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>There are not many people that have an immediate need for... There are not many people that have an immediate need for any one particular item in a dry goods
by fnordfnordfnord 12y ago
>There are not many people that have an immediate need for...
There are not many people that have an immediate need for any one particular item in a dry goods store on any particular day. The same is true for other stores and was always true for nearly every item RS carried.
I think the arguments ITT boil down to: did the internet kill RS, or did RS finally succumb to its own poor management.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> There are not many people that have an immediate need for any one particular item in a dry goods store on any particular day. Small floor-plan dry goods stores aren't exactly a booming business, either. > I think the arguments ITT boil down to: did the internet kill RS, or did RS finally succumb to its own poor management. And the answer is "yes". (In longer form, the internet was a key factor in a shift in the retail market for the classes of goods RS sells whose nature RS's management was slow to recognize, and reacted to poorly.)
- fnordfnordfnord 12y agoI think we are pretty close to agreement now!