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NewYorkshire
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I think that online retailing will finally kill off shops within the next 5 years. As an example, I recently bought some AdBlue for my car - at Halfords £15 for 4 litres and on Amazon £15 for 10 litres delivered to my door (well behind my wheelie bin). The high street just can't compete with that. I previously thought no way could this happen for clothes or shoes - but many now do free delivery and returns online, so even this side is going that way.

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Online retail is sure changing things but materially does not seem to be impacting on the physicality of the shopping experience. Indeed, I think there must be 10 x more shops in the UK than ever there was.

I think you might be guilty of male heterosexual bias. Lol

On a serious note we have seen small towns like Rotherham decimated but not be online sales. Outside of this big cities thrive and retail parks are still opening around the country. It's harder than ever to park to shop despite huge multistorey car parks .



-- Edited by ian on Saturday 9th of July 2016 10:19:52 AM

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90% of the women I know over 40 go shopping for the experience. I will even go so far as to say they buy stuff they know they will wear only once. The online experience doesn't allow a touchy feely approach and my wife has to feel the quality of the product before buying.

I went to Mataram yesterday and took 5 pairs of dress shorts into the changing room. Only one fitted and looked okay. Maybe I should have taken my nappie off but you get what I mean.

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Heman wrote:

90% of the women I know over 40 go shopping for the experience. I will even go so far as to say they buy stuff they know they will wear only once. The online experience doesn't allow a touchy feely approach and my wife has to feel the quality of the product before buying.

I went to Mataram yesterday and took 5 pairs of dress shorts into the changing room. Only one fitted and looked okay. Maybe I should have taken my nappie off but you get what I mean.

 How did you get passed her quality control  



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Supermarkets would love to replicate the Amazon model where they just become giant distribution warehouses and they can close all there expensive stores. So much so that is actually costing them more to deliver to your door than you pay in delivery charges. Will we ever be happy to but our groceries online rather than popping down to the local Asda?

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S8Miller wrote:

Supermarkets would love to replicate the Amazon model where they just become giant distribution warehouses and they can close all there expensive stores. So much so that is actually costing them more to deliver to your door than you pay in delivery charges. Will we ever be happy to but our groceries online rather than popping down to the local Asda?

As a family we havent been to a supermarket for well over 2 years...to do a grocery shop.

We simply reorder with the click of a button and one just adds any items one fancies as extra...convenient and keeps the budget spot on

It just is so much less stressful considering we both work full time and 2 under 8s and cats and stick insects to look after



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I think its age old that people will want to touch, feel & press buttons of things they want to buy. As Heman says, a lot of the ladies use it as a social experience (unlike us blokes where its in and out as quick as possible - yes I am on about shopping!). If anything it will be online stuff that changes, people will eventually demand that goods are bought online and received same day, I think we're half way to that with the click & collect thing. I read somewhere Amazon were developing an army of automated drones to make next generation direct deliveries and I think they're right (if its true). The next distribution shift has to be off the land and in the immediate sky above us, the space is there, no congestion and we have the tech already

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On a related subject, I can seriously envisage cash becoming obsolete in the next 25 years, half of all transactions now are electronic/card & It's only gonna go one way.

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id be surprised if its not more than 50%...there are huge parts of the world still outside the advanced zones so I dont think we are going cashless that quick but im sure it will happen in shape or form to the point it become virtually implausible to think of cash as a first option.

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I'd agree on the supermarket - when I was in Rotherham all week we just used Tesco and used the same list every week. In London there's a corner shop on every corner and a couple in the middle with a Tesco local either side. All open 25 hours a day!

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