How Your Holiday Gifts Got to the Store - Where We Buy #131

<p>What happened behind the scenes this holiday shopping season? Industrial researchers George Cutro and Chad Buch talk about how consumer goods travel via ship, rail and truck on their way to retail stores and consumers' homes; the types of industrial buildings products are stored in; and how companies get the workers they need to make it all happen. James Cook recaps how stores performed this holiday season and discusses the shifting balance between online and bricks-and-mortar retail. </p> <p>James Cook is the director of retail research in the Americas for JLL. </p> <p>Subscribe: <a href= "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/where-we-buy/id1186408446?mt=2&ls=1"> Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/show/5foHMsABY7H5l88nIwBKuZ?si=GxFexBGJQXG4HAgyhBw27g"> Spotify</a> | <a href= "http://subscribeonandroid.com/wherewebuy.libsyn.com/rss">Android </a><br /> Listen: <a href= "http://wherewebuy.show/">WhereWeBuy.show</a> <br /> Alexa: Say "Enable the <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BSXLMM3/">Where We Buy skill</a>"</p> <p>Tweet: <a href= "https://twitter.com/JamesDCook">@JamesDCook</a><br /> Email: <a href= "mailto:jamesd.cook@am.jll.com">jamesd.cook@am.jll.com </a><br /> Instagram: <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/jamcoo/">@jamcoo</a></p> <p>Leave a message on the Where We Buy hotline. We may use it on an upcoming show. Call (602) 633-4061 </p> <p>Read more retail research here:  <a href= "http://www.us.jll.com/retail">http://www.us.jll.com/retail</a></p> <p>Theme music is <a href= "http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Good_Lawdz/A_Lil_Sumthin_Sumthin/The_Good_Lawdz_-_A_Lil_Sumthin_Sumthin_-_03_Run_In_The_Night"> Run in the Night</a> by The Good Lawdz, under <a href= "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons license</a>.</p>