Apple sells high-margin products that are typically priced the same (or roughly so) everywhere - I don't know that there are interesting lessons for all industr

Apple sells high-margin products that are typically priced the same (or roughly so) everywhere - I don't know that there are interesting lessons for all industries to learn here. Wasn't Ron Johnson's attempt to take some of those lessons to JC Penney pretty disastrous? Everyone always has the same ideas when retailer struggles come up, and a lot of the ideas would undoubtedly make many stores more pleasant to visit. But people still buy based on cost, and that makes it hard to compete with a company who has a much lower cost model than a physical retail store and has much larger scale. I don't think retailers will stop the bleeding and start implementing some of these ideas until they can figure out how to solve the showrooming problem. They may never do so, and physical retail in most categories will be a distant memory for most of us.