LogFAQs > #888206064

Brick and mortar stores need to change drastically. ITs not realistic to compete with online, if only because of the logistic issues and theft/losses (those exist in warehouses of online-only stores too, but not nearly as much).

Specialty local stores for things you really want to see in person (think Ikea or the local mom & pop craft store) are probably going to stay around if they play their cards right.

Crap like Sears and Best Buy are essentially doomed. As they try to compete with online in price, they have less and less staff and the stores go to ruin. No one wants to shop in a store thats in ruin (okay, there's Walmart but they're a special case).

Non-specialty stores have to become showrooms and an easy place to impulse buy popular items. Eg: if I walk in a BestBuy, what I should see is a bunch of display models of the latest trends in TVs, computers or games, being able to buy a few flagship products right there and then but being redirect to Amazon or whatever to buy the rest. They'd be paid by the manifacturers as a type of marketing, not by the shoppers (aside for a margin on those specific new/popular things they DO carry, which should be a very limited selection).

Think the pop up stores Microsoft had for a while, or appliance show rooms like Yales' appliance...but for everything that isn't a restaurant or a specialty mom&pop shop.