IN OUR VIEW | Online to Offline: Amazon sees future in brick-and-mortar - NewsBreak

Many readers are old enough to recall when shopping meant a trip to a local store or, perhaps, an order through the U.S. mail from a catalog concern. Then came the internet. Online-only retailers sprang up like wildfire while traditional brick-and-mortar stores tried to keep up. Some traditional retailers were able to do so and thrive. Other have declined and even gone out of business.