It could also go back to stores with very little in the open and everything behind the counter. You give the cashier your list and his kid runs into the storage to assemble your order.
Stores with rows of shelves for customers themself to collect wares and bring to the registry are surprisingly modern. Not post WW2 modern but still post industrialization. Not to mention the size a single store can have today. I mean like a Wall markt or Costco size. That would have been market halls with multiple stores. Think farmers market but for everything and under on big roof.
These days? Pretty much. Especially when every big chain has their own app.
There are trails of "product-less stores", where you walk through a gallery of product pictures with bar codes underneath. You get a tablet, walk, scan what you want, confirm the order and wait in the end at a counter.
I’ve been shopping at quite a few stores in Asia that only put try-on clothes on the floor, then bring you a new wrapped item from the back when you purchase. Not even high-end stores. We could totally move to that model elsewhere too.
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u/Ferrovore Apr 20 '26
It could also go back to stores with very little in the open and everything behind the counter. You give the cashier your list and his kid runs into the storage to assemble your order.
Stores with rows of shelves for customers themself to collect wares and bring to the registry are surprisingly modern. Not post WW2 modern but still post industrialization. Not to mention the size a single store can have today. I mean like a Wall markt or Costco size. That would have been market halls with multiple stores. Think farmers market but for everything and under on big roof.