Dallas Morning News item - December 3, 2005
Bricks-and-Mortar vs. The Internet (edited in print)Part One: What would make you do more of your holiday shopping online instead of in stores?
I already prefer to shop online. Avoids the rigmarole associated with shopping rituals - the dressing, the driving, the parking, rude employees, stale food courts, the checkout lines, and then the inevitable fatigue of your friends telling you that they bought the same item cheaper somewhere else!! Oh the pleasure of being a couch potato shopper. Malls are great places to people watch but pretty soon we will have Mall TV channels that we can watch at home while we shop online - the best of both worlds.
Part Two: What would make you do more of your shopping in local stores instead of online or in other communities? Do you think about where your sales tax dollars are going before you shop?
Price triumphs over local loyalties. The emergence of Walmart shows how transient our loyalties were to the local family owned grocery or pharmacy. I think the recent proposals for a National Sales Tax will render these debates moot. All taxes should be allocated on a pro rata basis based on sales generated by residents of each county independent of the store they are derived from.
posted by Mahesh Shetty @ 7:50 AM
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