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The U.S. has 5X more physical retail space-per-capita than France and 10X Germany.

Since the pandemic started, ecommerce share of total credit card spending has doubled to ~30%.

This has yikes written all over it.
To quote @benedictevans (and to echo @web): There is a lot of "inevitability debt" stored up in the overbuilding of suburban store space in the U.S.

Maybe we'll turn some of those burger joints and Jamba Juices into homes.
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