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This truly reminds me of all the whining several Australian retail multi-millionaires have been doing over the growth of online shopping. They are now demanding the Federal Government protect them from online shopping.
Gerry Harvey leads the charge. His most famous lines being online shopping is a fad that will never last and that online shopping was un-Australian. Australians should pay more he says, for the country.
He is a perfect example of a retail dinosaur who made his money by destroying smaller businesses and selling items with huge mark-ups and credit deals. Now, the consumer has better options that provide for better prices and deals.
Because those companies who did not innovate, such as Gerry Harvey's Harvey Norman retail stores, B&N, Waterstones and the late Borders chain of stores, they need to transfer the blame for their lack of foresight, lack of vision and failure to sense change to a company that HAS innovated.
Well dinosaurs, Amazon, with all the flaws included, is here to stay and that includes online retail sales. If you cannot innovate, fail to evolve, then you are extinct.
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