Internet Christmas shopping will hit “brick and mortar” stores
The Independent reports that UK retailers expect to lose £9bn of business to internet retailers like Amazon and eBay this Christmas. That is over 37% of their pre-Christmas business.
We will be part of the same trend in Germany – we went out two weekends ago to try and get our Christmas shopping done before the advent rush and spent twenty minutes cruising the local shopping mall carpark looking for a space to park. Not one space was free and the car park was full of others also looking for free spaces. So we decided it would be more convenient to shop on the internet and came home. We haven’t bought a single present in a physical store this year.
December 19th, 2005 at 12:12:35
Darf ich auch in Deutsch schreiben? Ich werde bei Gelegenheit auch versuchen, meine ersten Schritte in Englisch zu machen
Ich selbst habe auch ein schlechtes Gewissen, weil ich immer mehr im Internet einkaufe. Und zwar nicht in den Web-Präsenzen des lokal ansässigen Einzelhandels, sondern immer mehr bei amazon oder wenigstens bei langjährigen Versandhandelshäusern (kleiner Tipp: http://www.manufactum.de). Ich werde es auf meine Liste des schlechten Gewissens setzen. Was nutzen Bioeier und Mülltrennen, wenn man in solchen Dingen nicht konsequent handelt?
Gruß, Martin.
December 20th, 2005 at 18:12:05
Hi Martin, German is fine. Yes I agree we should support local firms and we do prefer to do physical shopping in Bad Homburg or other local towns. And we don’t mind paying a bit more to support the local shops, but I do want to be able to park at the shops when I get there!
BTW: We agree – Manufactum is an excellent company. We really enjoy browsing through their catalogue, there are so many great things in it that you don’t find in the shops any more. Recommended to readers who haven’t come across them before.
(And I had already noticed (I saw the hits from your site in our referrer’s list) that you’ve implemented WordPress – I like the cartoons!)