The Death of Retail Is Overrated

> It’s why we still go to theaters to watch movies, concerts to listen to music, ballparks to see a game, casinos to place a bet, and restaurants to grab a bite.

Aren’t we doing less of all those things?

Theatres are in decline.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/business/media/movie-thea...

Live sports in person attendance numbers are in decline.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/nobodys-going-to-spo...

Casinos are in decline.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2014/...

Not sure about restaurants overall, but I know since DoorDash and UberEats I don’t go to them unless dragged.

I’m not convinced that the number of people who want those experiences is more than 50% of the population, whereas before retail, movies, etc were fairly universal.

sounds like he is trying to first convince himself. i dont think he succeeded.

retail is too expensive to be worth it for the bottom 50%.

for me personally, i need top 5% money before the retail experience would be worth its premium

of course, its laughable that i as an introvert techie think that others think similar

i thought with covid i'd finally become a 'mostly online' shopper, because of safety. But no. Online shopping is still not a natural paradigm in a world where deliveries take anywhere from a day to four weeks and offline shopping takes an hour to the store and back. or less. theres a place for online, but retail is still going to take 90% of my purchases.

(2018)

The death of Restoration Hardware and it’s tree-decimating, hernia-inducing catalogs cannot come soon enough as far as I am concerned.