The online shopping craze is destroying shop fronts, this Christmas stores have been closing all over the place. Many retailers are finding their stores becoming more like show rooms with people testing and using devices, to only do the actual purchase online at a fraction of the cost.
We all have to do what we can to save, but once that there are no more stores there will be less reasons to leave the house, this could be a good thing? Maybe less pollution?
If you go to Fry’s electronics or Radio Shack you will notice that the sales people have been trained to be more intrusive and it is coming across as more desperate than ever to get your business.
I know many people are upset by this as they have family and friends that are finding themselves out of work. The majority of people at these large retailers are students trying to get through college and this is their way of paying their way through. So this is also going to affect the education industry as people are not going to be able to afford to go to college. This only leaves jobs like Coffee shops and restaurants for places to work while in college, which pay minimum wage plus small tips.
Obviously this move to online shopping is only going to grow until there are no more stores with actual display models and stock, if it continues at the rate of decline that is being in the last few years.
Best buy is a great of example of a store that is heading for extinction because they don’t match Internet prices to keep customers from buying elsewhere (Some stores might match depends on the manager on duty) Fry’s Electronic have been matching internet prices for a few years now and this has kept them afloat but I think the whole matching of prices is coming to a head as price matching doesn’t pay sales people and the power bill among 100’s of other factors that a business must pay to have a store front.