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<blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4340760" data-attributes="member: 52839">What I said is a very real scenario that economists have been very concerned with since the advent of online sales, and even more so now as the internet revolution is in full swing and the public is becoming increasingly more internet savvy and young computer users turn into adult computer users. The change is happening very fast and small businesses are collapsing at ever increasing and alarming rates.When I said &quot;burger joints&quot;, what I meant is the service industry. And people that have posted saying that FLGS need to become more service oriented if they want to survive is right on the money. With the advent of the internet, the service industry and malls are all that's going to be left on the street in 20 years.No jobs comes from the fact that you don't need a whole heck of a lot of people to run a wearhouse or computer orders. With the collapse of small businesses (the major source of employment in any country), you get rid of employment opportunities and unemployment numbers skyrocket. The economy is fragile, and small businesses have already taken hit after hit since Bush took office. The question is when does the small business industry fall through. Since the internet has been the biggest economic competitor to small businesses, the attitude to prices is exactly what is threatening to collapse the small business industry.We could turn this thread into an economic debate, but this subject severely diverts from both the subject of this thread and the purpose of this site, so let's just ignore the particulars of economics and just focus on the effect on FLGS. It's my fault for diverting this to the larger subject of economics, but I'd like to abandon that subject to get back to the main subject of this thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corjay, post: 4340760, member: 52839"] What I said is a very real scenario that economists have been very concerned with since the advent of online sales, and even more so now as the internet revolution is in full swing and the public is becoming increasingly more internet savvy and young computer users turn into adult computer users. The change is happening very fast and small businesses are collapsing at ever increasing and alarming rates. When I said "burger joints", what I meant is the service industry. And people that have posted saying that FLGS need to become more service oriented if they want to survive is right on the money. With the advent of the internet, the service industry and malls are all that's going to be left on the street in 20 years. No jobs comes from the fact that you don't need a whole heck of a lot of people to run a wearhouse or computer orders. With the collapse of small businesses (the major source of employment in any country), you get rid of employment opportunities and unemployment numbers skyrocket. The economy is fragile, and small businesses have already taken hit after hit since Bush took office. The question is when does the small business industry fall through. Since the internet has been the biggest economic competitor to small businesses, the attitude to prices is exactly what is threatening to collapse the small business industry. We could turn this thread into an economic debate, but this subject severely diverts from both the subject of this thread and the purpose of this site, so let's just ignore the particulars of economics and just focus on the effect on FLGS. It's my fault for diverting this to the larger subject of economics, but I'd like to abandon that subject to get back to the main subject of this thread. [/QUOTE]

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