zuzu3 interesting
This small chain is thinking ahead of the biggies. Typing is too slow for many it will need speech recognition
Have you tried it? Satisfied?
The single biggest reason I shop at my Kroger as opposed to a Wal Mart and Publix both about a block away is that I know where most items are located.
. There are enough non price sensitive customers to keep the Publix going, people who like the wide isles and ambience.IOW there is a wide variance in customers, enough to support differing types and formats of retail.
B&M will continue to exist alongside internet. But with declining sales for years to come. A bet on Amazon vs B&M has paid off nicely in the past and I expect it to do so for years to come.
No matter how you figure it, having to get in your car ,fight traffic, find a parking spot, walk to store ,walk inside store, find item ,walk to cashier line, wait to be checked out, walk back to car, fight traffic to get back home are built in disadvantages that mostly won’t be going away… Internet ordering also has built in disadvantages, time delay ,no instant gratification , no touch before buying
No doubt some like to shop, but what percentage of shopping is fun and which is a bore?? What would B&M or internet need to do to take bigger market share?, Which is more able to take on wrenching changes, Amazon or Macy’s?
And very long term as the population ages and gets fatter, the physical part of “shopping” gets ever harder.