Will Traditional High Street Clothes Retailers Be Replaced by Online Shops?
High street shops have a sizeable new competitor – the online store. The traditional store is becoming threatened by the diversity and low overheads that online retailers enjoy. This article will look at the strengths and weaknesses of both retailing methodologies and ask if the new technology answer will ever replace the established option. Clothes retailing has always had its place on the high streets and shopping centres around the country, they make up some of the most famous shop brand names in the whole of retailing. The fundamental point about clothes retailing is that customers like to see the goods they are considering purchasing. This does also apply to other goods retailing, but for clothes there is an element of personal judgment used when evaluating if clothes will suit or fit properly. The issue over different manufacturers sizing guides not being reliably the same also means that customers often don’t trust that a ‘plus size 20’ from one company will be the same as a ‘pl
