Comment by godelski
> Bricks and mortar stores cost money just to exist
> Bricks and mortar stores cost money just to exist
> Perhaps I'm missing something?
You are missing that I've talked about how there's more business value than direct sales. You can easily infer from here that this means "the value outweighs the costs". What costs would those be? I think we all know the location costs money as well as the people who work there. These costs are such a universal experience it only makes me wonder about you? Do you not have a job or employ people? Do you not rent or pay a mortgage? Watch the news? Be on HN? Did you ever have a parent that worked, rented, or bought property? Family? Friend? These costs are literally at the core of our economy that people become failure with them as young children.
Yes, you have to infer some things. I'll have to write so much more if the only message that can be conveyed is the direct literal translation of my words. Which I don't think you expect because you're using natural language and expecting me to do the same with you.
Because you said this:
> I've constantly wondered why this doesn't really exist.
and if you understand that real stores are more expensive to run than online stores, then the rest seems obvious?
Places like that did exist in the past - they were the places we had to go to buy things. Online prices are lower so people bought online instead and drove most of them out of business.
Perhaps I'm missing something?