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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 4750463" data-attributes="member: 10177">Book stores, and many other types of stores, and not only music and DVD stores, are going the way of the Dodo bird. The reality of the "store" in general, is that they are being phased out. Eventually there will be far fewer, but bigger and more centralized stores of every kind, except probably grocery stores, but even that is definitely open to change.Why? Because every year more and more people are becoming comfortable with buying on line, and falling in love with it being delivered to their very door step within days. Even grocery stores (Safeway in my area) allow me to order my groceries on line and they will deliver them to my door, for an additional fee, which really isn't all that unreasonable, depending on how valuable your time is.Sears, Costco, and Sams Club/Wal Mart allow me to order on line, they get my order together, and then I walk into the store and go to the customer service area and pick up my order. Saving me all the time I would have spent wandering around their store finding and collecting all of those products myself.So as more and more of the general consumer becomes comfortable with on line buying, and learn to appreciate the added convenience, as well as the time it saves you, more and more brick and mortar stores are going to lose customers and shut down. Whether they sell books, music/DVD's, clothes, tools, etc...  To sum it up, EVERYTHING already can be bought on line, even new cars. Heck, for $30 my bank will go find me a new car at the best price they can find, finance me, and close the transaction for me.The day is already here where you don't have to leave your home at all, even in a growing number of cases people are able to work at home. So as more and more people become aware of this fact, and warm to the times saved and convenience of it, brick and mortar stores across the entire spectrum are going to disappear.Remember the landscape you see today of all those stores you visit, because in 10 to 20 years 80% of them are going to be gone.</blockquote>

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