Jules Richardson wrote:
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:01:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I can foresee shops becomein simply non stock holding showcases, with
the 'sales assistant' showing you, how to eneter the ionline order, or
doing it for you.

I don't mind that so much for big stuff where I expect a bit of a wait
anyway. It'd be a pain for smaller convenience items. Worse still if
shops vanish altogether, of course.

My wife doesn't clothes shop in shops anymore. She orders from one or
two online shops who are happy to accept returns of stuff even on the
grounds that she simply doesn't like it.

Fair enough. But I'd get frustrated if I waited for something to arrive
in the mail and then found out that what I didn't like about it was
something that I would have immediately known by looking at the physical
item (or being able to try it on) - that's a waste of both my time and
theirs.


well indeed, but is loads better than travelling 10 miles into a town,
and these days it is NOT cambridge, because it costs a fortune to park
there or hours of fiddling with park and rides, and 6-7 hours of trying
every shop, to find that they contain nothing worth buying.

And its a damned sight GREENER too.


cheers

Jules