Some of the stores are already working on that problem. When you go into a Sam's club, your cell signal becomes almost dead. The also cover up the upc code with their own code, which the readers on the smartphones won't recognize. Now, that does leave me the chance to manually type in the product, but they are working on making it more difficult.
Making it more difficult for buyers to shop won’t solve the problem. It will simply drive buyers elsewhere.
Eventually, the inability to cut costs in order to compete with the internet is going to cause businesses to start looking at government for solutions.
That’s what the demand for internet sales tax is about. But that still won’t solve all their problems, especially if consumers band together to stop congress from implementing.
Eventually corporation are going to have start managing for product quality and customer service and stop managing for increased stock value.