We have bought stuff on line and absolutely nothing was worth it. I miss the take it back to the store days. Plus what you get is PURE CRAP! And your screwed because they don’t pay for return shipping. Not worth all the hassle.
There’s no doubt brick and mortar retail is taking a hit from on-line retail. For example, I needed some additional RAM in my desktops, and ordered the exact compatible memory from an online retailer in like five minutes...but then had to wait four days for it to show up. And then I wondered why I didn’t go down to Fry’s to buy some and I’d have it right now...
...except I didn’t know that the kid in the ill-fitting white shirt at Fry’s would show me the exactly compatible memory sets I needed.
I agree that most clothes seem to be the thing you would want to see in person and maybe try on. But so many other things are fungible; underwear, sox, sheets, towels; why not just order them and have them delivered?
Yes, Amazon is putting a lot of these stores out of business. Given Jeff Bezos’ political stance, maybe the best thing a Trump administration could do in a second term would be to have the DOJ institute an anti-trust action against Amazon and break it up.