Can retail survive the perfect storm, in the physical world at least? The headwinds of dwindling foot traffic, the headwinds of mounting costs, the headwinds of inefficient deployments of time and capital and people?
The timeline is long enough so that retail can in fact emerge from the torrents well-positioned to capture the fancy of consumers coming in for a look, a feel and ultimately a buy of merchandise that dwells on store shelves, as Sean Arietta, founder and CEO of DotDashPay, noted to PYMNTs’ Karen Webster in the latest Topic TBD give and take.