Online shopping is the future, good or bad!

The economic crash that we are all struggling with over the past few years has brought to light some issues with shopping online and traditional store shopping. It is clear that more and more people are shopping online rather than store shopping. In fact a number of large store chains are finding it difficult to stay open with some already closing their doors. The reason being that without store sales the company can not pay its rent or staff. Arguably money is tight and people are spending more carefully, but when a store closes staff no longer have paid jobs, nor money to spend. For those with money and no store you tend to shop where you can... online!

Is this a sign of the times.

If you are in sales, are you concerned about losing your job?  Afterall it would be more profitable for a struggling company if it did not have to pay rental overheads and sales staff.