Clicks to bricks: shoppers return to stores as e-commerce cools post-covid

Clicks to bricks: shoppers return to stores as e-commerce cools post-covid
Online-only retailers are losing customers. (Image: Getty)
Gregor Thompson
Retail consumer habits are evolving once again as covid-19 pandemic trends unravel.One major change is a reversal of the gains made by e-retailers, director of Coriolis Research Tim Morris told BusinessDesk.On May 10, The Warehouse Group said it would close down its e-commerce division TheMarket.Seven weeks earlier, when group chief executive Nick Grayston indicated that TheMarket would either be sold or closed, he told BusinessDesk that the website's downfall was due to a losing battle with Chinese giants Temu and Shein, difficulties with...

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