Online shopping claims more victims. It’s far cheaper and easier to sit at home and open the mail than it is to drive to some distant location, walk for hours, and battle crowds. Their business model simply doesn’t have the market share it once had. If they didn’t see it coming, and adjust accordingly, then they deserve to lose even more market share. We express our preferences with our dollars. Period.
Thing i hate about online shopping...you dont see or feel the product. As a simple example...i ordered some cargo pants....but the product with exact same name had changed...the fabric was much thinner in heft...there were less stitches
You dont know the fit and finish...and when you order the product you dont know if that particular manufacturing run was a good one. If product is not good....it is a hassle to return...
We moved from Seattle (My home of 46 years) to rural south-central Kentucky. One of the things that makes it an easy move is Amazon Prime. There is even a fulfilment center near our town. So it’s both making life almost as convenient, shopping wise, as living in a city, it is killing local business.
But I figured cities were safe. Then I found out my daughters in Seattle use it to get stuff in less than an hour, and it is huge for them because it keeps them out of the nightmarish traffic situation there.
The brick and mortar, as a staple for goods, is going the way of the buggy whip. Times change. It’s inevitable. And yes, they still make buggy whips. Just not as many per capita...