Where do you guys see commerce going????

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I just walked past a Hoffman Koos today around 11AM and thought, "why are they open now, who is furniture shopping on a Tuesday morning"

But then I thought about how me and wifey ordered our current couch on Amazon, and have got a good 4 years out of it. I'm pretty sure she ordered it at work. It was a gamble but now I have no qualms ordering furniture online.

You factor in the passings or coming deaths of specialty big box stores like Sears and Circuit City, to me it becomes kind of a question as to where retail is headed. And with a store like Amazon being so much more efficient/profitable than something like Circuit City, what happens to that line of employment?

 

[Shogun]

Well, these companies just need to change it up. Lots of jobs will be lost if the traditional stores are closed, but other employment opportunities will open up. Depends if the American worker, and business owner can be flexible.

Lower classes will take a hit though,with the loss of traditional retails jobs.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I think this shift will be a death blow to retail in places like NYC, but on the flip side jobs will def open up on the distribution side in cheaper areas where companies place their hubs.

 

[88m3]

I think this shift will be a death blow to retail in places like NYC, but on the flip side jobs will def open up on the distribution side in cheaper areas where companies place their hubs.

I think a lot of people enjoy random shopping and the novelty of stopping in "showrooms".


Internet shopping has been here since the late 90's or before things haven't shifted as dramatically as you're implying.


This is more specialized but high end car dealers are going more and more high tech and into hospitality.

I was at a dealership in Manhattan a month back and I was given a nyt and a woman made me a coffee. I was just there for parts...

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Cars is one of those things that will always be live. I can't imagine buying a car w/o driving it, let alone seeing it in person. But Best Buy would go out of business tomorrow if it gave anyone who came in a coffee + NYT.

In LI at least, there is definitely something killing brick and mortar retail. Strip malls are closing down across the country. Bay Harbor Mall (a whole mall lmao) is on the brink of closing. Only things keeping it open are a Marshalls and a Burlington Coat Factory. Clothes are prob another place where people buy in person and most likely always will.