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Generic Brad

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5. There's room for both

Reply to FLPanhandle (Reply #4)

Sun May 21, 2017, 10:05 AM

May 2017

Retail does not have to be one or the other proposition for consumers. Some of us prefer human interaction and seeing the goods we are buying in person before we buy. Others prefer private experience.

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A jobs threat worse than mass store closures could fire more than 7 million retail workers [View all] yallerdawg May 2017 OP

I refuse to use self check out. I asked a worker in a Walmart sinkingfeeling May 2017 #1

Back in the '80's, had a similiar feeling about technology. yallerdawg May 2017 #3

In the very near future people without work will be offering to do CK_John May 2017 #7

Afraid not. I have no worries about income and hope to be living in an sinkingfeeling May 2017 #8

Sounds like a dream. I would love to live that kind of lifestyle. smirkymonkey May 2017 #13

Might be Burdoran, County Donegal. sinkingfeeling May 2017 #14

Looks like a beautiful place! smirkymonkey May 2017 #15

Not a surfer and will only spend summers in Ireland. Looking at southern sinkingfeeling May 2017 #18

I'm envious - That sounds like my dream life! smirkymonkey May 2017 #20

We sort of live that way now...in Washington state SoCalDem May 2017 #16

That's how I want to live the rest of my life when I'm not traveling to see as sinkingfeeling May 2017 #17

Yay, capitalism! Comforting the comfortable and afflicting the KingCharlemagne May 2017 #2

It's not a popular opinion here, but I prefer technology to interacting with people FLPanhandle May 2017 #4

There's room for both Generic Brad May 2017 #5

What 'the bosses' have to understand is... yallerdawg May 2017 #6

Makes me feel good about shopping at Costco lostnfound May 2017 #9

Between the retail apocalypse and automation things are looking grim Calculating May 2017 #10

And damn those EVIL horseless carriages putting those buggy whip makers out of work!!!!! Foamfollower May 2017 #11

Better have a skill Johnny2X2X May 2017 #12

Profits start with demand. Demand requires purchasing power. Hortensis May 2017 #19