Editor’s Desk: Gen Z and physical retail, self-scan’s grave fate, and material reinventions

In this week’s Editor’s Desk, editor Kayla Dowling discusses three developments disrupting the status quo: though it may seem contradictory to the collective adoption of life online, Gen Z may be bricks-and-mortar’s biggest generatio
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