The Retail Apocalypse

[ysabetwordsmith]

Stores are closing as more shopping moves online, and people don't want to lose all of them. 

Shoppers won't get a choice, though.  Stores aren't there to make you happy.  Their purpose is to make money.  If they don't, they'll close, no matter how many people want or need them.  You can just do without being able to try on clothes before you buy them or having a hardware clerk who actually knows what the products do.  The only way stores will survive is if people shop in them, and that's happening less and less.  Worse, it's the specialty stores that get hit the hardest -- and those are the products that benefit most from personal interaction.  Some generic stores may survive, but they're not great.  Imagine a world with nothing left but WalMart and a few shoe stores.  >_<

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Re: Thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

We had the "supplier no longer supplies" problem with catfood, of all things, and _no-one_ is selling that flavor* anymore. (We get the last laugh, because that was the only flavor we bought from that company - and we were willing to go to a lot of trouble to get it too.)

*For the curious, it is brushtail meat, which is a cute but invasive species of possum in New Zeland.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Eat 'em to Beat 'em! :D

This is my response to edible invasives of all kinds. People may piss and moan about how much trouble they cause, but seriously, never doubt humanity's ability to kill things. We wiped out the passenger pigeons and they used to blot out the sun. People can wipe out anything if they're motivated enough. Create a compelling market for it and human nature will do the rest.

Might as well make a virtue out of vice.