As E-Commerce Grows, So Do Its Challenges

The E-commerce panel from RealShare Industrial.

DALLAS—In today’s ever-changing technological world, transactions executed on a laptop, tablet or smartphone has become commonplace. Taking it to the next level, certain appliances are now capable of signaling that the milk is low in the refrigerator or the ink is empty in the printer, order it and have it shipped that same day without any human intervention.

Commercial transactions conducted electronically—known universally as e-commerce—have been a boom for retailers but has left the industrial commercial real estate industry scrambling to catch up. And if keeping up with US demand is not difficult enough, the handling of imports is even more challenging.