Overblown rhetoric. Weak retailers will and should fail as Americans shift their purchasing online. Again, my wife is my guide on this. She has always looked at Coldwater Creek, Land End and Eddie Bower catalogs, but things she ordered from CC always didn't seem to fit, seemed cheap or didn't look right. So she stopped ordering from them year ago. They just suck. Why is it a "retail apocalypse" when lousy or inefficient retailers die?
Yeah, let's reduce everything to buying online. That's the ticket! Who wants to bother trying on clothes? Trying out a guitar to see how it sounds and plays. Test driving a car. Yeah, let's just park our fat butts in front of a computer so we can point and click items from those 'efficient' retailers. Heck, why don't we just get rid of retail altogether and buy online direct at wholesale from the Chinese manufactures and eliminate those American retail middle men. Talk about efficient.