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<blockquote data-quote="PaulofCthulhu" data-source="post: 5348416">Sadly I think we may see more of this in the future as circumstances dictate.A Games Shop I know in Manchetser used to have free &quot;play&quot; tables, but then moved to a fee-per-player-per-session.Further down that road, a local outdoors clothing shop now charges £15 (refunded on purchase) to just try on clothing, due to issues with people using it as a &quot;tryout&quot; shop then heading out and buying it cheaper off the internet. Sounds desperate, but that seems to be the way it is for them.As for using shops as &quot;tryout&quot; centres, a relative does just that with books. One iPhone, one barcode scanning app. one Waterstones book store and one active and well used Amazon account.Such changes in commerce were predicted 15 years ago, but now with broadband, highly portable computing devices and people growing up since first school with the Net its looking like it's actually starting to happen in places.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaulofCthulhu, post: 5348416"] Sadly I think we may see more of this in the future as circumstances dictate. A Games Shop I know in Manchetser used to have free "play" tables, but then moved to a fee-per-player-per-session. Further down that road, a local outdoors clothing shop now charges £15 (refunded on purchase) to just try on clothing, due to issues with people using it as a "tryout" shop then heading out and buying it cheaper off the internet. Sounds desperate, but that seems to be the way it is for them. As for using shops as "tryout" centres, a relative does just that with books. One iPhone, one barcode scanning app. one Waterstones book store and one active and well used Amazon account. Such changes in commerce were predicted 15 years ago, but now with broadband, highly portable computing devices and people growing up since first school with the Net its looking like it's actually starting to happen in places. [/QUOTE]

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