pleeker - 12:34 am on Jan 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

I walked thru the local mall yeserday for the first time in a couple months and noticed about three vacancies. Not unusual, but one of them was the only music store in the whole mall. At first I was surprised -- music stores are still magnets for teens to hang out with friends. But then it occurred to me that it's been YEARS since I've bought a CD in a store, and those teenagers probably weren't spending much money, either.

If there's a B&M industry that's about to get swallowed up by the web, it's retail music stores.

(FWIW, right across the concourse was a movie retailer. There were zero shoppers inside. Wonder if the age of the video iPod will make those stores obsolete in a few years, too?)