Looking back at headlines from 2019, 2020, 2021, there are plenty of articles proclaiming the downfall of in-store retail. Doomed to disappear, supposedly, were a mass of brick-and-mortar locations. Ecommerce’s rocketing toward making up 17 percent of all retail sales during the pandemic was a signal to some that the retail apocalypse was here. Three years later, quite a different picture is coming into focus.