Is Egghead a precursor of sales channel reformation?
• What is retail leasing’s direction? • Rent. • Fixed rent. • Percentage rent. • Use. • Term. • Exit Strategies. • The Landlord’s strategy for a wired world. • Change metaphors. • Create a tenant screen. • The rent paradox for retailers. • If not retail, what is the next best use? • A trading market for retail space. • Up ahead structural change. Endnotes. Exhibit B. Additional articles. I. Online shopping’s impact on retail leasing. Online shopping is not a new idea, nor is speculation about how it would impact retailers and space demand. What is new is how quickly it is going to impact retail property. Until recently it was an over the horizon issue but now it is in view. The rapid diffusion of INFOTECH into daily life has compressed the time for merchants to change how and where they sell. At the start of the millennium, just two years away, real property investors and lenders will confront a radically changing demand milieu for retail space brought about by the popularization of on
