Several things that are making it very difficult for retailers to compete with online sales are that business rates are higher for retail outlets compared to mailorder outlet warehouses & the government is reluctant to change this and many retail premises & retailers are owned by hedge funds whose only interest is how much they can enrich themselves & their investors, before they are getting past their sell by date (often due to zero investment to maximise profits) when they then slice & dice & offload it to the next tier down funds in their game of musical companies & this is repeated until the music stops & they lose part or all their investment along with a creditor bail-ins & government redundancy & underfunded pension liabilities funds (so they all suffer as well), until there is no value left within the business and it folds. Retailers seem to be more prone to this than other types of business. Add on to this the price of fuel & car parking charges & for many items these days it is cheaper to pay P&P or deliver fees.
Food is one of the more immune areas where many still like to select what they want, especially with fresh produce (although most online delivery sales make a loss due to human pickers & deliver drivers), until AI fully automates distribution warehouses for this & drones are used for last mile delivery & then retailers won't be needed apart maybe for those that want to pay a monthly fee to use browsing warehouses for high priced items.
With rising minimum wages, you can see more pressure on fast food outlets, where they are going over to an Argos type system where you order & pay at a terminal, get a receipt & join the queue to pick up your order. Takeaways are being replaced by do all popular food, cooking warehouses and then last mile delivery where a delivery fee is mandatory.
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