I hope stores don't go away.

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I like going out to stores. I like being able to see and feel what I am buying.

don't worry, it won't happen.

I agree, there are some advantages to offline shopping. Being able to see in real life what I'm purchasing, not having to wait for weeks for my purchase to arrive, and not having to pay insanely high prices for a "collector's item" when they're expensive enough offline. In fact most of the time it's the only thing that gets me out of my apartment.

I also like going in and out of stores. I like the gratification of getting something right away.

Some things like cold & perishable groceries need to be bought in stores. People like to compare the shape & sizes & colors of hardware things like screws & brackets & knobs. People like to try on clothing too. For example I wear 2XL tShirts because they shrink in the wash & I like em really lose. My girlfriend bought me a pack of 2XLs by a different brand & they were so tight I was worried I'd rip em.

Me too, I hope there are always bricks-and-mortar stores. I like going to stores and being able to feel and touch and assess what I'm buying.

I don't love the experience of the crowds and noise. But I still like stores and shopping in them.

Online shopping for certain things is no substitute for getting to see and touch something "in person."

I agree with Kip , it ain't gonna happen in our lifetime

Yep, unless I already know what it is, such as a model kit or paint or tool, connecting with it in person is preferable to me.
I do not buy clothes on line.

Well realistically it probably is a bit of both, there's no denying. Austerity and the 2008 crash would have certainly played a part.

But internet shopping is almost certainly the rest of it. When you can make a major purchase at 2am in your pajamas, from the comfort of home, it's very tempting to just do that for as many items as is practicable.

I know that I have started to find things on the internet and buy them that I used to unfailingly go out to a real store to buy. And I still love real stores -- but the convenience of the internet has tempted me away, and I've become part of the problem of real stores trying to hold onto their shoppers.

Stores are alive and well here, with a lot of new ones in development. It is exciting to see.

Shops are replacing human worked tills with self tills. In some shops there are no staff tills at all. I had to walk out of a store today because of it, it was obviously an overreaction on my part, but I really don't like them.

I have a love-hate relationship with those self-service checkouts.

On the one hand, they are infuriating because some error always seems to happen even when I think I'm doing everything the way you're supposed to. So a real person winds up needing to coming over and enter a code.

I find the machines annoying to deal with. If you even redistribute things in the bag while checking out, the weight sensor thinks there's a problem.

On the other hand, I like that I don't have to interact with a human ( as long as an error doesn't occur and someone has to come over anyway).

I like how if I'm not in the mood to even look someone in the eye or say hello, it's just me and a machine and I can checkout and go.