The easy answer is “YES,” shopping is changing forever.
The reason is simple, everything changes forever and always has. Sears Robuck & Co. got their start in much the same way that Amazon did. Sears did it by satisfying rural America’s hunger for mass-manufactured goods through the delivery of catalogs thru the US mail system and products delivered via the rail system. Amazon did it with the Internet, foreign supply chains and a trucking system over our Interstate hwy system.
Shopping malls flourished because retailers could display their goods more effectively in large glass windows of storefronts in a climate-controlled mall with attractive amenities that shoppers found convenient and pleasant.
But the need for lower prices, higher profits, more effective online marketing and even more shopper convenience, pushed the consumer-product manufacturing and Marketing paradigm to where it is today.
But it won’t stay there, because the phenomena of change is one thing that will not change.
This is not a new thing, the discovery of it happened over 2,500 years ago, blame it on this guy:
