> Today, shopping while sitting in a comfy chair instead of aimlessly wandering around a store is becoming second nature to a lot of us This system however was

> Today, shopping while sitting in a comfy chair instead of aimlessly wandering around a store is becoming second nature to a lot of us This system however was a store that you had to go to in order to look at pictures of products (that you couldn't actually touch, try on or take with you like in a real store) - so it's actually the worst of both worlds. Of course it was a solution for shopping in remote places (hence Canada), but so was the (by that time already "good old") mail order catalog, which you could use in the comfort of your own home. Those were later updated with color pictures and telephone ordering, so they were as good as this system and in some ways better.