of the internet and online shopping created rhetoric about the end of brick and mortar retail and the retail apocalypse was just around the corner as brick and mortar retail's end was near.

Now years after these predictions, studies show that brick and mortar isn't going away anytime soon. True, some retailers who either couldn't or didn't adapt have failed and fallen by the wayside. Thus bringing us to a new phase of retail where retailers have right-sized, adapted and are thriving, proving that the hysteria over "clicks" will kill "bricks" has not been a valid conclusion; however, the jury remains out as we live in a continually evolving world and the end is not yet in sight.

There have been several studies recently that have all come to the same conclusion, that... Click here to read the full report: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/colliershouston/2019+Market+Reports/2019-Q1-Retail-Houston-Report-Colliers.pdf