Retail isn't dying.
Retail is being re-engineered.
The Logistics Townhouse: experience and availability in a single building.
Experience and availability — never at the same time.
A typical store carries 2,000 to 3,000 SKUs. Online assortments are 20,000+, instantly available. Physical retail constantly trades floor space against storage — and ends up delivering neither experience nor availability at full strength.
The outcome is familiar: interchangeable stores, falling conversion, declining footfall, hollowed-out city centres.
This isn't a retail problem.
It's a logistics problem.
City-centre floor space is too expensive to use as storage, and replenishment from external warehouses is too slow. So assortments stay artificially small — and so does the shopping experience.
Logistics Townhouse — experience and availability in one building.
- UPPER FLOORSShuttle warehouse
Fully automated fulfilment stock with roughly 75,000 SKUs.
- LINKPouch sorter
Delivers any ordered item to the point of sale in under five minutes.
- GROUND FLOORRetail & experience
Curated, spacious selling floor — free from storage trade-offs.
The warehouse no longer sits behind the store — it sits above it. The twist: retailers share the infrastructure and slash their fixed costs.
Real online parity in the high street.
- 5–10×
- Assortment per store
- <5 min
- Replenishment to POS
- 80%+
- Online parity
For retailers
- No more out-of-stock moments
- Less stock on the floor
- More room for staging, service and experience
For the city centre
- A lighthouse with pulling power
- Footfall returns
- Fewer delivery trucks downtown
Business case [to be validated]
The economic effect plays out across several levers. The numbers below are hypotheses — we validate them with pilot partners.
- Conversion rate
- +30–50%
Instant availability across variants reduces drop-off.
- Avg. basket size
- +20–35%
Deeper assortment enables cross-selling.
- Revenue per m² of selling floor
- 2–3×
Higher efficiency of floor usage vs. a classic store.
- CAPEX payback
- 4–6 years
Depends on rent model and location.
Revenue per square metre of selling floor is the decisive lever. Traditional retail logic forces a trade-off between storage and sales floor — the Logistics Townhouse decouples them. More revenue on the same or smaller footprint.
Proven technology — a new combination.
Each component has existed for years. What is new is the combination and the vertical building typology. The Logistics Townhouse is neither a dark store like Ocado Zoom nor a flagship like Apple — it is both in one system.
- Shuttle warehouse / AutoStore
- Vertically dense storage with fast pick speeds.
- Pouch sorter
- Continuous material flow between warehouse and store.
- Micro-fulfilment
- Real-time orchestration of every movement.
A consortium of expertise.
Building development, construction, systems integration and finance — led by Logivalue GmbH, specialists in logistics infrastructure.
The first Logistics Townhouse starts now.
- Retail partners
- You have a high-street presence and want online parity in-store. Let’s talk.
- Real-estate developers
- You have suitable urban sites. We bring the infrastructure.
- Investors
- You're looking for infrastructure-grade innovation in retail. The pilot phase starts now.