They have huge overhead and if you push customers away and have a lot of bills to pay it's not a good thing.
They have declined slowly for a lot of years.
This is in large part them helping the internet kill them.
It's also vendors who will sell the exact same goods to online e-tailers and drop ship it to the customer directly from the factory.
You and I, if we had a bit of money and some time where we didn't have to earn to get things established, can start a high end outdoor furniture store or a clothing store or a bunch of other things and never leave our house, never have inventory and sleep in until 10 am. Manufacturers think it brings them "extra" business but it doesn't it just shifts who is selling it from one place to another. Brick and mortar to online. Vendors are as much to blame for retail death as the internet.
Different than farming I bet LOL.
