Rise of the consumerless store

Daily Telegraph reports that 'Supermarket giant Tesco is opening a network of 'dark stores' which will never be visited by shoppers.

"The supermarkets, which are laid out in the same manner as normal stores, will be used exclusively by staff doing virtual shopping for online customers. Instead of the public browsing up and down the aisles, teams of Tesco workers will push their own trolleys around as they complete more than 1,000 shopping lists every day." http://bit.ly/4qsCQl

Amazon has absolutely no plans whatsoever to do something similar despite rumours (apparently) http://bit.ly/8y7csR

Online shopping is finally reaching the levels imagined in the dot.com boom - how is the physical space going to adapt?