Still on the mind numbing trip for shopping – I am thinking can governments give a deadline for transitioning out offline shopping.
Offline shopping should be banned as compared to online shopping because-
1) It leads to lots of needless inventory so that huge stores do not look empty. The excess inventory benefits the manufacturers ( mostly Chinese) and hurts the retailer ( mostly local).
2) Demand prediction is obviously worse so it will lead to spare inventory anyways.
3) It encourages excess debt consumption.
Now people might want to sit up and say that both 1) consumption and 2) retail sector jobs are good for the economy.I agree transitionally this will lead to job cuts .But customers would be better off and retailers would save huge costs ( no more land for huge malls)
This is an ideal solution for Asian countries like India that can simply leapfrog from Mom and Pop stores to internet marketing malls than go in for the epensive intermediates of big offline malls. Though the Chinese may not be so happy it ultimately could lead to huge benefits to the West as well it would create huge jobs in the online space.
And yes bars and resteraunts would still be offline. You can not make dining out as an online experience —
DECISION STATS 