The story in the U.S. and other developed nations is the retail coffee explosion, which shows little sign of abating.
Before this retail pot explosion, cannabis dispensaries were forced to operate somewhat clandestinely.
"What you're seeing is a real explosion in the retail sector, like what we have in the U.S". Carrefour, Wal-Mart and the Lotus chain of supermarkets, the last owned by a Thai conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Foods, are expanding rapidly in urban China.
But it also triggered an explosion in retail lending.
While Britain's financial regulators watched the explosion of retail lending from the sidelines, their counterparts in Germany and France were more restrictive.
"In the last 10 years there has been an absolute explosion of retail shopping opportunities," says Pam Danziger, founder of Stevens, Pa.-based United Marketing, which provides market research for luxury goods companies, referring to the aforementioned lifestyle centers.
But with the explosion of online retail, a shopper could be based in the U.S. and making purchases in the UK, or Spain, or China or India.
Today's ruling overturns a decision from the Court in 1992 that paved the way for the explosion of online retail in the United States.
The only explosion now is of retail chains, from DKNY and Armani Collezioni to Marks & Spencer's new, ocean-liner-sized attempt to restore the ailing fortunes of one of Britain's biggest clothing chains.
