With the continued rise of online shopping,     Amazon’s recent $5 discount if you left the store and bought with them, eBay countering with a $10 offer to return, Groupon launching a buy local promotion, and considering this interview with Marc Andreessen on his predications for 2012; there can be no doubt retail is going through a phase of serious distruption.

With high street vacancy rates rising in the UK and here in Canada – at least in my neighbourhood – plenty of empty stores, combined with new retail ventures choosing to go online due to cost and reach; I am thinking through a simple idea which, for lack of a better title, I’m calling CoRetail.

Read More…