A Future For Retailing?

Retail Futures develops profitable new business channels through eCommerce

Infinitely less expensive than hiring a professional 'think tank', the High Street bookshop provides an accurate pointer to the way we think, the way we entertain ourselves and the way we conduct business. Trends in key areas of everyday life are reflected by the growth in the number of books on a given subject, and the number of new books is in turn reflected in the shelf space allocated. On that criterion, the Internet is assuming enormous proportions in the mindset of the nation. Where once there were just a few books on the Internet of Acadæme, the 'serious' booksellers carry perhaps a dozen shelves on every aspect of the Internet.