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Do Landlords Lose When Chains Promote Web?
Retailers continue to use the Internet to drive sales, and though this makes sense, it leads some observers to wonder whether the landlords are losing out.
Sep 1, 2008 Shopping Centers Today Steve McLinden
Under pressure to squeeze as much as they can from an ever-shrinking supply of retail space, these retailers fade the line between store, Web and catalog sales.
There is more. Shoppers are increasingly eschewing the mails in favor of visiting physical stores to exchange or return items bought online or through a catalog; then they return home to order merchandise they have just seen promoted in the store but which is available only online, and this is throwing the retailers' sales-accounting systems out of whack.