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A January survey taken for Wells Fargo found that optimism among small-business owners hit the highest level in five years Susan Lindsey The reason for shopping malls are losing business has little to do with on online shopping that comprises less than 7% of all retail sales. The lobbyists backing the Marketplace Fairness Act (Internet Sales Tax) are not being honest with the new demographics that are operating, They are creating a straw man, depicting the small local business as weak and fragile (hence the astrotuf Stand with Main Street). In fact, selling on the Internet is helping small business grow - its an essential ingredient. And delivery to the front door is a growing reason why smaller local businesses are becoming successful. In short, having quick access to local residents is now working in small local business favors. Thats why the big box retailers are trying to situate themselves in neighborhood communities such as the Belmar District, Colorado, created six or seven years ago with their franchises located on the ground level of multistory family units. But the Belmar concept has taken a very long time to become occupied. People instead preferred to live in downtown neighborhoods were there is more unique, diverse local business shopping, smaller neighborhoods where people walk, know each other, and dont spend endless hours on the highway getting to work. Rather, they can hop on a bus and arrive at work while reading their ipad. The growing trend is for people to live is in neighborhoods in which mufti-family living exists in tandem with stores, parks, grocery stores, restaurants to which residents can walk, bicycle, use mass transportation. These enclaves are strongly emerging even in suburbia. I’ve discussed this with my customers. They state that many small quaint towns have been converted into tasteless shopping experiences dominated by big box name brands. They prefer to shop elsewhere and enjoy a better shopping experience. Clearly, big box retailers have much to gain by destroying smaller business operating in brick and mortar, through the Internet, or, as more commonly is happening, using both selling venues. If anything, the local business increasingly has an advantage over the strictly smaller Internet one. I predict that many Internet businesses will be operating out of local sites soon.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:11:30 +0000

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