Comment on The Recent Evolution of Physical Retail Markets: Online Retailing, Big Box Stores, and the Rise of Restaurants
Published Date
Copyright 2022
ISBN 978-0-226-81078-2
In this comment, I discuss the Lafontaine and Sivadasan paper and provide some background on measurement: how industry codes are assigned by the US Census Bureau, major development in the evolution of the retail sector, and the uneven effects of e-commerce on retail and consumer-facing service industries.