Brick and mortar stores are dying because its more convenient to shop online and your purchases come to you.
Its just a very relaxing and stress-free way to shop.
That’s the future of retail business.
I can’t buy clothes on line. As for cheaper, depends on shipping rates. And some things, I’ll drive to purchase, because delivery in one piece is problematic. I like choices, and bricks and mortar can still be a viable choice if intelligently run.
Also, the selection on line is better. I wear big and tall clothes, and my local shop may have one pair of jeans in my size. I just buy it online.
Also, did you see what was happening in those malls and department stores after Christmas? Some of the nicest malls and department stores when I was growing up are now shutdown due to this behavior. They completed a large outlet mall with a movie complex several years ago and I can tell you within five years all you see on weekend nights is police in the parking lot.
There’s also the almost unlimited inventory.
Used to be you would go to the store and have to choose from what they had on hand.
Now you can buy clothes you actually like.
I hope not. I like being able to pick up and handle an item--especially when shopping for clothes, since you can't try on an article of clothing through the screen. And I don't like to have to wait for something to be shipped to me and risk having it being stolen by porch pirates if it arrives at my doorstep when I'm not at home.
I go to my local mall so little, I don’t even know if we have a Macy’s. But it doesn’t matter, as I buy from them online.
Our mall has all the regular stores, but we are in a small-ish college town and the selection isn’t very good. I’m much better off, and can always find what I want, by shopping online, whether it is amazon, Macy’s, Walmart, etc. And that’s just the big stores, I also shop from online catalogs from smaller shops for everything from clothes to shoes to home decorating items. Why would I leave the house?
Yes, shopping online is convenient. Sometimes what you order isn’t as nice as the picture, however. And in this little valley where I live there has been an uptick in Fed Ex and USP packages being swiped, also the community mailboxes being pried open.