Retail time machine

The end of the decade is a time to look into the future and try to answer some crucial questions. For example, what will be the shape of shopping centres to come? One answer seems to be obvious: they will still be shopping centresMladen PetrovYou know a significant change on the retail market is taking place when high-end brands such as Prada and Louis Vuitton have finally backed down and started exploring the opportunities for online retailing to add to their high street locations. As the list of luxury retailers seduced by the internet grows, the question over the future of traditional shopping – including malls – now arises. What does the future, or at least the next couple of decades, hold in store for shopping centres?At the turn of the new century, Jones Lang LaSalle published its ‘Retail Future, 2010’ report, detailing the company’s vision of the future at the time. What did the analysts get right in their predictions for economic, technological, so