I equate the internet sales and prices that can be found there, vrs even the big box stores such as Cabelas, in a similar and perhaps
direct comparison to what happened to my small ( under 6000 ) population " Hometown " after a Wallmart Superstore moved into town..
Gone are the 3 competeing grocery stores, the 4 pharmacies complete with soda and snack bars, that were pretty evenly spread down main street, as well as the privately owned Coast to Coast and two other small "mom and pop" hardware stores we had back all those years ago......
All that people see now, as they travel down main street to Wallmart, ( which is actually up on the hill on the out-skirts of town ) with it's it's "Lower Prices" and in many cases, lesser quality of goods and services, are used book stores, yuppie coffee shops, the occasional "New" book store with it's reading area, Y-fi, and built in starbucks to provide the coffee as you enjoy your book, lap top, or latest new magazine.
BTW, I have yet to see a good hunting, shooting or crossbow magazine on the magazine racks in any of the new places now that they display and practice the new "Political Correctness" as far as anti-hunting and private gun ownership are concerned. For it seems they, as well as our Government, want to provide only what in their eyes, is "Best for The Public". ( Regardless of our needs and wishes.)
Oh yes, then there are the thrift stores, and the Pawn Shop

( neither of wich we had before the big shift ). These last two types of business's may very well be a result of the of the many "living wage" jobs that main street used to provide but are no longer there ?
Growing up there in the 60's, I think I knew 50-75 % of the store owners and their empolyes names in those small stores and shops on main street....
On the 2-3 yearly trips home to visit or deer hunt now, I very rarely see nor recognize anyone by name ( and yes, it's possible it's related to my age ) as I too am forced to go "Up On the Hill" to also shop Wallmart and their now "not so lower prices" as the competition seems to have shriveled up and died a very painfull ( for most old timers at least ) death

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Just another sign of the times my friends.
Gene