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Originally Posted by blankall
Retail is dead.
I understand the appeal of buying something in store and getting an expert's opinion. The problem is very few retail locations contain experts of any kind. Even small mom and pop stores usually just hire kids who don't give a crap or immigrants. Noone wants to take the time to man their own stores, when they can hire someone making minimum wage to do it.
On top of that you always have to hurdle the trap of commission based sales people selling you the wrong thing. I'd rather take my chances with online purchases.
We need to move away from the model of:
Producer --> wholesaler --> retailer --> customer
Instead it should be:
Producer --> customer
Warehouses where people have the ability to actually put their hands on goods could supplement the pruducer to customer model.
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Who knew that Consumers Distributing was so far ahead of its time.