【Economist】Retail parks：Clicks and mortar

中文导读疫情之前，线下零售业的市场份额不断被网购蚕食，疫情更是大大加快了这一进程。然而，位于城市边缘地带的零售园区受到的冲击则小得多，甚至有要成为后疫情时代的赢家的征兆，这是为何？Out ofdoors and out of town is a winning combinationTimes were tough for offline retail before covid-19. Rising costs and tepid sales growth had squeezed margins; online shopping was filching market share. According to the Centre for Retail Research, an analytics firm, by early 2020 high streets had around 50,000 fewer shops than a decade before, a drop of 13%.Then the pandemic struck. During the first lockdown, customer numbers for all retail locations plummeted. In-town shopping centres were the worst hit and slowest to bounce back: data from another analytics firm, Springboard, show that footfall in the first week ………………………………