CRETech
April 17, 2019
As soon as next year, 100 million consumers in much of the world will be using augmented reality and virtual reality in a retail context, either online or in store, according to a forecast by research firm Gartner.
“Retailers are under increasing pressure to explain the purpose of physical stores, and take control of the fulfillment and return process for cross-channel execution,” Gartn...
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As soon as next year, 100 million consumers in much of the world will be using augmented reality and virtual reality in a retail context, either online or in store, according to a forecast by research firm Gartner.
“Retailers are under increasing pressure to explain the purpose of physical stores, and take control of the fulfillment and return process for cross-channel execution,” Gartn...
Your stores may be haunted — but not by the supernatural.
New England supermarket retailer Market Basket recently made national news by publicly assuring customers that its store in Wilmington, Mass. is not haunted by a Victorian-era ghost. While the odds of any brick-and-mortar store having spirits of the dead wandering the aisles range from remote to impossible, your stores may still have s...
The venture capital industry is under attack. Prominent VC firm Andreessen Horowitz is “
New York City’s real-estate market is usually relatively resilient during recessions. But today, its largest renter of commercial space is a single “co-working” office manager, which could add extra risks for the city’s landlords when the next recession hits, according to S&P Ratings.
The growth of WeWork and similar co-working spaces since the financial crisis has added risk to the...
CREtech CEO Michael Beckerman and CIO Ashkán Zandieh make Real Estate Forum's list of CRE's Top Tech Enterprisers.
As the pressure mounts on retailers and logistics companies to meet ever-faster delivery times, the idea of on-demand space within warehouses is gaining traction.
Online booking systems to give companies access to the space they need for limited periods of time are already in operation across Europe and in the U.S.
In the U.S., UPS