Swiss ecommerce faces shortage warehouse locations
Online retailers in Switzerland are facing a shortage of suitable logistics locations within the country. They are outsourcing warehousing or seeking solutions across the border, according to the Swiss Handelszeitung.
Over the past decades, ecommerce in Switzerland has experienced significant growth in both the private and business sectors. This has fueled the demand for logistics real estate. However, the supply in the country is lagging, as noted by real estate consultant Peter Acél from Zurich.
“There are not enough quality logistics properties”, he said in an interview with Handelszeitung.
The lack of existing logistics real estate has led online sellers to outsource warehousing to external specialists who have the resources and focus to construct their own advanced facilities. As a result, centralization is occurring, a trend further intensified when companies need to be more cost-conscious, as is the case currently.
Meanwhile, customers are demanding increasingly faster deliveries, which would be better facilitated by decentralized inventories, requiring more warehouses. From there, companies can effectively meet the needs of modern customers, such as same-day delivery.
According to real estate consultant Acél, Swiss companies are currently not fully or adequately passing on the actual logistics costs to customers. The scarcity of suitable local warehouse space means that they will rely on major external service providers even more heavily. Another alternative is to store goods in foreign warehouses where wages and transportation costs are lower. “The first retailers are therefore building logistics areas in neighboring countries”, as reported by Handelszeitung.
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