All that is solid melts into air

BRITAIN, Napoleon once supposedly scoffed, was “a nation of shopkeepers”. Nowadays it is a nation of online shoppers.

  The growth in e-commerce has contributed to a rise in the number of warehouses, which now cover 40m square metres (424m square feet) of the country.
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Warehouse rents have risen by 17% over the past six years in London, and by 11% in the south-east more generally, squeezing the margins of e-retailers.
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21710271-britons-do-more-their-shopping-online-almost-anyone-else-move-cyberspace