What Businesses will Disappear?

Well, As I see it one of the possibles is the USPS . I mean with so much being done on-line , shopping and all .... not much left for the mailman to deliver ... [junk-mail ?]

Even my retirement system is [buggin'] me to switch to electronic deposit of my pension.

We have already lost one bank, all accounts moved to one 5 miles away, and they have no safe-deposit boxes ?
 

we have already lost restaurants and various chain stores in kansas over the past 5 yrs.
i think in the near future the malls are gonna go by the wayside with the way prices are going.
here we can buy computers and stuff in store but there's no tech stores to take anything to in order to get it fixed.

our radio shack is gone. it got replaced with a hooka shop.
 
rgp said:
Well, As I see it one of the possibles is the USPS . I mean with so much being done on-line , shopping and all .... not much left for the mailman to deliver ... [junk-mail ?]

Even my retirement system is [buggin'] me to switch to electronic deposit of my pension.

We have already lost one bank, all accounts moved to one 5 miles away, and they have no safe-deposit boxes ?
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junk mail and packages. if things go my way i likely won't need many stamps in the near future either.
 

Fritz said:
we have already lost restaurants and various chain stores in kansas over the past 5 yrs.
i think in the near future the malls are gonna go by the wayside with the way prices are going.
here we can buy computers and stuff in store but there's no tech stores to take anything to in order to get it fixed.

our radio shack is gone. it got replaced with a hooka shop.
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Malls have been done for some time. In fact, physical shopping of any kind is already on life support. Physical stores will, at best, become showrooms. They simply cannot compete on price. Along with that, jobs associated with it will go.

Malls inside residential zones will change over to residential.

Restaurants will be the next thing to go. Eating out will move upmarket. Food for the masses will move to delivery.
 
VaughanJB said:
Malls have been done for some time. In fact, physical shopping of any kind is already on life support. Physical stores will, at best, become showrooms. They simply cannot compete on price. Along with that, jobs associated with it will go.

Malls inside residential zones will change over to residential.

Restaurants will be the next thing to go. Eating out will move upmarket. Food for the masses will move to delivery.
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our mall is somehow still afloat but many of the stores inside are closed.
 
Fritz said:
i'm sorry i don't get the joke.
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White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane


Lyrics

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
He called Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
 
I expect the fad for Vape shops will die out. There seems to be one on every corner now. But maybe that’s just my area. There’s also a Title Loan shop on every corner. If you can believe the internet, newer generations are foregoing learning to drive and owning a car.

I can remember when stores that totally revolved around the buying and selling of sports cards were common. That’s another fad that seems to have run its course. Or maybe it has also moved to online platforms.
 
MountainRa said:
I expect the fad for Vape shops will die out. There seems to be one on every corner now. But maybe that’s just my area. There’s also a Title Loan shop on every corner. If you can believe the internet, newer generations are foregoing learning to drive and owning a car.

I can remember when stores that totally revolved around the buying and selling of sports cards were common. That’s another fad that seems to have run its course. Or maybe it has also moved to online platforms.
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that and coffee shops ie starbucks and many others
 
outlander said:
I'm a robot shopper. I use my list which is organized to match my walking path. Efficiently grab each item without deviation and get the hell out as quickly as possible. ;)
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We're much the same, especially with Lidl where the layout rarely changes. Tesco, on the other hand, keeps moving things around and shopping takes a lot longer than it should. I'm always on the lookout for bargains, but Tesco 'bargains' are often not much less than full price.
 
Flarbalard said:
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane


Lyrics

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
He called Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head
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Who the hell writes that crap ? How in hell could that ever be in someone's mind to become a song ?
 
Programming(Coding) jobs are likely to be mostly replaced by AI in the near future, IMO. Instead a fewer number of programmers will likely be guiding AI tools to make programs.
 
Gardenlover said:
Online orders have a lot less theft, that has to increase companies profit margins. Less locations as well.
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VaughanJB said:
Not exactly. Did you know 26% of clothes bought online are returned? That's a huge amount. Let alone all the other online fraud that happens.
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Two major profit sucks for online and brick & mortar retailers: shoplifting and returns. To limit theft and the godawful mess customers make while shopping, we never allowed customers unfettered access to our products..

Serial returners who got their jollies and "bracket orderers"? Ugh... (A bracket orderer buys heavily, including several sizes of the same thing, often in multiple colors, intending to return most of them.)

Fortunately, we tracked our customers for their convenience and ours (they'd forget their kids' sizes from one order to the next and would ask if we could look it up), so return patterns became obvious.

Next time they came in, we'd tell them that due to excessive returns, future returns were subject to a 25% restocking fee and would stamp their orders thusly. They'd squawk, but it stopped that nonsense.

Amazon and other online retailers identify, monitor, restrict (or close) accounts of serial returners.
 
I'm less surprised to see many chain drug store outlets closing than I am at how long it took for that to happen.

It got to the point where these stores were popping up like mushrooms and were nearly always empty of customers. A while back it was the same thing with big box office stores.

Fast food outlets may soon find themselves in a similar pickle as their prices go up at the same time people's wallets thin down.
 
Jules said:
In your opinion, what businesses might disappear in the near future? Some we might have thought would last forever.
- These are just some that I’ve thought about when I went past them.
- Tech and electronic stores? I can’t imagine buying a TV without looking at the various models. Same with a computer.
- Cell phone stores seem to do a booming business. I think they’ll last.
- Fabric stores - my DD quilts and an avid supporter. I know Joanne’s closed in the US.
- Dollar type stores keeping popping up everywhere and they’re busy.
- Some of these places have a large footprint. That would be a heavy expense.
- Grocery stores. They do seem to be encouraging us to order online and pickup.
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It's an interesting thought and jobs like, the 'Coal man', the 'Bus conductor', the 'Milk man', the 'Post man' (daily deliveries) and the 'News 'Paper' industry were all jobs that were around when I was growing up, - and all of which have either gone, reduced or significantly changed.
  • So, ''One never can tell"
The advantages that IT bring with it are tempered with balancing the financial sheets, - Manufacturing industries have been replaced with Service industries.
The fact that one does not have to leave the house to order food, appliances, receive communication, be entertained ... etc. means that unless things change in the way we live our lives - nothing is 'off-limits
 
I don't know how many times I have wanted to buy something not a real popular item and look at Walmart app to
find it and it says No Pickup at this location, Not Available in store. Seems it's more and more items that I used to be to just go get myself.
Sort of feel like they are nudging me into the delivery only thing.
 

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