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I often wonder what dystopian picture this will all create, 10 years hence, of the typical 'consumer' sitting in an ever-widening recliner (with one of the all too familiar TV mega-bums filling it); surgically implanted
smartphone/teleshopping chip ordering more goods for the cluttered home-and delivered by Amazon drone; whilst all other huge edible provisions are delivered to the widened door by Tesco.
Who will be going to work, and doing what? if we're all going to be product-consuming blobs.
My chair is not overtaxed, incidentally, by an expanding derrier. Yet
I still think that George Orwell (1984) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) had some amazing insights into the future of Homo not-so-Sapiens

Good morning,
This is a global issue. We lost Artistic Hobbies in Texas a few years back. It was an Internet\Mortar and Brick shop and seemed to be doing great guns all the time. Then Blink!, it was gone. Taigen in Florida is still here but they seem to be an Online Sales only outfit. I have noticed that the more successful small shops here in the States have an online presence now with the owners doing videos on How-Tos for building, painting, etc. Everything Model related and all roads lead to the Web.
regards,
Painless

My local RC shop that went recently, were involved with the building of the 1/4 scale Lancaster replica used in the Dam Busters, along with many other large scale replica models for films and tv. Sadly new filming tech took that portion of their business away.

Edit: not the original 1955 film lol

Extra edit; now I'm at a loss, I've done a big search, I know the 1/4 scale Lancaster was built for a film or tv series, I would have put money on it being a Dam Busters one, now I can't find anything, so I'm doubting myself. And can't think of any other films that may have used this model
Any ideas anyone? Now the shop has gone, I can't ask them very frustrating.

PainlessWolf wrote:Good morning,
This is a global issue. We lost Artistic Hobbies in Texas a few years back. It was an Internet\Mortar and Brick shop and seemed to be doing great guns all the time. Then Blink!, it was gone. Taigen in Florida is still here but they seem to be an Online Sales only outfit. I have noticed that the more successful small shops here in the States have an online presence now with the owners doing videos on How-Tos for building, painting, etc. Everything Model related and all roads lead to the Web.
regards,
Painless

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Hi, Painless
Yes, truly a notable loss. Luckily, some of their excellent 'how to' guides still appear on the AH Internet page.
Regards,
Roy

rochesb wrote:It's a vicious circle; as stores close, you have less choice so you are obliged to go further afield or shop online, which leads to more local shops closing & on it goes. All there will be left soon will be charity shops, coffee shops & cheap shoe shops.....

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That will be Nail bars, tattoo parlours, and tanning suites that offer vanity- based services, which can't have much of an online delivery presence

Don’t forget the Turkish barbers on every corner


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I also think the continuous subliminal messaging doesn’t help ....


Cheers
Wayne


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midlife306 wrote:Don’t forget the Turkish barbers on every corner


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Mustapha Sweeney's shop?

However.....

IF the web brings to us expertise and goods we previously didn't have access to, suppliers that specialise in the things we want, that's not so bad, is it? I was thinking of businesses like Dave & Julie's (there are others too!) who really do pamper us.

My two local quality model shops will get me items they don't carry if l can give them.a lead but they don't have any specialist tank experience that l can call on - one caters for the model railway fraternity and the other tries to cater for all but can't do so in any real depth, they only have a few HL tanks at full price.

Maybe remote shopping isn't as romantic as walking into a model shop but its been very good for the hobby, if not for the traditional shopkeeper?

General Jumbo01 wrote:However.....

IF the web brings to us expertise and goods we previously didn't have access to, suppliers that specialise in the things we want, that's not so bad, is it? I was thinking of businesses like Dave & Julie's (there are others too!) who really do pamper us.

My two local quality model shops will get me items they don't carry if l can give them.a lead but they don't have any specialist tank experience that l can call on - one caters for the model railway fraternity and the other tries to cater for all but can't do so in any real depth, they only have a few HL tanks at full price.

Maybe remote shopping isn't as romantic as walking into a model shop but its been very good for the hobby, if not for the traditional shopkeeper?

Agreed (especially about Forgebear and other niche online enterprises). The problems start for bespoke online model specialists, (whether shop-based, or not) when monsters like Amazon decide they'd like to muscle in with their own sources. Yes, smaller concerns can flog stuff through the Amazon marketplace, but Amazon's all-seeing eye (like Sauron's burning eye..or was it something else ) eventually sees another source of untaxable revenue, it pushes rival (Amazon) sources to the top of the search list...dropping the product price in the process. Just an observation. It's the unstoppable march of the dark forces of globalisation