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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by Swizec on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:32PM (#15279794)
The web is great when you know exactly what you want to buy. Brick and mortar is great when you’re still deciding.

Web is very very far from solving the browsing problem. Sometimes I know I want <new toy> but have no idea what exactly I want. So you go to the store to look around.

Sometimes I also like to ask the sales associate, “I have so and so nephew, what should I get for them?”. Web still sucks at solving the librarian/curator/advicegiver problem.

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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by nhebb on Monday September 18, 2017 @05:35PM (#15279828)
> Web is very very far from solving the browsing problem.

I may be a rarity, but I still miss Blockbuster for this reason.

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Re:Toys ‘R’ Us Plans Bankruptcy Filing Amid Debt Struggle by khedoros1 on Monday September 18, 2017 @06:41PM (#15280331)
That's part of why I've got several shelves of DVDs. Browsing is enjoyable, and I was able to pick up a lot of movies cheaply when Blockbuster was going out of business.
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