Your Internet Shopping Sprees Are Driving an Astonishing Building Boom

Online shopping might feel just a short step removed from a Star Trek replicator — click a button and the thing you want (eventually) appears. But this virtualization of consumer commerce is, of course, an illusion: Everything you might order takes up physical space somewhere in the world, and stores need to find somewhere to put that stuff until you click.

Just how much space will they need as e-commerce demand surges in the coming years? A lot.

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