By 2030, in-store shopping will consist of displays only in larger with highly secured warehousing facilities. You’ll basically pick from the display-pay-and THEN you’ll get your purchase. Merchandise will no longer be accessible to the consumer prior to purchase i.e. internet purchases.
Insurance companies will soon start requiring more security procedures in order to be insured.........
coming to a CVS near you!
Manufacturers will often compensate stores for theft in order to have their goods readily available for purchase.
They may stop doing this if the nation goes the way of San Francisco.
Best Products used to work on such a model.
They are no longer around.
“By 2030, in-store shopping will consist of displays only in larger with highly secured warehousing facilities”
This was the business model of the catalog showrooms like Best Products, Service Merchandise, Arden and Brendles. Popular in the 1980’s, most declared bankruptcy by the end of the 1990’s. Their limited assortments of housewares, jewelry, sporting goods, and electronics could not compete with the huge assortments of the emerging “category killer” specialty chains such as Best Buy, Bed Bath and Beyond, Sports Authority, and Zales.
Eventually citizens, retailers, and insurance companies are going to demand protection from rampant crime. Either government will crack down on crime or vigilante justice will become common.