These days it seems that I find it harder and harder to get motivated to go to a store to buy things. As often as not, I'll set out to find some product and when I get to the store, which 'should' have it, it doesn't. So I end up going to another store and then another. So lately I've become an online shopper. Last Sunday I placed three orders from three different stores in about an hour and spent about $250. I always dread the 'delivery charge.' I even went ahead and bought an extra book on Amazon just so I wouldn't have to pay for delivery. The problem is that although having something delivered is actually providing me a valuable service, I don't yet see it that way. I saved the time of having to go to the stores that was freed up to do other things. I saved gas not driving to the stores and with gas prices these days, that little shopping spree would have been $5-$10 in gas.
But I do worry, what are stores will be left in the future? Will everyone eventually move to the Internet or will that siren lure of going store to store still motivate people to get out in the world and shop?
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