{"id":33296,"date":"2017-01-08T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T21:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/clicks-versus-bricks-online-retail-killing-it"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:52:19","slug":"clicks-versus-bricks-online-retail-killing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/clicks-versus-bricks-online-retail-killing-it","title":{"rendered":"Clicks Versus Bricks: Online Retail Killing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/clicks-versus-bricks-online-retail-killing-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I do luv online retail; my concern is will we wake up to a day with an online hangover where mid- and small-size towns\/ cities no longer have the bricks-and-mortars to visit. I just hope we don\u2019t go too overboard like we have on other things.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the ongoing battle between traditional brick and mortar retail and online commerce, online retail has been killing it.<\/p>\n<p>While Amazon is clearly the biggest beneficiary of this trend, there are many other companies benefiting as well.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the tremendous growth opportunity, traditional retail ETFs have very little exposure to online retailers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4035059-clicks-versus-bricks-online-retail-killing\">http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4035059-clicks-versus-bricks...il-killing<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I do luv online retail; my concern is will we wake up to a day with an online hangover where mid- and small-size towns\/ cities no longer have the bricks-and-mortars to visit. I just hope we don\u2019t go too overboard like we have on other things. In the ongoing battle between traditional brick and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56089,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33296\/revisions\/56089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}