Clicks 'n Mortar V Bricks 'n Mortar

Has the mindset changed yet?

[peewhy]

From a UK perspective. The big food stores are all online, vans in their shining livery zoom around delivering people's grocery orders.

For disabled and infirm, it is probably life-changing, for the very lazy it is probably taken for granted and for the very busy - it is worth every penny.

There is very little that we cannot buy online, we can even pay for our funeral!

I think both parties, the buyers and the sellers dip their toes in the shallow end and take it up from there.

How far away are we from anonymous warehouses in almost inaccessable areas, designed just for storing online stock.
We know Amazon are old hat at it, but it won't just stop at books.

Will high street shops become viewing areas for touchy feely things with online booths to buy from, Argos is really a modem away!

Will car showrooms become test drive only depots?

Will stores have 'buy on line' monitors next to ATM's operating on a 24 hour basis?

Our children will probably know nothing else.

[Essex_boy]

Im in the UK, Clacton in Essex, and I doubt thats going to be the future.

I shop on line when im short of time (Supermarkets) or Im looking for a treat for my self or a present (that rainforest store).

Shopping is something I hate, buyin clothing is even worse but I can SEE and TOUCH the products and walk away with them.

If theres a queue and I cant wait but I can wait for the products then yes an online screen in the shop would help.
The future is still bricks and morter.

[peewhy]

I think we'll always have bricks 'n mortar ... but not the way we know it now.

Touch and feel will always be here too - but let's take home electrics, you know the make, model and serial number... compare prices, buy online.

I think that's the future.