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Retailers and mall owners will have to change what malls look like in a challenging post-Covid environment, pivoting to a technology-enhanced, multi-purpose destination, according to a recent report from Deloitte Canada. Traditional shopping malls, born of suburban development in the postwar-period, were already dying before the pandemic. Covid-19 will likely provide an accelerated coup-de-grace to malls as consumers more deeply embrace e-commerce and avoid indoor shopping facilities in an ongoing pandemic context.
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