Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon
by TulliusCicero on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:38PM
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> That problem was already solved by catalog and QVC.
This is like saying that playing video games over the internet is nothing new, because hey, people already played games over distance in the form of chess by mail.
Re:A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon
by oi23wei535oj on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:17PM
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Playing video games over the internet is nothing new, because hey, people been doing it for decades.
The problems in rural areas stem from lack of new job growth since 2008 implosion, and jobs with poor wages (and not enough of these even). Not gonna help people buy much online.
Logistics around literal access aren't the issue. It's the same old tune: financial access.
Putting a website up in place of a catalog doesn't solve that problem.