The growth and acceptance of buying physical items online has give the offline shopping a great pressure and challenge, especially during the recent pandemic period.
As we all know, it becomes very popular to buy cloths online. But It
was very rare if you heard someone bought vegetable and meat online before.
However, nowadays such type of shopping also becomes very popular.
The offline business becomes more and more challenges due to the
drastic growth of E-commerce platform.
One of the areas that was hurt badly is probably the bookstore
business.
Recently, The Strand Bookstore, a landmark of literary New York, is in serious trouble, appealing for customers to help it
stave off closure amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Founded in 1927, the Strand Bookstore
has survived for 93 years over the Great Depression, two world wars, big box
bookstores, ebooks and online behemoths. The Strand Bookstore are the last of
the 48 bookstores still standing from 4th Avenue’s famous Book Row but now is struggling
of business continuations.
Well, given the invention of the
vaccine, the coronavirus may be well controlled soon, but does it mean that the
offline business such as Strand Bookstore would turn around to continues its prosperity
of the old days? What is the future of the online store given the rapid growth
of E-commerce? Is it possible that the offline shopping would eventually be disappeared?
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