[Jenn]

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"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in message

.... saddened by the disappearance of record/cd stores?

Tower looks like it's going down, Borders and B&N are
shrinking music sections, and on and on. It's pretty
clear that we are going more and more to online ordering
and then downloading only. Is anyone else bummed about
this?

No, because I have enough abstract reasoning and patience to be good with
buying pre-recorded media online.

So do I, but it's beside the point.


We used to have two brick-and-mortar media stores in walking distance. The
big chain was just plain a waste, and the little chain had great people but
their stock was very limited compared to what's available online.

If I'm going to special order the product anyhow, its better for me to
manage the transaction myself online, and have it delivered to my door as
opposed to going back to the store.

The internet and UPS/FedEx/USPS pretty well killed or will just about any
business based on discretiionary purchases and items that ship well.

What will our downtowns look like in 10 years, I wonder.


That means BTW that Borders and B&N have their days numbered in the small
integers. I walk to the nearby B&N for the experience, not because I'm
serious about buying a certain book. I buy that certain book from Amazon.

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