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Originally Posted by thewitt
If you are using my physical inventory, my retail space and my employees to decide whether you are going to buy an eBook from Amazon, then yes it relates perfectly.
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Your physical inventory is there because you're trying to sell it and make money, it's not there because customers need to use it. Your space is there because you need a place to put your inventory and your sales people are there to take money from customers.
Dont flip this around like you are there because customers need you. No, you need the customers.
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When you don't buy from me, I don't make any money. If I don't make any money, there is no capital to buy inventory, no cash to pay my rental, insurance and utility bills, and no cash to pay my employees.
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Sad day, but that's how businesses work. Answer to that is make yourself more competitive, have a unique thing nobody else is offering.
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The result is..... yes you guessed it. I go out of business, and you lose the ability to walk into my bookstore to check out books before you make your purchase online.
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Rare are the places where there's only one bookstore.
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Think of how YOU would react to this as the bookstore owner.
Would you open your doors wide to everyone who wants to come in and paw your books, only to have them all buy from an online retailer instead?
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Paw???? Dude have you heard of browsing or what??
With that kind of attitude of course the negativity is felt by customers if you're eyeing them up and watching their every move when they browse, excuse me I mean "paw" your books.
And yes I would open my store to everyone and I'd be super nice about it, because I think every person who enters my store can become a customer. If they had a positive experience in the store with friendly atmosphere and prices to match amazon or any other online shop people would come back and shop.
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How many millions in inventory do you think lines the shelves of a typical Books-a-million retail store?
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How is that relevant to this?
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If customers don't buy from retail stores, retails stores go away.
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No, the correct line of thinking is: if retail stores are not competitive, retail stores go away. As they should.