Certain kinds of retail will be fine. Specialty (aimed at teenagers who can't stand having 20 bucks in their pocket) clothing lines at the mall. Some Mom and Pop shops if they're in the right place. Regardless, it doesn't pay to be an electonics retailer right now. Amazon (anything under the sun) and Walmart (sometimes questionable quality but take it home now) take the bulk of those. If you can make yourself stand out with service you'll be ok. Not many stores care to even try though. I think Fry's does well because you can't get capacitors and such from Radio Shack anymore. <br>
<br>--Brian<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
retail is dying a slow death. With the advent of Amazon same day<br>
delivery, more big-box retail will be pick up places for online<br>
orders. Walmart.com has stuff at better discounts than same item in<br>
store. But you can get it delivered to the store for free. It's not<br>
assembled from store inventory and put aside for you like Microcenter<br>
in-store pickup.<br>
<br>
Pity the kids in school who think they can work at the mall and earn<br>
enough to move out of parents house.<br>
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> On 08/15/2012 10:11 AM, david w. millians wrote:<br>
>> On 8/14/2012 4:19 PM, Michael Campbell wrote:<br>
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Lightner, Jeff <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Why is it every time you go to a store these days they tell you “we can<br>
>>>> order that for you” rather than keeping things in stock?<br>
>>> Because inventory is a liability.<br>
>> Apparently, they haven't realized the loss of customers is also a liability.<br>
> +1 - loss of customers liability >> inventory liability<br>
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