We’ve all been at it – shifting our shopping online even before it was actually illegal to go into shops. Pre-pandemic, 20% of our retailing was online, a proportion that surged to over 35% during lockdowns, before falling back more recently.
We talk a lot about what this means for the decline of high streets or the growth in delivery vehicles (I spent last week dodging a fleet of Amazon Prime vans in rural Suffolk). But the online delivery revolution is heralding a wider transformation of our economic geography.
