re: What will the retail landscape look like once millennials are the primary consumer base?

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I can completely see this. Order your groceries ahead of time on your phone, show up at the store, they're bagged and ready to go.

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Walmart just opened up a pick up location like this not far from me. I hate shopping at a fcking Walmart, but I can see us using this a bunch.
Order your shite and drive up and they bring it out to your car.

My mom uses my Amazon prime account more than I do.

But those damn millennials!!

I’m thinking more of the open air concept. No doubt online retail will be huge, but people still want to go to a store to look at items. Malls are gonna die same as drive in movies. But people will want to go to places like Academy to look at shite even if they end up buying it online. But they’ll want to go to a place that is nicer than the malls we have today.

Only thing that Will frick it up is the criminal element. Bunch of shitheads hanging out at any retail establishment will kill it.

They want places with people dressed like fairy’s throwing pixy dust around, safe space rooms, and comfort animals around to pet mixed with a Starbucks.

Sad part nothing will get done as they hashtag everything and expect someone else to do it.

I think they will have small apartments in a mixed use area. You can rebuild a mall to have a living spaces, warehouses, and pickup centers. The shops will be a mix of pickup centers/ warehouses with small retail area or if it is a grocery store or restaurant smaller eating space with large pickup counters. You might even see employers like IBM buy old malls and turn them into living spaces, work spaces, and retail/warehouse/pickup centers. These kids will never go outside and see what the real world is like.

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People won't keep putting up with terrible customer service and a mediocre product.

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idk I know a lot of people my age that love Taco Bell and Popeyes

Well that's a biased and ignorant thought process if I've ever seen one...
Wealthy Gen X and Baby Boomers are oversaturating the retail markets with competition, while also pushing internet purchasing through those same companies due to the large increase in margin and cost savings. Online purchasing & shipping via warehouse also allows dollars to flow directly to the company, vs the store, which allows them to pay less in labor and avoiding bonus payouts due to loss of STORE sales.
It's a nice little racket...
If the business goes under, they own 35 other companies to fall back on.
But it's all the millenials fault...

& this is coming from a Gen Xer

Designated safe spaces everywhere

You’ll have a lot less bitchy customers, that’s for sure.

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while also pushing internet purchasing through those same companies due to the large increase in margin and cost savings. Online purchasing & shipping via warehouse also allows dollars to flow directly to the company, vs the store, which allows them to pay less in labor and avoiding bonus payouts due to loss of STORE sales.

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Nail on head. Any brick and mortar not shifting to online sales is retarded.

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What brick and mortar institutions will still be around?

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not many considering nobody wants to leave the house anymore,and if they do...it's to be driven around by a fricking self driving car.